Since I’ve got the luxury of hanging with the MDK girls FOUR nights in a row, and I know some of you won’t have that priviledge, I’m giving away a TWO SIGNED copy COPIES of their TOME!
In order to win, leave me a comment stating your most favorite thing MASON and your most favorite thing DIXON. For instance, mint juleps and a heaping bowl of clam chowder. Or reading Moby Dick while listening to Patsy Cline. Opposites attract, but judging from the girls I hung with last night, they also compliment very nicely. GO TO IT! Comments will close Thursday, 11:59 PM. Winner picked at random. Please enter only once. There may be yarn in the mix as well. 😉
Oranges (for Florida where my sister lives) and
Apples, and I don’t mean Red Delicious. How about Winesaps, Jonathons, Arkansas Blacks, or Spitzenbergs (for the Great Northwest where I live).
Hershey’s chocolate and Elvis!
Maple syrup and hominy grits!
Mason: maple syrup
Dixon: corn bread
Wool and cotton
New York City and Memphis!!
Eating fried dill pickles while walking the freedom trail!
chowda’ and grits!
ben & jerrys and key lime pie!
maple syrup and texas caviar (black eyed peas)!
bobby short and elvis!
i could go on and on, but i won’t…, lucky for you!
Wool & Cotton is just CHEATING for those two – too easy! I’m going to see them tonight and buy my own, but I’d have to say:
Mason JARS & Whistlin’ Dixie.
Also, it’s my husband’s favorite blog because he can call it Manson-Nixon.
Plimoth Plantation and Jamestowne~~how’s that from a former history teacher?
Ooh this one’s easy!! Azaleas and Philly Cheesesteaks!! Not together of course :o)
Lobster (Maine) and Crawfish (Louisiana)
For me, all things come down to food:
Bagels & lox
Daddy’s blackberry cobbler
I gotta say:
Mason: my lovely hubby who supports my yarn habit
Dixon: my beautiful 10mo boy born in Chapel Hill, NC
Go Heels!
rhinebeck and mds+w !
New England Clam Chowder and Black Eyed Peas…nothing beats my meemaw’s black eyed peas fresh from the garden. **dives into pantry and gets out the pressure cooker**
Ooh, I second Christy: lobster & crawfish!
Arcadia National Park and Everglades National Park
Mason: New England Autumns
Dixon: The southern accents!
Mason: A good whomping blizzard, enjoyed from the warmth of in front of the fireplace.
Dixon: Maryland Sheep and Wool. That’s below the line, so it counts!
Mason: barbecued spareribs
eaten by the shore of
Dixon: Rangeley Lake
I gotta steal the philly cheesesteaks because the second I read it I was like oooooh yeah….. I think it may be cheesesteaks for dinner.
Fried chicken and cheesesteaks
Hot dogs and corn dogs 🙂
As a southern gal living in NJ, I could name a lot of things, but I’ll have to go with this:
Mason: My Yankee Husband (from Massachusetts)
Dixon: My Dixie Family (From Virginia and South Carolina/Georgia)
I can’t believe that no one’s answered Ann & Kay yet. 😉
Minneapolis and Atlanta
Sweet Tea and Cream of Wheat
Canadian girl doesn’t really know where the MD line is but:
Mason: Crisp Apples
Dixon: Fuzzy Peaches
Chili and Broadway!
Mmmm, pralines and snow.
“Y’all” (sounds so much better than “you guys”, “youse”)
Crisp fall days and fall foliage
Mason: Maine blueberry wine (really, it tastes so good)
Dixon: Magnolia flowers
Seeing Martina McBride in Lowell, Massachusetts. Gumbo and a Sam Adams.
Since you are seeing the M-D girls, please encourage them to visit us up in Boston!
Oh, Broadway and Bluegrass. And Lobster and peaches. And cranberries and Crepe Myrtle. Autumn splendor and a balmy climate perfect for scuba diving and sunbathing! Clam chowder and Jambalaya. I could go on and on and on!
The options are countless you know…
Mason: mussels and lobster on the beach
Dixon: hush puppies
ahh!! me wants!
Okay well…. eating white rice with teryaki sauce with some SWEET TEA!
