Frost! Pie! Yard!

Very random post today...working backwards may be best...which will be recounted in the other direction in these photos...Today Dan and I took a drive south about 40 miles to the town of Greensboro, AL. There is a place called Pie Lab that we've been wanting to visit for quite sometime. It was a fabulous morning drive, the air was nice and crisp and the colors on the trees were taking their time to change in keeping with the season. Once there we had some delish pie and quiche and two cups o' Joe. Pie Lab is a very cool idea and I hope it can revive Greensboro, whose downtown is very sad but with oh so much potential for a cute small town.

From Pie Lab's "About" page on their website:

Pie Lab is a local restaurant & bustling community space located in Greensboro, Alabama. In March of 2009, a group of young designers and thinkers participating in a PROJECT M session came up with the concept of Pie Lab. They coined the equation that "Pie + Conversation = Ideas / Ideas + Design = Positive Change." A group of these young designers moved to Alabama and, with the help of Project M and HERO, were able to make it a reality here in Greensboro.

Today, Pie Lab functions as a restaurant striving to bake with local ingredients and a community space striving to meet the needs of community members. We believe in the idea that pie can bring people together. That great conversation can be enjoyed alongside great food.

We walked around DT Greensboro which was very tiny, but had a lot of old buildings (city established in early 1800's) that I could see being a pretty hip downtown with a little TLC. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot going for Greensboro aside from the charm potential industry wise as it was mostly an Agriculture-based economy before the civil war. Then the Great Depression hit and they never really bounced back after that like most small rural southern towns (my source for this info is here). Anyhow, I still find it pretty durn cute in 2010 and there are a few DT pics of our little jaunt in the photo album I linked to at the top of this post.

Other than that, Dan's been adjusting to Central time quite well, we're both keeping busy in the lab with various tasks. There are pics of my Halloween costume with a friend Eve in the album (the day before Dan came back), some pics of my visit to Birmingham while I awaited the arrival of the Iceland Boys (bfast at Urban Standard (shrimp and grist for 7 bucks!) and bouldering at First Ave Rocks)...

Also been working in the yard a bit, planting bulbs, making the yard look more "country" (read: hanging random stuff on the fence), and the veggies are doing great! I think tomorrow will be time to harvest the first of the kale! whoopie!! Oh yes, and yesterday was our first day of frost...not too bad and we ended up keeping warm with the electric blanket...we're seeing how long we can hold out without using the heat! I think we feel more hardy since coming from Idaho...in truth, cold is cold...

xo