Once again our friends at Vancouver-based Le Marché St. George cafe invite us to take part (at least from a distance) in their yearly French-Canadian Thanksgiving adventure. This year, family, friends, and coworkers gathered at Janaki Larsen and Pascal Roy’s remote property in Oroville (a town in eastern Washington state) to partake in a three-day outdoor camp celebration that included open-fire cooking, foliage-adorned table settings, and nature-seeking activities.
Photography by Janaki Larsen and Issha Marie for Le Marché St. George.

Above: The landscape of Janaki and Pascal’s Oroville property is desert-like?hot and arid in the summer and extremely cold and dry in the winter.

Above: The Thanksgiving table is placed in the middle of a field with an open view.
Above: A mix-and-match assemblage of vintage folding chairs collected over the years.

Above: The makeshift long table benches are fashioned from reclaimed wooden planks placed on top of cinder blocks. The tablecloth is a laundered painter’s canvas drop cloth.

Above: The table is set with ceramic plates and bowls by Janaki (she?s also a ceramic artist). Wild greenery and branches gathered from the surrounding fields dress the table.

Above: ?Since we were such a large group, everyone had to bring their own dishes. Most of us brought a plate or two made by Janaki, and at the end we had enough plates to set the table,” Marie says. The gold tumblers are from Atelier...