I never knew about rice and BUTTER till I came to the south! Apparently down here they put butter on EVERYTHING!! It never in my life occured to me to put butter on my rice, but my mom is from New Jersey lol!
Magnolias and Maple Leaves
Mason: Boston accents
Dixon: southern drawls
or
Mason: fresh winter snowfall
Dixon: warm sunshine in February
Mason: Red ripe Jersey Tomatos
Dixon:BBQ anything…the South does BBQ like no other place on EARTH :o)
Mason: D#1 – born on Lawn Guyland
Dixon: D#2 – born in the Old Dominion
Mason: Pennsylvania, locally grown, sweeeeeeeet corn!
Dixon: Pennsylvania, locally grown, sweeeeeeet corn made into fritters!
Beef on ‘wick(Mason, Buffalo specifially) and Red Velvet Cake(Dixon) 🙂
Lobster and Shrimp Gumbo.
Ok, I’m not reading anyone else’s…so I hope it’s not a repeat:
Nature:
Mason: Autumnal fields of corn (I’m an Ohio girl)
Dixon: Mountainsides sprouting with green in the spring
Food:
Mason: Fresh picked apple pie
Dixon: chicken casserole and fried corn nuggets
Peach cobbler and roasted marshmaollows- yum!
Let’s see:
Key Lime Martinis
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream
But not together.
Autumn leaves and big old oak trees, dripping with moss.
my once and former homes: Maine and DC! I could also say the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles.
Hmmm… Pecan Pie and Broadway.
I like this game!
hmmm….
Mason- cuddling with your sweetie during a snow storm, drinking hot chocolate
Dixon- the accents, definitely. 🙂
I’m going with the food theme that seems to be running rampant
Jersey Tomatos
Hush puppies
New York City lights!
Baton Rouge drawl!
Barbeque is definitely my favorite south of the border thing; the Yankees and snow in April are what I love about the north! (Isn’t it crazy outside?)
Great to see you last night; thanks for the STR/Jaywalker advice!
Pralines and lobster.
Beautiful plantation homes and cold snowy winters. Great contest 🙂
Mason: Sex and the City
Dixon: My Name is Earl
The mountains of East Tennessee
&
My own personal Yankee (who I married much to my Southern grandmother’s chagrin)
Shirley Jackson and lawn flamingos!
Cajun food and fall colors
Mason: First time walking the Freedom Trail and visiting Paul Revere’s house
Dixon: Proudly exercising my birthright to use “ya’ll”, and subsequently infecting all the New England and Canadian actors in the Berkshires with it. I laughed my ass off at, “Wicked cool, eh, ya’ll?”
Ann and Kay, of course!
OK, OK, how ’bout me and you? ;>
And if you want food it would have to be peaches and apples!
Mass transit and ordering mac’n’cheese as a vegetable
My favorite thing
Mason – My hubby & family, they are from KY (yes I like my in-laws).
Dixon – My family – from NY and places north
Kathleen
OOooo,
Mountain Stream Scarf (Dixon) and Jaywalkers (Mason)
(In my world, Dixon always comes first)
Mason:Sushi
Dixon:Tater Salad
Mason–my hubby, arguably the best thing to ever come out of Texas.
Dixon–spring bulbs: tulips, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths…
Crumbs! Got those backwards. Must pour another cup of strong tea.
Broadway;
The Grand Ol’ Opry.
Mason: It’s cold enough to actually WEAR the sweaters you knit.
Dixon: We talk sweeter (no offense). The first time I ever went up north, I stopped in a rest area, and heard a Mommy hurrying her little girl in the bathroom. It sounded so harsh. When we rush our children with our drawl, it sounds sweet.
I do have to admit that I don’t like the predjudice that northerners have when you go up. Many assume that you’re not very smart because of the southern accent. (Kinda like equating us all to Gomer Pyle.)
Philly Cheesesteaks & Sweet Tea!!
Pralines and Hershey’s chocolate 🙂
Shoot, I was going to say maple syrup and grits (and yes they are fantabulous together!), but somebody beat me to it.
So instead I’ll say magnolia blossoms (Dixon) and autumn leaves (Mason).
