As the harvest comes on and the reaping begins
The farmer the fruit of the earth gathers in.
In mirth let us talk till the season be gone . . .
—From the traditional harvest song, “All of a Row”
It’s hard to believe that summer is on the wane already. The August shelf displays symbols of the year’s first harvests (Lammas / First Fruits / Feast of the Transfiguration) and some of my favorite August blooms.
I also felt like the shelf needed to feel a little more centered on the wall, so I created a watercolor bunting for each month of the year, based on Steiner’s ideas about the colors of the month and Goethe’s color wheel.
The flower fairies are Lotte Sievers-Hahn dollhouse dolls that I purchased from Heirloom Art Co and transformed into my own creations with felt and hot glue.
The art cards are (left to right, from the top): “Sommer” by Eva-Maria Ott-Heidmann, “Oktober” by Ruth Elsässer, “Zomer-muis (Summer Mouse)” by Marjan van Zeyl, “Christ in the Wheatfield” by Johannes Raphael Wehle, and “St Anne” by Piotr Stachiewicz (the last two I printed out myself from images I found online).
