Six years later, they’ve settled in—and found ways of creatively embracing each season. Each has its own traditions: In the summer, for instance, Przystup grows tomatoes in her garden, makes meals on a stone grill, swims and floats in the water, eats stuffed daylilies, picks flowers. But as summer turns to fall, her rituals grow cozier, moving indoors while also recognizing the beauty of the new chill in the air, the crisp frost on the leaves.
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Throughout the book, Przystup shares ways of infusing the seasons into her daily life and home with crafty decor, rituals, hosting, and more. There is flower-arrangement inspiration for all seasons, ways of bringing the wild outdoors in. Much of the book is about experiences: savoring the simple things we do that make each season unique.
“There is a really beautiful melancholy to fall,” Przystup tells Vogue. Letting go of summer isn’t easy, but that just underscores how helpful rituals can be. “Doing these things injects a certain amount of magic” into the hard transitions, the earlier sunsets, and the dipping temperatures, she says.
“There are really small things that you can do each season to sort of mark and celebrate the season, and I think we all do it just naturally,” Przystup adds. “There’s this really great moment when the first frost rolls through, where the sun is out and you wake up in the morning, and all the leaves on the ground are covered in frost. If you pick one up and twirl it in the light of the sun, it looks like it’s covered in crystals.”