The Blue Ridge Mountains/Virginia Tech/my Husband (I fell in love with all when I came here) & copious amounts of snow.
So fun! 🙂
Mason: Maple Syrup and Michigan State Spartans
Dixon: Chicken Fried Steak and Oklahoma Sooners
Sinatra and the way my Southern boyfriend calls me “Sugah”
What a great contest! I love reading everyone’s repsonses!
Mason: New England clam chowder, Michigan blueberry pie, and Chicago deep-dish pizza
Dixon: Texas chili, Nawlins jambalaya and Florida oranges
Dang, now I’m hungry.
Mason: paper thin pizza, Dunkin Donuts
Dixon: pulled pork, pralines and spanish moss
My Yankee Mom and my southern gentleman Dad.
Mason: Baltimore Album Quilts and Pennsylvania-Dutch Sausage and Potato Soup
Dixon: My so-Southern-he-spent-summers-on-a-tobacco-farm Sainted Husband, for whom I cook the very anti-Mason dinner of chicken livers, despite having grown up with a Mason family kitchen churning out PA-Dutch cooking; and also my made-in-Fort-Worth, Born-in-Houston, Raised-in-Atlanta Mama, whose absence I feel in my heart every single day.
I wonder what my mom’s Italian side of the family would count as? 🙂
Mason: Lobster Rolls
Dixon: Magnolia trees
Bagels and lox.
Grits and bacon.
Jumbalaya and a Cosmo.
Growing up in Pennsylvania and spending most of my weekends in Maryland at my grandmother’s boat watching the men fishing for crabs at the dock, I would say Philadelphia steak sandwiches and blue crabs caught fresh in the Chesapeake.
mason: the stark, wonderful change of seasons
dixon: the humidity, cuz it is great for my dry, dry skin
Mason: Jars filled with lovely little pickle slices to put on sandwiches, hamburgers, hot dogs, chocolate cake…well, maybe we’ll pass on pickles on the chocolate cake.
Dixon: Um…the little dixie cups that I loved so well as a kid? They were the perfect size for sippage without having to fill a rather under developed bladder. 🙁
Okay, I’m totally being goofy, but my brain can’t handle trying to come up with the whole opposites thing.
I’ll do mine in reverse:
Dixon: Year round watching in the Botanical Gardens (all of them)
Mason: Year round watching in the People Garden (AKA, NYC Subway)
The most amazing thing about these two is both sides of their blog. I mean, it is for them to keep in touch with each other, we just get to evesdrop and polk around in their friendship.
Snow in the tall pines; a southern magnolia tree in full bloom.
This food stuff is making me hungry!
Necco wafers & real brewed iced tea
sushi and chocolate chip cookies.
or
healthy vegeterian chicken nuggets dipped in mayo. yep, both are beyond delicious.. ; )
I’m thinking a bottle of Sam Adams and some chittlins. Yummy.
Little Sebago Lake (Maine) and the Intracoastal Waterway (Florida)
Mason: University of Iowa Hawkeyes
Dixon: Duke Blue Devils
Easy–sitting on Martha’s Vineyard (Mason) with your Boykin Spaniel (Dixon–it’s the State Dog of South Carolina, honest!) And, even better when your dog’s name is FROM Martha’s Vineyard (like, oh, say, Chappaquiddick).
Mason: UNsweet Tea
Dixon: Waffle House (NOT Huddle House, ewwwww)
Listening to Tom Waits while enjoying some Red Beans & Rice
Or I suppose I could have just said Gillian Welch since she is definitely Mason born but totally Dixon in spirit.
Or, how about some Emmy Lou Harris tunes and a great big New York bagel.
Clam/Lobster Bake – Mason
Low Country Boil – Dixon (pronounced ball)
Lived in Rhode Island for 34 years, never thought I’d leave, ended up in the Savannah, Georgia area! Different as night and day – and I call myself the Misplaced Yankee!
Mason: New York cheesecake
Dixon: Gulf shrimp. Or grouper.
Also,
Mason: June, July, and August in Wisconsin
Dixon: November to March in Florida
Banked-track roller derby (was “reborn” in Texas a few years ago) and crab fishermen (think “Deadliest Catch”).
