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Thanks buddy I needed that!

Why is it every time I look at one of your posts I'm hungry!

Were you duck hunting with archery equipment or bowfishing? Great stuff!

You have some serious camera skills Sir but seem fixated on food!

Another great album of pics. I needed that too! Thanks.

Beautiful fall foliage, L. Wife and I were between Helvetia,WV & Pickens,WV last week. The trees were on fire !!

What's up with the Merc ?

My brother is hunting birds with a bow, Pat. As yet he's still limited to shooting at landed geese and ducks, but with more practice I think he has the skills to be able to start taking some wing shots (specific kinds only).

TLEE, I know. What can I say? I love food.

Some of those shots above were taken at a little farm stand down the street from us. Much of their goods are Polish and Eastern European. All kinds of hand/home made sausages, jams, jellies, perogies, amazing variety of horseradishes, incredible breads and baked goods to die for. I was thinking about Ed/Bucktales when looking at pics to toss up.

But since you mentioned it, here are a few more. Anyone who enjoys Eggs Benedict and lobster needs to at least once in their lives treat themselves to a breakfast of Lobster Benedict. Merciful Kreisst it is good...















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No idea Den. Just doing as I will often do, and taking a fun drive around the NH/MA border with my lady. As usual, I was pausing here and there when something caught my eye, and if I like it enough I snap a shot or two before moving on. As I love those old 50s Mercs and came by that one ornamenting someone's lawn, well, there you have it.

OMG--the Eggs Benedict!! ***drool***

Assuming they were made with lobster!! double ***drool***

duhhh I just read your words. Was only looking at the great pics!

I was thinking that maybe Stallone moved to MA.

KG, thanks for the photos. Always uplifting.

I hope you have a good day.

That looks like the Mercury from Cobra.




Travis

You have an eye for photography sir. Thanks for sharing.

Travis,Sho' nuff bad azz tune.

Yes sir, that's what it is. On Mondays another place down the street serves lobster chowder. There goes the diet. Again.

It's silly how good the food around here can be. The crawfish pic was more of a joke thing. Brother and I decided to slum it at a Chinese pig-out buffet, and lo, a worker comes out as we're standing there next to the steamed clams in black bean sauce and pours a pile of steaming Cajun style mini-bugs into the metal serving tub adjacent.

There were probably 100 of them, with the steam coming off them filled with nice spicy aromas. We looked at each other, shrugged and piled some on our plates. They were quite good, so we went on to destroy them down to the last one. Not a whole lot of meat, but tasty little bastards they are, and the sucking on their heads which I've always heard about now makes sense.

Thanks for the comments, y'all.

Thanks for the pictures........... But only one of your wife's lovely smiling face. You can do better.

Beautiful pics L.

I miss the NE part of the country.

Hope you and your beautiful wife are doing well my friend.

Thanks for sharing. Great pictures as always! Knock off the food pics or I won't be able to get into my hunting gear!

Another great post. Thanks and best wishes to you and family.

Making no reflection on his other shots, Gari shoots food shots about as well as any I've ever seen, and to best of my knowledge doesn't prep the food for pictures. Might have missed your calling Kamo.

As always, beautiful stuff - thanks, Leighton!

Kamo, who's the DA out in the drink on a float?

Was that a platter of fried channel catfish?

How do you cook cat?



Great pics as usual. Take care on the duck hunts this year.

Remember, no brown ducks with those pretty chevrons.

eyeball, the platter of fish appears to be smelt. Very tasty.

Thanks. It looks almost like cornmeal fried channel cat which is Heavenly.

Those Concord Grapes took me back a lot of decades. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn for a guy that had a lots of them. Skins are bitter, but the fruit and juice inside, is sweet as candy. If I remember correctly, they had to be hit by a frost first, before they'd sweeten. Nice photos.

Yessir. Pretty sure that is smelt. The generation before mine used to go up by Duluth and net smelt in the creeks and streams and have huge smelt fries/beer parties when they returned. I've attended one in my life time as an adult and they are very tasty.

Just one thing...you want to be very near a bathroom or have TP in the truck the next day...

Lovely

Seen him in action and he shoots the pics "on the fly".
Leighton, great pics as usual brother!

I may have to buy an oversized recliner to compensate.

You nailed it, friend. I was wondering if any Yankee/northern types would make the ID. Well done. And yes, as sugary and sweet as candy. If anyone is familiar with Welch's grape juice that's the exact flavor. We were hunting honkers over corn stubble and while running down the young goose pictured above came across a pile of the wild Concord vines.

BTW, that young bird (2nd year I'd bet) seen next to my Beretta was a little badass. I hit him with two pellets in the head but a tiny bit too far back to disengage his motor skills, but also hit him going away with a raking shot that must have gotten a piece of wing bone as well as firing up his topside.

It was one of those freak deals where the structural damage caused by the shot wasn't initially bad enough to knock him out of the sky, but at 120 yards and pumping wings straining for altitude I watched as the bone gave way under load. It went from looking like he'd given me the slip to straight down in the span (ha, ha) of half a second. The bad wing that was providing lift a moment before was seen trailing vertically above the body as limp as a wet rag.

When I laid eyes on him, I couldn't help but feel badly. He was in survival mode, his body pressed as flat as could be, with his neck outstretched and chin in the dirt, very much alive but badly hurt. As we locked eyes together realized the jig was up, but rather than turn and flee he hissed and came right at me. Wasn't expecting that! I had my 12 at port and in an instant had it on him, and came within a moment of cutting him down but since I wanted something left to toss on the grill instead jabbed him in the chest with the barrel, then used it to roll his neck over and pinned his head down against the ground. with my left hand I then grabbed him up and broke his neck. A game bird, that.

The other fellows that called smelt on the fish ID also were dead right. Some of you boys are g-o-o-d. Real good.

Appreciate the words and input, all. Kind thanks.

Oh man, is that shepards pie in that first pic?

Winnah winnah sheppid's pie dinnah bruthah. That it was prepared with local beef, potatoes and sweet corn made it even more of a treat.

I know what i'm having for Sunday dinner now 'cept we'll be using fresh ground moose.

Thanks for the idea!

I was raised in Mill Creek, you probably went through it going to Helvetia.

Holy firewood!

always good stuff Leighton, always


living well, only thing that makes sense


you seem to have a good handle upon that fact

No kidding. I made the lass get out and stand in for scale. She wasn't pleased but humored me.

That arm seen was one of three on that lawn, and was near a football field in length. Apparently some guy's wife likes the house on the warm side in winter...

Amen, and thank you 2L2Q. There is no do-over in this thing we call life, after all.

Nice, KG, 'The Farm' is a very good place and where I have my roots dug in cheekbone deep.

How the heck do they stack the firewood like that? Nothing to support it? Keep the pics coming!