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If You Can

by John Cole|  October 21, 20089:40 am| 16 Comments

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I know times are tough, but if you are so inclined to toss a few bucks to a good friend of this blog, I would appreciate it.

A present:

Rhode Island in the fall, sent in by a reader. The colors mirror what we see all over West Virginia this time of year (but with more mountains!).

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  1. 1.

    bago

    October 21, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Ok, the McCain campaign has been reduced to waving and pointing their fingers and screaming "Socialism". Better understood as "They they be takin mah bukkit!"

  2. 2.

    Dave

    October 21, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Ah, but can you have those colors against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean? It is just a beautiful place to visit in the fall. Plus, they have clamcakes you would literally kill for.

  3. 3.

    MNPundit

    October 21, 2008 at 10:33 am

    My main problem with WVa are its people. Yes I’m an asshole.

    But the secondary problem is weather. It doesn’t get cold enough.

  4. 4.

    ACK

    October 21, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Ah, but can you have those colors against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean? It is just a beautiful place to visit in the fall. Plus, they have clamcakes you would literally kill for.

    And don’t forget our quahog chowda with those clamcakes! I live in Rhode Island and it is indeed so beautiful this time of year.

  5. 5.

    Octavian

    October 21, 2008 at 11:01 am

    … and that’s why I love living in Rhode Island. New England is great.

  6. 6.

    Octavian

    October 21, 2008 at 11:02 am

    ACK, where in RI are you?

  7. 7.

    ACK

    October 21, 2008 at 11:07 am

    ACK, where in RI are you?

    Barrington. And you?

  8. 8.

    Octavian

    October 21, 2008 at 11:15 am

    Richmond.

  9. 9.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    October 21, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    I wish they would explain a little better what is going on and to whom. I’ve never read that blog, and I have no idea what’s going on.

    Hard to donate under those circumstances.

  10. 10.

    sshan25

    October 21, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    I’ll be damned if that doesn’t look just like the view of the Blackstone River from my living room windows in Albion, RI. It is indeed a nice time of year here in Little Rhody.

  11. 11.

    rob!

    October 21, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    (but with more mountains!).

    …and more racists!

    "West Virginia: Come for the Beautiful Mountains, Stay For the Angry, Self-Defeating Racism."

  12. 12.

    gbear

    October 21, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    Is RI big enough to have three towns?

  13. 13.

    Fulcanelli

    October 21, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    @ACK: Yep that’s RI. Look’s like Scituate, near the reservoir or maybe Johnson’s pond. Cranston, here. Just an old DFH in stealth mode.

    Opinion: Best clamcakes and chowda?

    gbear: Is RI big enough to have three towns?

    We have 39!

  14. 14.

    MaurS

    October 21, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    Ths pic was taken in Pascoag, RI. Echo Lake.

  15. 15.

    UberMitch

    October 22, 2008 at 12:40 am

    I grew up in Cranston, lived there until I was 18 and went away to college. The pic actually made me a little homesick. Then I realized I now live in Santa Monica, California, and tomorrow its supposed to be 84 degrees. Awesome.

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    […] Also, remember that pretty picture of the fall colors in Rhode Island that one of our readers mailed in: […]

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