Tabletop Zen

I always want to say, "and now for something completely different." (old Monty Python fan here)  This table is very different.  I am doing my best to copy Asian style in the garden tonight.  I have never been to Asia, although, I would love to go, but using my imagination this is what I came up with.  In a word simplicity captures it.  The beauty is in nature.  Crisp, clean white linen tablecloth, and napkin. Very little on the table.  

My centerpiece is very simple.  Only gravel to hold and anchor the candle and  the hurricane shade to keep it from blowing out.

Zen, as defined by the Urban Dictionary, is a total state of focus with mind and body.  A zen garden is created by taking gravel and raking it into patterns.  Here is a picture of one.

Image from scaredsites.com

This is a famous zen garden at a temple in Soami.  It is 15 stones in a small white bed of gravel.  This is called the "garden of emptiness."  The people here are meditating.

The china dinner plate, plain, simple, and white.  The salad plate only adorned with a blush of color and a spring blossoming tree.   

Dinner plate is Royal Worcester pattern Classic Platinum.
Salad Plate is Royal Stafford.

A fan because it is so hot.  

The goblets have a swirl that mimics water.  A plainer goblet with no pattern might have been a better choice.

The lanterns glowing in the crabapple tree.

There are so many ways to adorn you tabletop. Escaping to another culture was a fun way for me to create a table tonight.  Thanks for joining me.

I will join:

Centerpiece Wednesday at the Style Sisters

Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps on the Porch

Show and Tell Friday at My Romantic Home

My Favorite Things at Bargain Hunting and Chatting with Laurie

Vignette Friday at Color Outside the Lines