September/October 2010
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
—Elizabeth Lawrence
Must confess, I still feel my smile broaden and my heart rate quicken when a reader tells me, “I love this magazine.” It never gets old! It wasn’t accidental for the inaugural issue of Yadkin Valley Living to come out in the fall season of 2000. Autumn has always been a mutual like for John and I who married on a Friday the 13th in October! We crave the cooler temperatures, absorb the magnificent tints of North Carolina’s fall leaf colour, and anticipate the first frost introducing the quietness of nature autumn characterizes. This fall turns out to be a time to catch our breath after a particularly humid and steamy summer.
Lots of fun comes in this season with festivals and fairs. We’ll cover local, small town ones and enormous ones like the 10-day Dixie Classic Fair plus pumpkin, apple, black walnut, harvest, Native American and grape festivals.
Glorious fall foods abound. In foodsandflavors, Yadkin Valley Living highlights rice—easy to prepare, healthy for you, and inexpensive. Make it part of every meal. Best Yadkin Valley Cooks has an old fashioned persimmon pudding; dessert tray features a phenomenal pumpkin meringue pie; From the Hearth will have you fixing fried apple pies the old timey way; in Nana’s kitchen the topic is chocolate; and Dining Divas rate a rustic steakhouse and a refurbished gas station. Travel with us into Amish territory to a hydroponic tomato farm. Cookbook Collector gives a
pre-release review of Yadkin Valley Living’s first cookbook,
Best Yadkin Valley Cooks.
What a huge response on the quilt tour map from last issue—I had to request more copies. Hope you enjoyed the tour as much as we did!
As the leaves begin to change and the air is hinting a future crispness, we tend to yearn for time to take walks and do some porch rocking. Allowing time for yourself is a must but this is also the perfect season to get old and new friends and neighbors to join you for a walk or rocking time. A cup of coffee or tea and a taste of a favorite autumn dessert seals the deal for you and your guests to collect some satisfying feelings.
Barbara
barbara@yadkinvalleyliving.com
On the cover:
Autumn is here—so are lots of festivals and fairs where you can find wonderous things like this fall decoration.
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