Take inspiration from Hillary Munro’s beautiful new lifestyle book and the Mountain West. You’ll find seasonal inspiration with recipes and table settings for entertaining outdoors, along with DIY ideas for handcrafted gifts. Last but not least, you’ll be transported by the scenery of the beautiful Mountain West, captured by photographer Lisa Flood.
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I have a beautiful lifestyle book to share and giveaway:
Alpenglow: Outdoor Celebrations for Every Season
by Hillary Munro (Author), Lisa Flood (Photographer)
Alpenglow: Outdoor Celebrations for Every Season is filled with creative parties and fun country activities throughout the four seasons. The stories and scenes are set in the high mountain valley of Jackson Hole, Wyoming—but the gatherings and parties could take place anywhere.
Hillary Munro knows how to turn routine activities and yearly rituals into unique events, with delicious meals and take-home favors prepared with foods she grows and preserves and materials she forages in the woods.
Celebratory menus follow special times, like a cowgirl trail ride, a pasture fiesta with friends, a comfy tent camp-out with a spouse, wood chopping with family, foraging in the woods for craft materials, an ice fishing expedition, peony picking, and more.
The word ‘alpenglow’ is the magic hour when the sky turns shades of pink and orange not found on a color wheel, an experience that happens often in the mountains, regardless of the season, that fill your soul with a moment of joy.
The book is divided into five sections:
Winter: Season of Quiet
Spring: Season of Reawakening
Summer: Season of Casual
Fall: Season of Change
Handcrafted Gifts
“Winter is filled with the smell of wood smoke, wool blankets, and hearty stews. Spring restores possibilities, when the snow melts and garden beds are prepped, lighter color adds cheer to our plates, and the horses come home from winter pasture. Summer breathes freedom with a loose schedule and endless hours outside by rivers, with casual picnics and lemonade. Fall is a reflective time, when things slow down, we enjoy garden abundance, chop firewood, play backgammon, and fill the pantry with jars for winter.”
Handcrafted gifts for takeaway mementos or hostess gifts are made with natural ingredients or components that can be adapted to your taste, including infused oils, bath salts, mulling spices, floral teas, preserved lemons, citrus cooking salts, to make a few.
“Without question, food brings people together. Dragging a table to an unexpected location, such as a field or by a river, creates an atmosphere that guests will remember long after the meal is finished.”
“I look to nature for inspiration when planning any celebration, whether for a crowd or my family. Foraging on a hike or in the backyard is an easy and inexpensive way to incorporate the natural world at the table.”
A few recipes that caught my eye and tempted my taste buds were Pear and Bourbon Skillet Cake; Honey Panko Shrimp; Pasta Puttanesca; Apple Galette with Spiced Maple Syrup and Ricotta; Roasted Chicken Thighs with Shallots and Grapes; and Roasted Hazelnut and Milk Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie.
Every season has a list of rituals . . .
Among the rituals listed for fall are to carve a pumpkin and roast the seeds
and drink warm apple cider from a thermos.
Gibbs Smith Publisher has provided me a copy of Alpenglow to give away to one reader.
For a chance to win a copy, leave a comment telling me your favorite fall ritual.
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This giveaway is open to those living in the continental U.S. through midnight October 21st.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED, CONGRATULATIONS TO PATTI M!
Thank you to Gibbs Smith Publisher for providing a copy of Alpenglow for my review and giveaway.
Hillary Munro is an entertaining and craft expert, home cook, collector of cowboy boots, and loves to throw a party. She and her husband own a garden and home store, Graze, where she gets to use her creativity daily. She lives with her husband, two young children, two dogs, two horses, and a small flock of chickens. She lives in Jackson, Wyoming.
Lisa Flood, a writer and photographer, has been telling stories out West for over twenty-five years. The author of six western design and lifestyle books, her articles have appeared in Architectural Digest, House & Garden in London, Cowboys & Indians, House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Mountain Living, and others. She lives with her family (two dogs, a cat, two kids, and a husband) in Wilson, Wyoming.
“In Alpenglow, I invite you into my world of creatively celebrating the four seasons. I share authentic ways for setting an outdoor table in unexpected places, making things with your hands, and living an inspired life through stories, newfound traditions, family and a little magic.”
