A couple Thanksgivings ago, I celebrated with my neighbor's family and their two fantastic kids in Tahoe. The turkey was in the oven and I realized we didn't have a centerpiece for the table. I had found two empty large fish bowls/vases in the house. So their youngest  and I went on a little walk with a paper bag in tow.  On our short walk, we collected pine cones, pine needles, lichen, pieces of bark and just about anything else we could find. He used just about all of our found objects and made two perfect centerpieces.