Breakfast In Grandmother's Garden

Taking advantage of the beautiful weather

and the flowers we have to sneak in a 

breakfast in my garden 

before everything

withers away.

Fresh fruit, croissants, butter and

jam make a simple breakfast 

for the garden.

I just love to eat out of doors during

these beautiful months of the year.

Not much time left!

There is something about a garden that reminds

me of my mother and my grandmother.

So even though this is in my garden, it is in honor

of all of the grandmothers in our lives

especially those who helped us learn to love 

gardens.

Roses are definitely a big part of

my memories of my grandmother's and

my mother's garden.  

Today beautiful red roses are

paired with blue hydrangeas for a 

vintage look on this table.

The sunlight dapples the tiny flower

arrangement on each plate.

These red and blue plates inspired the color combination

for the table today.

It also didn't hurt that I had the red and blue

flowers in my home already.

The simple arrangement sits in 

a vintage looking votive.

Red and white textured plates anchor the

flowered plate.

Homemade jam definitely reminds me

of my mother.  I remember many many hours

of preserving fruits and vegetables by my mother's side.

This is her Quaker Lace tablecloth.

A sterling silver berry spoon sits

in the raspberry jam, waiting to be

spread on the fresh croissants.

The rich colors of the berries echo the

colors of the flowers and the plates.

My parents always had a huge strawberry

patch and they also had blackberries in 

their garden.

The enormous berry spoon on the left belonged to

my grandmother.  It is one of my treasures.

This cute  dairy cow dish holds fresh butter for 

our breakfast.  I grew up in the dairy state.  In

Wisconsin for many years they weren't allowed

to sell margarine unless it was left white.  I remember

slipping across state lines

to buy margarine that was colored yellow.

(I felt like we were criminals, sneaking in yellow 

margarine!)  

 I definitely

  prefer the rich taste of real butter

for my breakfast.

Pearls also remind me of my

mother.  She had a beautiful 

string of real pearls.

Both my mother and my grandmother

on my dad's side loved beautiful things.

I definitely inherited that from them.

Everything is fading fast in my garden

and soon it will be time to pull it all up.

Before then, I will gather the grandchildren

to help me harvest some of the garden.

They love to cut the flowers and

pick the fruits and vegetables.

I make an effort to share my garden with 

my grandchildren.

I hope creating memories in the garden with

them will help them want to have

gardens of their own someday

where they can remember the times

they spent with Grandma in the garden.

Such a pretty color combination with the red and blue.

Even though I have lost both of my grandmothers

and my mother many many years ago,

 this pretty table

makes me think of them.

Make some memories with your loved ones.

I hope you enjoyed breakfast in my garden - 

Grandmother's Garden!

I will be posting this with

Wow Us Wednesday

Tablescape Thursday

Goblets - Costco (Christmas years ago)

White square plates - Home Goods

Blue and red salad plates - Home Goods

Flatware - Horchow

Red cake pedestal - Home Goods

Red square plates - Tai Pan

Cloche - Tai Pan

Votives - Home Goods

Cow butter dish - Puerta Vallarta

Red ruffled chargers - Gift from Joni

Large sterling berry spoon - my grandmother's

Two other sterling spoons - ebay