– Hillary Munro
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Oh, Mary, this looks like a lovely book! Maybe I should put it on my list for Santa to bring-lol. I just won one of your Halloween giveaways so I will decline entering this time. Thank you for your generosity and sharing your creativity with all your readers.
I truly am a “fall girl” . I love everything about this season. Decorating both inside and out is a ritual I’ve been doing for years. I guess if I had to put down in words what my favorite ritual would be I’d have to say waking up early and stepping outside with a cup of warm coffee. Nothing is better than holding a warm beverage in my hand and smelling the crisp and clean fall air. It’s the best.
What I love about fall is the coziness it brings, enjoying home and decorating. I also love the crisp air.
Living here in Florida, I look forward to the cooler and all the fall festivals!!
My favorite fall ritual is decorating with twigs & berries and gourds & pumpkins, then sitting with a huge mug of hot spiced tea to enjoy the warm, cozy feeling of it all.
Walking on a crisp overcast day with leaves falling around me and coming home to a cup of hot chocolate
Our family had a tradition of gathering hazelnuts, and black walnuts both of which are dried and eventually cracked for adding to our Holiday cookies.
Fall is my favorite season. I love everything about it — the weather, the colors, fall foods and fall festivals but Halloween is my “almost favorite” holiday, close behind Christmas.
My favorite fall tradition is for Halloween night. We have ghost burgers. I saw them in the newspaper when I lived in California in the late 70’s and made them for my kids until they left home. I have since lived in three other states and never seen them any where else. Now I am 82 and my husband still makes them for me for dinner while I am passing out candy to the trick or treaters. You just make a paper pattern in the shape of a ghost and trace around it with a knife on a slice of American cheese, making holes for the eyes and mouth. Pop the ghost on a hot beef patty and you have ghost burgers. It wouldn’t be Halloween without them at our house.
First of all what a gorgeous book! Thank you for sharing. My favorite fall ritual is taking a walk and letting the leaves crunch under my feet.
Reminds me of the Saturday afternoons at my Grandmothers house,
Fall is such a beautiful season, colors of leaves, bonfires, and hayrides around our rural countryside are all favorites.
Mary, thank you in sharing this beautiful book. How living that lifestyle brings back memories for me. I too lived the lifestyle that was rugged and tough in the Sierra Mountains in California. Where I chopped wood from the forest, picked fruit out of the orchards, home garden, canning. Hard work but so rewarding. It was a beautiful life indeed.
Gorgeous book from the previews! Our favorite fall thing is day trippin’ WV to see the changing leaves, get outdoors for a hike, and share our state’s beauty. The locals and travelers are always fun to mix and mingle with for food and conversation.
Have a great week, amd good luck to your readers!
Oops, sorry Linda, for posting my comment as a reply to yours!
What a fabulous book! My favorite part of fall is, the turning leaves, and homemade soup!
Autumn is truly my favorite season. I love foraging nature for my decor and planning my annual Soup of the Week menu. The book is a feast for the eyes.
What a wonderful giveaway! I guess I have to say that my favorite Fall ritual would be decorating the porch with pumpkins and mums. Then it’s switching out my wardrobe for “sweater weather.” Living in the northeast, though, it’s glorious to watch the changing colors. I guess it’s hard to pick just which ritual is my favorite!
Oh, Mary, this is a beautiful new book. I’m so happy to know about Alpenglow. Hillary Munro and Lisa Flood have produced a gorgeous offering for us who are passionate about such settings. Thank you for sharing. I’ve added this to my Christmas shopping list for several friends.
Oh my, what a totally charming, beautiful book. The photographs are captivating. I just fell in love with it through your blog and can imagine it in person! I would love to own this book. Thank you, Mary for your lovely blog, one of my favorites.
It sounds weird, but my favorite fall ritual is getting out the fall table cloths and dishes. My kids are grown and live out of state, but as I pull the favorite table cloth or table runners memories of when they were little and Holiday meals and celebrations come flooding back. It is just wonderful! Hope you enjoy all of your upcoming Holiday happenings.
Here in upstate NY apple picking and apple baking are our favorite Fall activities. The book is beautiful. Lynn
We always look forward to Apple picking with our 5 grandchildren, and family photos before Thanksgiving for our annual Christmas card.
