The Frenchtowner

Longwood Gardens is a special place to visit any time of the year, but at Christmas, it is a wonderland of horticultural masterpieces. Shown above is a gigantic red begonia Christmas Wreath with an English ivy bow. This wreath measured about five feet square.

 
On Thursday, October 6th, a friend and I stopped by Trauger’s Farm Market in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. What confronted us was a sea of orange pumpkins and hubbard squash, and other assorted strange fall plant creatures.

Fall Colors of Bucks County Pennsylvania: Click on photo to see more fall photos from Kintnersville PA

One Great Assortment, Gourds at [...]

Fall and Halloween Pumpkin Patches in Bucks County PA

There’s an abundance of local farms where you can go out in the field and pick your own pumpkin or simply choose from ones already harvested like the ones shown above at Traugers Farm in Riegelsville in northern Bucks County. The pumpkins, gourds and corn stalks grown on these local farms are perfect [...]

This feature was originally posted on March 3, 2007 at 1:42 am
Frenchtowner.com and The Hunterdon Bucks Blog aren’t just about Frenchtown, Hunterdon or Bucks County anymore. We do have to go on vacation sometimes, and for the past two years, we have spent the first week of January in a much warmer place than NJ. [...]

February, 22, 2005: Philadelphia Museum of Art
While my friend and I were waiting to see the Dali exhibition, we stumbled across an artist that neither one of us had ever heard of before, Belgian Symbolist, Leon Frederic.
The first image featured here is from Frederic’s “Four Seasons: Fall”. The series portrays the four seasons symbolically with [...]

February 22, 2005
 
One of my favorite things about visiting Philadelphia is visiting Zeus. I come back over and over again to stare up at him and admire his beauty. Zeus is the central figure on the pediement of the Northern frieze of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The sculptures were done by C. Paul Jennewein [...]

This Story was originally posted on February 6, 2005.
Day One: Wendy’s - Atlanta Airport and Marigny Brasserie - New Orleans Louisiana

 
When we arrived in New Orleans, we had not gotten any sleep the night before, and had only eaten an incredibly tasteless and cardboard like breakfast sandwich at the airport in Atlanta from Wendy’s. How [...]

 
This story was originally posted on the Frenchtown NJ Blog/Jaunt Blog on February 6, 2005.

A Journey from Frenchtown NJ to Newark NJ to New Orleans LA, to Dothan AL, to Panama City FL, to St. Augustine FL and back to Newark and Frenchtown NJ

There is something true about the old saying: “You can never go [...]

Vintage TV Image from Wikipedia 

I just got home from doing some errands to find a marvelous surprise in my email box. This is an incredible opportunity for any foodie in New Jersey or New York. Act fast everyone!
I write to you on behalf of A&E. We are doing a cooking show with chef Rocco DiSpirito, [...]