Thursday, October 23, 2008

A View Down a Connecticut Road





I did mention how much I love New England this time of year at least once, right?



I've worn a path down this one road a zillion times and this time of year I find myself looking at it like an adolescent finally sees the plain girl next door across the room. She's bloomed.






This road appeared to me to wear jersey sweaters with an O. Not for Oprah.



What's going to happen to O magazine if Obama becomes president?

This is what nearly transfixes me into a lane swerve whenever I drive past it. It's a narrow Ish road without much forgiveness.





Or maybe its because from this angle its subliminally phallic.





You can also find my favorite coffee roaster (and neighbor) out for a ride. I didn't recognize him when he pulled up next to me in his stuponatron helmet. He must have completely disabled my sensitive coffee sensors, for when he greeted me, I acted as though he were another crazy guy out to make small talk. Until I saw past the helmet. How could you NOT want your coffee roasted by a guy with this kind of Vim and Vigor??? His place is Redding Roasters. He's in the side bar over there to the right if you want to see what he does. He also knows how to oil screen doors when the cat continually knocks it off the track.



6 comments:

Unknown said...

great photos! i love that line about the plain girl :)!!! shouldn't we both be in bed?? :)))

Shades of Scorpio said...

Ha ha....it must have been planetary, Annie! Why WERE we up???

Hm, that's a cool name - Planetary Annie!

Ned Hodgson said...

It reminds me of Interplanet Janet from Schoolhouse Rock. I already voted, but my 'O' signs are still up. It feels weird. Our leaves won't change for another few weeks - it gets cold here first, then the leaves turn and fall.

Shades of Scorpio said...

I knew a girl who loved being known as Interplanet Janet...she also was shamelessly in love with the guy that I was dating at the time.

Huh. Wonder what happened to her?

Our fall last year sounds in a sense like yours FB. We had green leaves still on the trees toward December...they turned way quicker this year than last.

Me said...

Interplanet Janet ... *sigh* At least that one would get me on my feet dancing.

Interplanet Janet
She's a galaxy girl!
Her solar system is
From a future wor-rld!

She travels like a rocket with her comet team
And there's never been a planet Janet
Hasn't seen
NO...
There's never been a planet Janet Hasn't seen

Mars is red
And Jupiter's big
And Saturn shows off it's rings
Uranus is built
On a funny ti-i-ilt
and Neptune is its twin.

And Pluto
Little Pluto
Is the furthest planet from the Sun...


Ah HA!! THAT'S why I will fight to the death anyone who insists that Pluto is not a planet anymore! This Schoolhouse Rock right here!! I'd forgotten all about it until I tripped down Memory Ln.! Do not EFF with my childhood, man!!!

And there are still such things as Brontosaurii too! So THERE.

Me said...

Wait ... what?