Season Shelf :: Late Summer

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).

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Kelli Ann Wilson

Kelli lives in rural New Hampshire with her husband Damian and their two children. She works as a writer, and in her free time enjoys reading, gardening, taking pictures, walking in the woods, and celebrating the seasons of nature and the feasts, festivals, and holy days of the Christian year. Kelli shares her family's everyday adventures at OurCommonHours.com.

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