A gallery of spectacular fall foliage
Photo by Ron May
The photo on the left was shot in Northern Indiana a couple of weeks ago by Ron May. Thanks, Ron! It’s this year’s introduction to our fall foliage gallery, which you may remember from last year.
To view that, keep clicking on “Next” below (or on the right side) of the pix. And if you have any spectacular fall photos that you shot yourself, email them to me and I may add them to the mix.
Happy fall, folks. It sure is a colorful one!
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October 21, 2012 - 10:49 AM
That’s a beautiful pic, Ron May.
Something we can agree on, Frank.
Thanks Frank. The location is a county road I travel nearly every day on the way to work. I’m passing a farm that encompasses land on both sides of the road. The farm is a Hoosier Heritage Farm which means it’s been in the same family for at least 100 years. The man who operates the farm now is the 6th generation of his family to live and work the farm.
“The farm is a Hoosier Heritage Farm which means it’s been in the same family for at least 100 years. The man who operates the farm now is the 6th generation of his family to live and work the farm.”
Does he have a big “Murdouck for Senate” sign on his land?
I didn’t see any political signs in his yard.
We just got back from the lake and drove out and back through Windy Gap….it was absolutely beautiful.
I did see on one yard a weirdass “OMG…OBAMA MUST GO” sign. Very tasteful.
Thanks for sharing, there are some gorgeous trees out there this year!
The maples have been astounding.
Our big maple in the backyard is spectacular this year with orange and yellow…last year it had color for just a couple days, then went quickly brown before dropping leaves. This year it’s held the leaves much longer with much better color.
OJ,
Send me a pic!
#9 OJ, don’t know if this an option for you with the the food issues you all have, but my wife and I ate at Cafe Mekong last night, primarily because they already have their menu marked as to whether a dish is GF or not. Turns out they also have GF soy sauce and can make a few other things GF. I enjoyed my Pho and my wife liked the Pad Thai.
Sent, Dan!
Thanks for the tip, gdad! We’ll have to give them a look-see…
Where is that, gdad.
#14 Sorry, Kristen, just saw your message. Cafe Mekong is in Blacksburg, South Main St, across from the Kroger at Gables Shopping Center.
The pad thai is very good there (sometimes a little too gritty, though but better than anywhere else in Bburg IMO). I ate there 4 times over the last two weeks.
Gritty is not a word I want to see attached to pad thai.
We ate at that location a fair bit when it was still Napoli’s…the owner and his family were great, and the food was quite excellent…though, at the time we hadn’t completely determined our food allergy problems. We have to be careful about a lot of Asian cooking due to the soy sauce (often has wheat) and other soy-based products, the spices (quite a few dishes use clove, allspice, or cinnamon, which my wife has to avoid), and peanuts or peanut oil…which she also has to avoid, and obviously anything with wheat like noodles, fried/breaded items, etc. We generally just avoid the risk and cook at home. Thankfully, more and more restaurants are recognizing that a substantial number of potential customers have food allergy issues, and are beginning to offer menu items that can be made without them, and prepared in ways to minimize cross-contamination risks.
But gritty? I don’t like the sound of that with any food…
Yeah, me either, but I’m not driving to Roanoke all the time to get decent Pad Thai. Don’t let me sell Cafe Mekong too short, it is still awesome and a hell of a lot better than Cafe de Bangkok.
Gritty as in the tamarind paste maybe wasn’t a good batch or something a couple of times. Anyway, try it there, you will like it.
MMM must hate that restaurant because he’s damning it with something way less than faint praise. Nobody wants to eat “gritty” food and he knows it.
The pad Thai wasn’t “gritty” Sunday, but that’s the only time I’ve eaten there. I’m no Pho expert so I can’t tell you how it compares to anywhere else, but I finished my bowl and thoroughly enjoyed it — tripe, tendon balls, and all.
hey dano, have ya been back to The New Yorker lately? From your last critique on The New Yorker, I’d believe you’d a been happier had you received promptly served gritty food as opposed to late-served bad meat. Eh?
If you know anything about tamarind paste, Dan, which obviously you do not, you would understand the context of the word gritty that I used.. not gritty as in sand-like as you would be used to in Maryland. Certainly any other people who have made their own tamarind paste before can attest that it is hard to get all the ‘grit’ out of it.
Just a warning, you can pretend to know about some things but it will be very, very hard for you to pretend you know anything about Indian or Thai food if you really don’t.
Here is a link to further educate you.
http://www.blogwelldone.com/tag/indian/
BTW, I have eaten at Mekong probably 40 times since they opened including the day they have opened.
#21 Except that he ate there 4 times in two weeks, Dan. I’ll be going back to try some other things. But then I tend to give any restaurant that knows enough to deal with diet issues a few extra points. Just recently I was in a place in Gettysburg that obviously hadn’t a clue. Good way to ruin a trip.
Tripe and tendon balls? Yum!
Again, Dan, you should learn there are different variations of pho. Do you need me to send you a link?
I wasn’t sure how many bloggers know there is a wonderful Thai restaurant in Vinton called the Red Jasmine…it has been there for many years, and before eating there I assumed that Thai food would be too spicy. It wasn’t and you can actually choose the “hotness” of your selection as it is indicated alongside the individual selections.
Comment by gdad — October 22, 2012 @ 10:37 am
Re: Cafe Mekong
Eat there quite often. Maybe we can meet there some night.
Comment by Marked Man — October 23, 2012 @ 1:27 pm
Ditto MM
You know that old saying, “Never eat at a place called Mom’s?”
No lie, the WORST place, by far, I ever at was at a place called moms along I-81 where it hooks up with 77. Everything about the dinner and service was dreadful, and the restaurant was dinghy, too. There were 5 of us: Me, Donna, 3 kids. Some got their food, others didn’t unilt after after a long wait. The chicken breast in the sandwich my wife ordered was not cooked all the way, but the bacon on it was burned almost crispy black. One or more of the fried chicken drumsticks was simple a fried chicken drumstick bone — no meat at all. And the peices that had meat were dry and tough. The place was bad in every way. The manager took care of the bill.
Never eat at a place called moms — right!
Gdad, I always get the tripe and fatty tendon. Makes it great! The Pho at Pho Saigon and Cafe Asia are both great.
Love Red Jasmine, and it’s proprietor, Nut. But don’t call her “nut” as in peanut or she’ll hit you. It’s pronounced Noot.