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We thought the day was going to be a washout. Not only did the sun come up, we ended the day with a beautiful moonrise, too. The new outlook reminded Hunna of a poem by Robert Frost: Dust of Snow. […]
As is typical of our vacations, we started out with rain. But we eeked out a nice few hours on the beach, and were able to spend a nice evening on our ocean-view deck. Here are a few photos from […]
Today, Greg and I went to the lighthouse at Montauk. All these years and I’d never been inside. Well, we didn’t climb it. Are you kidding? But we did have a nice day out and about. We started out with […]
Our day at the beach. Our evening at the beach. We don’t do much, but it sure is fun. [wowslider id=”28″]
From a sunny afternoon to magic hour, here’s a look at one of the top 10 beach days of all time. Thank you Amagansett!
A few photos from our beach weekend.
We got a winner of a weekend to spend with the girls. The first night’s magic hour was killer.
I sure wish we had a market like this near the farm. All local meats; beautiful seasonal fruits; even artisan crafts like soap and tabletop stuff. It’s really lovely. And we bought a ton of stuff, including sloppy joes for […]
First, a tour of the fields where the Scottish Highland Cattle graze. Then, a look at the garden that chef Andrew Little tends with his staff — and his dad. An amazing operation. I’m thankful to have seen it.
This breakfast was just incredible, from the coffee to the eggs to the pastry. Unbelievable!
In Hanover, Pa., there’s an inn and restaurant where the owners take the locavore philosophy very seriously. The owners, Heather Sheppard Lunn and her sister, Kathryn Sheppard Hoar, took over their grandmother’s old mansion after years of it being empty. […]
I’m not usually one to say: “Hey, let’s go check out a Civil War battlefield!” But when the battlefield is Gettysburg, well, that’s something you don’t want to miss. We spent an afternoon there, and I must say, I want […]
After a couple of lovely fun days in Charlottesville, we were back on the road — headed to Gettysburg and an overnight in Pennsylvania. But before we left C-ville, we had to stop by the house where my parents lived […]
After our tour of UVA and downtown Charlottesville, we were ready for a little pick-me-up. A Cherry Lime Soda and a seat at the soda fountain at Timberlake’s Drugs was, if you’ll excuse the saying, just what the doctor ordered.
I was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and I believe this might be the first time I’ve been back since my parents moved away when I was three. There are a number of photos in my mom’s collection that stand in […]
Greg wins hands down on this one. He went for the BLT with artisan bacon from Nodine’s Smokehouse. I lost. Big time. I went for the biscuit and sausage gravy. On a 90-degree day. What, exactly, was I thinking? It’s […]
Dinner at Peter Chang’s China Grill was reason enough to come to Charlottesville. And I’m sorry to disappoint — especially since this is ostensibly a food blog above all else — but I must confess that it was not because […]
Comfortable, convenient and not too outrageously expensive. Thumbs up. Here’s our room. Our room looked over an atrium lobby with a glass elevator, and the front doors of the hotel open onto Charlottesville’s pedestrian mall. The hotel is also very […]
The definition of renaissance man: Thomas Jefferson — author of the Declaration of Independence, President of the United States, founder of the University of Virginia. Collector of wines, books and knowledge. A self-taught linguist, architect, inventor and gardener. And as […]
After a pretty bad night’s sleep at the Days Inn Roanoke — which Greg nicknamed the Days Inn Islamabad for its crumbling walls and filthy rooms — we headed out early in the morning to get some brekky and check […]
A big storm was rolling into Roanoke the night we stayed there, and it made for a beautiful sky. But Roanoke is very pretty to begin with. It was founded in the 1850s, and many buildings have Victorian-era architecture. And […]
We were introduced to the beauty of Benton’s — a smokehouse not 40 miles from our cabin in Tennessee — by dining out in New York, particularly at Momofuku Ssam Bar and at PDT. We finally had the chance to get […]
It was our last day at the cabin, but tomatoes and peaches were really just coming in. Corn was just getting good. Blackberries were just shedding their last tartness. So we couldn’t pass up the chance to go to the […]
There’s nothing quite like the stillness of the lake just before sunset. So on both Wednesday and Thursday, we ate super-early and were able to take a dip in the water and a nice spin around the lake before dark. […]
SCF fans may remember our last trip to the Chattanooga Farmers Market. That was the big one, held on Sundays under a grand pavilion. On Wednesdays, you’ll find many of the same vendors, but no craftspeople. This is a producers-only […]
Another stop on the in-town errands: good bread. We found it at what we think might be the only artisanal bakery in Chattanooga. It’s called Niedlov. Get it?
We’d read about this cool sausage place – local hogs, artisanal craft, you know the deal! – in an article on Chattanooga in Garden & Gun magazine. So we decided to pop in for a few things.
After lunch, a little window shopping. We browsed Warehouse Row, mostly. One of our favorite shops was called Revival.
July 6, 2011 was our 10th anniversary. Yikes! Time flies! We headed into town for a little celebration. Lunch at Public House, a farm-to-table casual restaurant in Chattanooga’s Warehouse Row shopping center. The beaming bride: No good photos of hunna […]
It’s nice to wake up to this in the mornings, isn’t it? And here’s a nice one at sunset. A few more pics, after the jump.
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