What a beautiful book Mary, it sounds like it is full of great ideas and good recipes. Fall is such a special time of year, especially October, one of my favorite months.
Jenna
What a gorgeous book. I live in the northeast but spent a summer in Colorado as a child, and love seeing the western terrain in this book. My favorite Fall time ritual here in Vermont, besides “leaf-peeping” is making apple cider donuts using my granny’s recipe and sharing them with friends.
My favorite Fall ritual is a simple walk in a deciduous forest where I can smell the earthy scent of fallen leaves.
The photos in this book warm my heart. Fall is my favorite time of the year as I love the beautiful colors of the turning leaves and decorating with pumpkins. My favorite thing about fall would have to be a walk in the woods. The silent crispness of the air and the smell of the woods with leaf covered trails refreshes my soul. There is nothing like it.
I have a maple tree in my city backyard and each year I picked one leaf to carry inside to just make me happy. I have to say just one or I would have branches of orange, peach, red and gold inside!
Good morning, Mary! Thanks for sharing this beautiful book with us. I love a good decorating and entertaining book. Fall is such a wonderful time of year. Wishing you a wonderful day, sweet friend!
Mary…gorgeous book! My husband and I have been joking for years about moving to Montana or Wyoming…ok I haven’t been joking and he just smiles when I say that. I love fall so it’s hard to pick a favorite ritual..I love to decorate ( going to get our pumpkins shortly) for Halloween and fall but I think my favorite is sitting outside, reading a book, snuggled in a blanket, drinking warm apple cider. Have a Fabulous Fall!
Fall is my absolute favorite season and it’s so hard to narrow down to one Fall activity. I love a Fall morning with crisp, chilly air and a cup of hot coffee, mist rising off the lakes and rivers, leaves vibrant in the cool morning air. I love football tailgates, fall festivals, apple dumplings, and Jack-o-lantern art. This book is beautiful and I love Wyoming in the summer. Not sure a Southern girl like me could survive a winter there.
Mary, What a beautiful book! A milk chocolate skillet cookie is the best! Hot chocolate with marshmallows is a fall favorite of ours. I’m going to look for the ghost marshmallows to use this year. We’re going to feel like fall this week. Happy Monday! Clara❤️
Fall Favorite: Lining up many of my turkey platters on the mantel and tossing acorns and pine cones where they rest until Thanksgiving.
After baking anything pumpkin I leave the oven door ajar to let the extra warmth and scent cozy up my kitchen.
I also sent the comment about turkey platters on my mantel.
I love to take a hike on one of the trails in our nearby Shawnee National Forest located in Southern Illinois.
The book looks lovely. What I like about fall is being able to wrap up in a throw again.
The bringing out all kinds of coziness throughout my house, baking anything with cinnamon, and traveling to see the beautiful colors of Fall.
Autumn is my favorite season. I love the weather change, the gorgeous colors, the lifting of my spirits during these months. My favorite ritual is making chilis and soups that warm my heart as well as my body. I am blessed!
I love decorating with pumpkins, leaves and fall colors as well as adding the Halloween and turkey decor for the holidays
I live in Arizona, now. But, I grew up in Michigan, so my Fall rituals are quite different. I decorate the inside of my home with pumpkins and fall foliage that I purchase from Michael’s or Hobby Lobby. I burn scented candles and reminisce about the season I miss.
What a beautiful book and seeing the preview brings to mind so many Fall traditions – baking Fall favorite recipes passed down from my momma, sitting around the fireplace wrapped in a blanket and cozy pjs. One of my favorite traditions is filling a thermos with homemade hot chocolate, packing a basket of snacks to take on a scenic drive with no destination in mind and getting lost in the country backroads enjoying the “leaf peeping”. Basking in the cool crisp air, sitting around a campfire and roasting marshmallows. It wouldn’t be complete without my favorite hoodie, wool socks and boots.
Love the book, I am blessed to live out west. Favorite fall activities, college football, walks in the woods, more time for quilting and baking. Thank you Mary
Mary, Jackson Hole is one of our favorite destinations! Its beauty is unbelievable! We love the mountains and I will be ordering this book for sure!
