under a maple

under a red maple, there was lots of beauty.

chestnuts

photograph by rinne allen

hazel

photograph by rinne allen

fallen leaves

photograph by rinne allen

geometric patterns

photograph by rebecca wood

migrations

photograph by rinne allen

local cotton

mandy and steve at 3 porch farm planted a crop of organic cotton this year. they planted a few white varieties, but also a brown one. both were beautiful, in the field and out. mandy said it was a fairly easy crop to tend...they planted it and let it be. i have learned more about organic cotton than i ever thought i would (see here and here) and love seeing it growing so close to home.

words & photographs by rinne allen

fall field

photograph by rinne allen

fall browns

for the thanksgiving table, we often gather fallen leaves from the yard and let them be the focus...here, i added in some store-bought mums. once their flowerheads are pulled from the stem they can scatter across the tabletop. quiet beauty...

arrangement and photographs by rinne allen

speckled light

photograph by rebecca wood

hickory leaves

photograph by rebecca wood

colorful fall leaves

as rinne mentioned in a previous post, i am obsessed with color field photos of fall leaf colors. i think one of my top ten favorite things is wet fall leaves on pavement. if i had the patience to paint these giant, i would. endless wonderful patterns, textures and colors that inspire so many ideas for so many things. i will go out again today if i can stand the cold!

words and photographs by rebecca wood

japanese maple

photograph by rinne allen

shoreline abstracts

i was lucky enough to celebrate my birthday in my favorite place, edisto island. october is so wonderful there that i feel like i've been hoodwinked all these years into going to the beach in the summer. we walked the wild beaches for hours, and took lots of beauty pics. here's a series of shoreline abstracts in the sand.

words and photographs by rebecca wood

fall colors

when i first met rebecca in 1995, she was making leaf arrangements similar to these...she would gather leaves of a similar shape or hue and make little compositions that filled the frame of her photographs. when i recently found myself surrounded by beautiful leaves, i decided to do the same...enjoy!

words & photographs by rinne allen

autumn pumpkins

photograph by rinne allen

fall beauties

this week, we rounded up of some of our favorite fall arrangements from years past...most of these were made by rinne, but there is one in here from mandy and one from rebecca, too...enjoy!

photographs by rinne allen

fall grasses

photograph by rinne allen

the last of the dahlias...for this year

i came home the other day to find a small bouquet of dahlias at our door from our friends who grow dahlias, the vickers...they were the last of this year's harvest before the frost came this weekend. i brought them into my studio and made this little arrangement with some dogwood leaves from along our street...such pretty colors...

words, arrangement, & photographs by rinne allen

fall field beauty

this time of year, i can be found driving around in the country...alot. i love the fall fields.

photographs by rinne allen