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It’s been a fairly quiet week making for good days to putter around the house. Time for a new tablescape for summer. I decided on a chicken theme with fern green chargers and napkins.

The bowls have roosters on the sides. These are mostly for salad in the summer, but a bowl of my Chilled Corn Crab Soup would be good too. Or ice cream after dinner!

Green napkins are held with white ceramic chicken rings. Every day flatware is used.

The centerpiece is my white ceramic bowl filled with a riot of silk flowers. The colors are matched ...

Our days have been warm and humid lately, just what the dahlias love. They shot up in just about 2 weeks and put out 5 blooms in short order in gorgeous red. The contrast in the golden centers would make a wonderful fabric collage, don’t you think?

Some years ago, I dug up all the orange daylilies and gave them away. How is it now that I have a whole new patch of them? These are not my favorite color, but they are persistent!

The prettier day lily, this plum color with a yellow throat and ruffed edge, began ...