I took this during our torrential rain this week from the front seat of my car. This is the Spring Mill Cafe. It's a French restaurant with influences from the places the owner has visited. It is also a BYOB, which is nice. P and I go to this place every year for Valentine's Day and at other times too. They recently painted the rooster on the side of the building in celebration of their anniversary. It looks really good. There are also beautiful perennial gardens in the front. This is also a place that I pass by on my way to work.
There is a story connection too. P was very good friends with the owner's son when they were in grade school. Sometimes P would go to the restaurant with his friend after school and they would steal all the sugar cubes out of the sugar bowls and eat them. This guy now manages the place as his Mom is getting older and is doing more traveling. They once offered to take P to Morocco, a place they visited almost yearly but P's parents wouldn't let him go. :(
Anyway, I liked how this turned out, looking all watercolory because of the rain. It looks really cool when you click on it to make it bigger.
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I love it! It looks like a painting and also kinda spooky.
I was going to say the exact same thing, Mama Dawg, but you beat me to it! That is are really cool picture. I wonder if it could be blown up and framed? I don't know how great the Crackberry's resolution is.
What a cool photo! This cafe reminds me of one in Gresham, a suburb to the east of Portland, called The Truffle Hunter. I love places like tha with 'atmosphere'. We've had one of the wettest, dreariest Springs this year in our area. A day of sunshine is worth a happy dance!
Ooooo, very cool clicked big!
I hope you guys still steal the sugar..
Have a GREAT weekend
I love the byob places, and clicking it is pretty cool, I would frame that one
Wow, a lesser person would have deleted it and called it too blurry. That is awesome. I tried to make it big enough to crawl into but I was unable to do so. Any suggestions?
Dude! that is really awesome. Nice owrk.
It looks and sounds like my kind of place. And I like the picture too. I would be the idiot that would delete it, lol.
Why am I stuck in strip mall hell! Okay, we do have a road of nothing but amazing vineyards and wineries less than a mile from my house.. but everything else has a bit neon sign out front.. Yuck.
fuckin cool! it looks like its melting!!
Hey fellow citizen!
I gotta tell ya....that picture kinda scares me.
Peace #2
Great picture and a sweet story too!
Hey Scargosun - here's the coffee solution....look in the bottom left corner and slowly count across about five whole beans towards the right...and see what you see. You won't believe you didn't see it before :)
Oh, it's AWESOME!! It's so pretty, you should frame it and give it to the owners to hang up in the restaurant.
You hit it right on the head with "Watercolory". Very cool pic!
That's a lovely pic. You could win a prize with that one!
I do get Crackberry Friday now!!!!
It is a magnificent picture. And now my mouth is watering for an imagined delightful dinner.
that is a gorgeous picture
Neat pic through the rain!
What a nice surprise--that the rain would give the photo such a cool effect!
My Grandparents lived on Scargo Hill Road in Dennis on Cape Cod. Every time we went to their house we'd take a walk up the road to Scargo Hill Tower... I think I've climbed that tower a hundred times... I haven't thought about that place in a while...
That is a very cool photo... kinda creepy but way cool...
Wow! That is a great picture. Have you shown it to the owners?
That is fantastic! A 'Watercolor' in the most vivid sense! What town is this restaurant located? I think I might like to try it sometime.
Wow! Can't decide - Van Gogh or Impressionists....
Very pretty!
Very cool I agree. Alot of people would have tossed it but it is a true gem.
What a fantastic picture! Very well done . . .
Enjoy your SITS day, but I'm adding you to my daily reads!
Love the pic! It sounds like a lovely place with great memories!
Sneaking over from SITS...very cool picture...
That is a cool picture!!!
Hi! Came from SITS, I love the effect you've captured with that photo. I have seen pics be altered to look that way and you've managed to do it for real! Makes me want to try lol... Good Job! Off to read more
The watery picture is awesome! What an interesting idea. I love the watery affect. And, it sounds like a great restaurant. Very cool.
OMG! I totally thought you photoshopped that pic!! How cool is that??
Really cool photo. As others have said, you should enlarge it and frame it.
I love old buildings and the place just invites you to come on in and sit awhile...
I love the idea of "Friday Crackberry Pic"! Way cool picture!
That's a really pretty picture! Are you enjoying all of your SITS love?
Very nice!
Now that is my kind of place! I love the rooster!
I am a little a-scared looking at it like that though. But it *is* very, very cool.
Can't decide what sounded yummier---french food or sugar cubes straight from the bowl :)....
And you're right--the picture was even prettier blown up!
Congrats on your SITS feature---hope you relish in all the comment love ;).
It is cool to have great memories like this place!
Very pretty picture!!
I love your picture.
Fall and Winter are my favorite seasons (I know, I'm a weird one).
Seeing this photos makes me want to snuggle up with a good book. Or hop on over to that restaurant and have a bite to eat (if I was anywhere close).
I did enlarge the photo...it looks so neat with the rain drops and the dark strip across the top (from your car) adds to it too!
How wonderful to have a "favorite" little spot to go...My husband and I are always looking for a little place like that...
the picture looks like a watercolor painting...I guess in a way it is :o)
~simply~
Oh nifty, I thought it was photoshopped to look like that until I read the post. :)
That is a really awesome pic!!
You gotta love good old Pennsylvania!
That is just BEAUTIFUL ... the rain, the building ... everything:)
Cool photo!! It does look kind of spooky and charming all at the same time... love it!!
Looks like a French Impressionist painting - very fitting for a French restaurant. Really a cool photo.
Founde you on SITS. Great blog!
Very cool picture! It looks like there are "ghosts" all around the building!
Hello via SITS - what a gorgeous picture - that needs to be framed!
Cool pic! Happy SITS day!
I bet the owners would love a copy of your photo. It would make a pretty postcard pic.
visiting via sits - that is an amazing photo- so cool!
Very cool picture...you should enter it in a photography contest. Just think...people pay lots of money for software that does that and you just did by chance!
Ooh. I love this!! I feel like I'm in the car with you.
I MADE IT!!! Sorry for the delay, but as you know, I've been out of pocket for the last 24 hours with some big things going on over here in Mississippi.
Anyway, this picture is AWESOME. I cannot believe that you got something so cool out of a picture taken from behind a windshield. That's rare.
I love it. You should send it to updone and have a print made. It looks like it's been adobed but better because its real.
That's neat.
And au natural, no Photoshop.
awesome photo!
That is way cool. I may have to try that "technique" one day! I'm a day late, sorry, but I'm here!
Great pic! And i'm not missing the connection between the French restaurant and the impressionistic style of the photo...I want some crepes.
oh I used to love stealing sugar cubes from church when I was little!! lol
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