Time is running short to get an entry in for Scott’s current assignment. I took advantage of our visit to Pickity Place (fabulous food as always!) to look for some natural abstract photos in the gardens that surround the restaurant. Here’s what I was able to find:
This last photo isn’t abstract at all, but I definitely thought worth sharing. Dessert from yesterday’s Pickity luncheon:
I’d been wanting to write a blog post this weekend, but I hadn’t taken any pictures this week to share with you. Today I had plans for a luncheon at a favorite spot that I’ve shared with you many times, Pickity Place. My sister, our best friend and I were in need of a nice girls’ day out. At the last second this morning as I was on my way out the door, I grabbed my camera and put in my bag. My thoughts were : I’ve taken so many pictures at Pickity Place, what new could I possibly find to share? It is November afterall – No leaves, no flowers, November. However, one lesson I’ve learned in the past is that it is the times that I don’t have my camera with me that I will surely wish that I did.
Perhaps it should have come as no surprise, I did find a few photos today. One of the wonderful things about Pickity is the way that it changes with the seasons and makes each one beautiful. The sun came out for a surprisingly warm day for mid-November in New Hampshire, and the sunlight seemed to have a special, almost filtered, quality to it at this time of the year. Today I found some beauty in the small details, details that I might not have otherwise noticed if it had been a day filled with striking flowers and bountiful greens.
Some of the most beautiful details come in the form of the amazing meals served at Pickity Place. I didn’t think to take any food pictures until we got to the last lovely course. Today’s dessert was a pumpkin spice roll with caramel-raspberry sauce with fresh whipped cream. The small quarters where the meals are served made it a little difficult for me to focus since I only had my 55-250mm lens with me, and I thought when I looked at the LCD that the dessert was my focal point. Instead, here you have focus on my delicious mulled cider and the remains of our refreshing water carafe, but you can get the idea! More great details:
Thank you Pickity Place – and Jennifer and Renae- for another fabulous afternoon.
“Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! Like hi, man! I live at this like totally awesome place called Pickity Place? I totally don’t know why they call it that, but like, do you have any idea how heavy wet wool is dude? Huh? Oh, like sorry man. I’m not supposed to be talking to you about that. Lessee, what was it now? Oh yeah, flowers! I’m not usually into those flowery-type thing-a-ma-bobs, but since someone calling herself Karma asked me to, I thought it wouldn’t be too lame! Besides, man, you know what they say about karma, right? Hey, just who are these they people anyway? Oh, sorry, getting off track again….”
“Now this one here, it really isn’t too far away from my pen, and I could like totally chow down on that if they’d let me get near it.”
“As long as you don’t scarf the fuzzy-bee-dude in the middle, I’m sure this could be a tasty snack. You know, I’ve heard there’s this golden retriever, lives in some town in western Massa-something-or-other, that like eats ‘em on purpose? Isn’t that like so gnarly?”
“Now this one, I can’t figure out man. Why are they throwing the snacks in the water bowl?”
“If I was actually clean, I think I might look like this one dude. That’d be like so far out!”
“Look at that, a way groovy smorg!”
“So, like anyway dudes, it was totally cool talking to you. I gotta split, but you should totally cruise my pad at Pickity Place.”
A delicious luncheon with friends, a visit to Cape Cod, early birthday gifts and the Red Sox win three games in a row – how awesome is that?
My weekend away began with a return visit to Pickity Place in Mason, NH. It was delicious, as always. You can click here to see what we had to eat. Unfortunately, the wind was nasty cold and making the day seem quite bitter outside. When we were there back in October, it was a mild fall day and things looked quite different. Though my fingers felt like frozen claws, I couldn’t help snapping a few pics.
I thought this angel statue looked as chilly as I felt:
I enjoy the effort the folks at Pickity Place go to to set up little vignettes that go with the seasons:
This frog prince didn’t seem to mind the blustery wind:
Can you see me reflected in his gazing globe?
I did manage to find one more pretty sign of spring before my fingers shaped into the form of a claw from the cold:
The tiny buds remind me of lilacs, but this didn’t look like any lilac that I’ve ever seen. Anyone know what it might be?
The Pickity kitty smartly stayed inside the gift shop on this day, quietly enjoying the goings-on outside from the warmth of the window:
I certainly did! 
Awesome Weekend, Part 2, Cape Cod edition, coming soon!
No, not that kind of stripping! 
I’ll admit to being a little disappointed at first with today’s photo prompt. We were supposed to look for light showing off the texture of the photo subject, then strip away the color in photo editing software. I’ve never been a big fan of black and white photography, but I can appreciate it when it is done well. Because I love vibrant color so much, finding subjects that do well in black and white is a weakness for me. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I took many pretty, colorful, fall pictures on my visit to Pickity Place, and was disappointed I couldn’t use one for yesterday’s prompt. Then I remembered a shot I took yesterday that pretty much screamed texture:
Bonus for me, since they are sheep, I didn’t lose much by removing the color. And I can admit, I think the texture of the wool is slightly enhanced with the lack of color.
Now, how about that Pickity slideshow I mentioned yesterday? Here it is, bursting with color!
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The photo prompt that arrived in the mail today turned out to be slightly ironic for me. I wanted to check it first thing this morning because I was headed to a lovely place for a special luncheon that I was sure would be filled with all sorts of things indicative of fall and full of color. My sister and our best friend and I went to Mason, NH to have lunch at Pickity Place. Their menu changes monthly, and every time it is spectacular. Pickity place is surrounded by gorgeous flowers and herbs, and is nestled at an adorable cottage in the woods. Well worth the trip if you are in the southern New England area. I thought for sure I’d easily fulfill today’s photo prompt during our visit. Today’s prompt, however, asked us to find something appealing in our kitchen. Fall is a season of preparations, many of which traditionally happen in the kitchen. It also asked us to try to take the photo at a time when the kitchen would be filled with natural light so that we could take the shot without flash. I was leaving the house early today and knew I wouldn’t be back before all natural light was gone from my kitchen, so I decided to fulfill the prompt with a shot of a morning preparation for the day, my beloved Keurig coffee maker. Have you seen these babies in action? No muss, no fuss, great coffee fast.
I did, of course, take some pretty fall pictures at Pickity Place, after a fabulous meal. Would you like to see those? Maybe I’ll put a slideshow of those shots together tomorrow since I don’t have to go to work! Thanks, Columbus!
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