Welcome to the Wednesday Hodgepodge! Here are this week's questions, which you should answer on your own blog and then pop over to Joyce's blog (click on the graphic for the link) Wednesday to add your link to the party.
1. Fall officially rolls into the Northern Hemisphere on Monday (9/22)...what's your favorite thing about fall?
Anything to do with pumpkins. Pumpkin patches, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, pumpkin bread, pumpkin decorations, pumpkin candles...all things pumpkin.
I want to go to a pumpkin patch. I don't think I've been since Sophia was little.
3. Apples, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, butternut squash and cranberries are some of the top fall foods. Which one is your favorite and how do you like it prepared? Any on the list you don't eat? Which one have you had most recently?
Apples or pumpkins in a pie. I'm not really bothered about sweet potatoes or butternut squash and we still eat Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce in this house.
4. 'Fall is proof that change is beautiful' is a popular sentiment. Would you agree or no? Elaborate.
Yes, I agree and you only have to look at the way the leaves on the trees change to see how beautiful fall really is.
5. Is there a spot near you where people go to see the leaves change color? Will you try to leaf peep somewhere this fall? Lonely Planet lists the following ten places as the best for leaf peeping...of those listed which would you most like to visit?
Stowe, Vermont~Shenandoah National Park, Virginia~Columbia River Gorge, Oregon~Zion National Park, Utah~Tennessee/North Carolina border~West Virgina~Northwestern Wyoming~Wisconsin Northwoods~Northern Nevada~Ozark Highlands Scenic Byway, Arkansas
We live in the Evergreen State and so we have a lot of trees here that are green year-round. I don't know if we'll be doing any leaf peeping this year or not. I haven't visited any of the places on the list above; the closest to a leaf peeping spot was when we visited Maine, where I snapped this photo. It was in October 2009, and we went to the University of Southern Maine in Gorham, ME for Sophia to participate in a 4-H contest.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
I know many of us are reading food labels a lot more carefully these days and I found Whole Foods' current awareness campaign interesting.
What a cute snoopy pumpkin decoration! That's great marketing for whole foods. I don't understand why us food makers won't just raise the ingredient standards to the items they already make for Canada and Europe.
ReplyDeleteI love all the pumpkin things! My favourites are the lattes and pumpkin spice candles.
ReplyDeleteI have never been to a pumpkin patch, by the time they became a big thing over here my girls were too old for them. I really should take myself off to one now.
I like so many pumpkin things! Those pumpkin biscotti look really good - reminds me of pumpkin spice pretzels I found last year and loved. Hope I can find them again! That is a really interesting and thought-provoking campaign from Whole Foods. I'm glad people are being encouraged to pay more attention! HOpe you're having a great week!
ReplyDeleteOcean Spray Jellied Cranberry sauce for the win....someone will complain if it's not on the holiday table...
ReplyDeleteI love what you said about the Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce! Same!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI like decorating with pumpkins and like pumpkin bread but am not a fan of pumpkin beverages. I like the scent in a candle if it's combined with something else. I make homemade cranberries but always have the canned here too. You need both : ) Hope you've had a nice weekend!
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