So excited to see this book! I have so many wonderful fall traditions but probably my favorite is visiting Apple Hill in the beautiful Sierra’s!
I love serving hot spiced cider at a gathering and decorating my home with natural fall bounty such as pumpkins, gourds, pine cones, and bittersweet. My grandchildren would say that s’mores over a fire pit and apple picking at a close orchard are their favorites.
What a lovely book!! Thanks for sharing.
My most favorite of fall is everything. The changing colors, crispness of the air and leaves as they crunch below your feet hiking and apple picking and canning, which is a multiple family affair. Kids giggling, everyone laughing. Jackets on, jackets off. Love Fall!
My favorite fall ritual is baking my not yet famous soft sugar cookies in pumpkin and ghost shapes with orange and white icings. The orange pumpkins get a touch of green sprinkles on the stem and the white ghosts get chocolate chip eyes. My 3 year old granddaughter was recently diagnosed with celiac disease, so I have managed to adapt this “ancient” family recipe to be gluten free. Not exactly the same texture, but pretty darn close! I’m looking forward to baking that recipe down in Texas with the two girls, in their GF kitchen!
Baking pumpkin bread!
Love seeing the leaves change colors with the fall season. This time is also for baking apple pies and pumpkin muffins. Taking walks with dear friends and my crazy chocolate lab, Milo who I just adore.
This book is a party planner’s dream! What intriguing photographs.
Fall is such a wonderful time of year, especially here in Pennsylvania. I just baked a fall favorite that many love here in northwestern Pennsylvania and New York. It is Grape Pie. It’s made from Concord grapes, which grow easily in this area. Thank you for sharing this fabulous book. I will be purchasing it very soon. Good Luck to your followers!
What a beautiful book! Fall is my absolute favorite so it’s hard to pick just one thing but now that we have 5 grandchildren under 5 it’s so fun to trick or treat and to see the excitement through their eyes. I love it and everything fall!!
Wow! This book is lovely! Thank you for sharing. My favorite Fall activity is making velvet and homespun pumpkins with real pumpkin stems. I also enjoy drinking cappuccino or hot tea, on my patio, early in the morning. In Southern California it feels like Fall early in the morning and late at night! Love your blog Mary!
My favorite fall activity is making a pot of soup and baking gingerbread 💗
Oh my golly those pictures! WOW! What a beautiful coffee table book. Whew. Stunning giveaway, Mary!
My favorite fall thing – I have two. One: our annual family pumpkin carving for Halloween. Two: making my first pumpkin roll of the season. But I have so many. But those are two of my favs. Happy Fall, Y’all!!!! Just started getting chilly here and the leaves are changing. Good sleeping weather to be sure.
My favorite Fall ritual is apple picking in orchards!
My favorite season – I love the crispy air, the leaves (even the raking), cider, sweaters. Walking and enjoying everthing fall offers is my favorite ritual.
Truly inspiring book! Fall is a delight to all the senses with many favorite rituals to look forward to: Living in the mountains, we are blessed with spectacular views of leaves as they change colors, and pumpkin patches for selecting just the right pumpkins. The smell of the neighbors burning wood in their fireplaces, and building our first fire of the season. Changing out fruit jams for applebutter and making apple crisps, Ma’s pumkin bread, and apple cider. The cozy feel of pulling out all your winter sweaters. And the sound of football games on TV. Fall is definitely a unique time of year with much to enjoy! Thanks for sharing this beautiful book with us!
When our children were in preschool, we began going apple picking. We loved to pack a picnic of cocoa, soup and sandwiches and sit on the hillside with our children and often with their friends. On very cool days, hats, mittens and coats were in order! We now get to experience the fun and continue our tradition with our grandchild!
I love fall. Beautiful colors and perfect weather. And my birthday. I decorate with mums and bake pumpkin recipes.
Like most people I know, I LOVE fall! my Mother passed on her tradition of Fall Cleaning. Yes, she also Spring cleaned. Sounds suspicious, huh?Just how did her house get so dirty that she needed to repeat this ritual twice a year.
While I have lived in the West for over 40 years, I was raised outside of NYC and my parent’s house was next to the LIRR and the commuter parking lots. Winter produced lots of sand from trucks putting down sand on the roads and parking lots, summers were just plain dusty.
l now live directly across from a major interstate, in a small town now (pop.1204) and I love the life I live. I have an old kitchen hutch which I decorate nearly every holiday and season change. I love homey recipes that use items I already have in pantry and on my large spice rack. Owning a beautiful book like this one that touches on all four seasons would make me so happy.
Thanks to my Mother and her tutelage, I keep a clean home.
After all happiness and satisfaction are things that can be woman-made.
I do enjoy this blog and have managed to find and purchase from Amazon some of my favorite that I have seen on this blog.
Thanks. for all you do,
Maureen
We decorate for Fall inside and outside,purchase Fall foods and buy a couple of Pumpkins as well as a bag of Apples.
Marion
Fall is always welcome with Fall decorations and objects, cooking special foods.
Marilyn
The blankets and throws that are full of Autumn photos and of course the Pumpkin food.
Joan
Mary, gorgeousl book!! The photos and recipes look amazing!
My family has a yearly fall cookout and hay ride among spooky mountain trails at our cabin in Cloudland Ga. The fall leaves and campfires make it a special tradition that we have enjoyed for many years.
Thanks for sharing this special book!
Putting pumpkins out on the porch and in the front bushes! Also love to bake pumpkin bread and pumpkin pie
I love the many fall craft shows that happen in October and try to attend the festivals if I can. Seeing pumpkins and mums decorating my home also makes me happy. The garden is put to rest and all the busyness of vegetables is over…and my sewing room beckons! So many things to love about fall! Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you for bringing this book to my attention! It definitely will be on my Christmas list! The seasons are all short where I live, except for winter, which starts early, lasts forever, and sticks it’s nose into the business of all the other seasons! Which is why I’m always a little sorry to see the leaves change color as autumn ushers in the beginning of winter. My favorite part of autumn is when the menfolk leave for a week of hunting, & my girlfriends come for “Girl’s Week”. The house is overflowing with autumn decor, and snack foods, all the new recipes we have collected this year, jigsaw puzzles, Chinese checkers, cards & games etc., cover all the small tables! It’s an amazing time of fellowship and restoration of the soul!
Lovely book oooohhhhmmmyyyy I’ve been head over heels with Autumn since we made a 6 week journey all the way to Vermont in the Fall over 30 years ago. The crisp air and gorgeous colors steals my heart My home is decorated Sept through Thanksgiving with all the Autumn vibes Every recipe of the season Are waiting for a turn at the table. My go too Bosc pears halved w core seeds removed gorgonzola cheese, roasted pecans, walnuts, or hazelnuts, fresh rosemary, and thyme, drizzled with honey, and baked.
Oh, where to begin! I just love Fall, the crispness in the air, the beautiful colors and all the Fall flavored recipes to try. My friends and I enjoy the Fall craft festivals to visit. What a great season!!
WOW! Those pictures in the book are amazing! Thank you for the chance to win the giveaway.
My favorite fall ritual is to take my sons to a local Cider Mill. It’s not a big place, but it’s fun to grab some cider, donuts and other apple related items and spend time w my boys!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful book! Since we live in the north eastern area of the country we experience all the seasons, Autumn being our favorite. We look forward to the brisk cold weather of the morning and the warming of the day as it progresses. Of course the leaf colors of red, yellow, brown, orange, etc. on trees really create a glorious scene. I love putting out pots of bright colorful mums, afghans and pillows on my porch and deck, creating a place to read or just sit outside in a warm comfy area. I also bring the Fall colors inside with using glass pumpkins, pillows, etc. Tablescapes using my Fall dinnerware brings and added joy within.
We also visit our local farm stand for pumpkins, baskets of apples, etc., as well as going through a corn maze and tractor rides.
Happy Fall, Mary, 🦉 🍁 🦉 🍁 🦉
My favorite Fall has to be the sharing and togetherness with others. Thanksgiving on the horizon is a special time to be thankful and this year with my son in the Smoky Mountains of NC and my daughter and I in Florida the hurricanes have taken their toll and we are all so thankful to have each other. The times together is so important. The new change in the air and trees bring us great joy and I am so thankful.