I know, I know, I’m really obscure. But I’m also very weird. 🙂
This is bad, but I thought of another one, well, actually, my son thought of it because it’s my favorite. Coffee Syrup in your milk. YUM
You do know my dog is named Dixie and my cat is named Mason, right? Those are my favorite Mason Dixon things. Except for Kay and Ann, of course.
Cheese Grits and Boston Brown Bread – I’ll never be able to join the low carb lifestyle.
Mason: Brooklyn Bridge
Dixon: Blue Ridge Mountains
Mason: Real New York pizza
Dixon: Ribs and cornbread
Mason: Pittsburgh Steelers
Dixon: Piggly Wiggly
Even though it’s been said several times, my northern family and my southern husband.
Mason: Bruce Springsteen
Dixon: Bruce Hornsby
I love visiting the North – the fast pace, the “call it like it is” people, the shopping, the shows, the sports, and the four full seasons that northerners get to experience; but I love living in the South – knowing I’ll never have to shovel snow, that I have to specify “sweet or unsweet” when I order tea, that often city names are pronounced much, much differently than they look (Luhvuhle) and that you can almost always count on a smile or a hello when passing people on the street.
Mason: clam chowder
Dixon: jambalaya
Yumm now I am hungry……….
Mason: Mom’s chicken soup and Daddy’s lemon torte (all from Oregon)
Dixon: Grandma (Arkansas) and Papa (Oaklahoma) cooking fried chicken, onion rings and apple pie for Sunday dinner
Howya doin’?
How ya’ll doin’?
Sorry hard to get the accent across on here.
Mason: Birch beer
Dixon: Sweet Tea
What a great idea! This has been so much fun reading everyone’s answers! Here are mine:
North: Bed & Breakfast Inns in Vermont
South: pralines
crabcakes & lynchburg lemonade
mason – jonathan richmond
dixon – johnny cash
hoopskirts and subways! 🙂
chill-bumps (Dixon)
and
Northern Lights (Mason)
Deep-dish pizza & SWEET TEA.
Oh, how I love you both.
🙂
Mason: Crab Apples
Dixon: Jambalaya
Mason: Natural stone walls
Dixon: Azaleas
Mason: Building forts in plowed snow banks
Dixon: Running around outside in a cotton shower.
Can you tell I’ve enjoyed living in both climes?
Mason – Philadelphia Flower Show
Dixon – Stone Mountain Georgia
Tetley tea and Skor Ice cream
Well, I live in a MasonDixon household, but picking just one thing is hard:
Curling up with a hot bowl of seafood gumbo on a snowy midwestern winter’s night while listening to Rebirth Brass Band.
How about:
Y’all & Youse guys!!
Mason: Chicago style pizza!
Dixon: the accents of the populace (I know, I know, what accents) 🙂
Mason: Cosmopolitan
Dixon: Mint Julep
Boiled peanuts and roasted peanuts.
Mason: Duncan Donuts Coffee
Dixon: Plate lunches
Mason: watching the first snowfall, from inside, during the evening, lit by streetlights
Dixon: Texas Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush fields in April!!
Mason: Passenger Trains
Dixon: Sweet Iced Tea
Mmmmm…..
Fresh flounder and
My friend Ann with the draaawl….
both are wonderful!
I’m going to say Maryland, my home state. It’s South of the Mason/Dixon line yet considered a “Northern” state to many! (Or if I have to be more specific: Mason – Hershey Chocolate and Dixon – Waffle House)
Mason: potato knishes
Dixon: sweet iced tea
Hmmmm I’d have to say my momma’s chicken & Dressing is the dixon, the Chicago Cubs (maybe this year!) are my Mason
Long Island Ice Tea & Sweet Tea
waffle house and salt box houses
Looks like I missed the deadline, but I’ll tell you one set anyway: birch/aspen woods and pansies blooming outside in late December.
aw, i regret reading this so late…
i’m a nyc’er transplanted into durham, nc…
mason: pastrami sandwiches (Second Ave Deli)
dixon: fried green tomatoes (Mama Dip’s)
Those two might not be the healthiest food, but at least you will eat happy. 🙂
For me I think it’s the best of both worlds with the seasons. The beautiful summers and autumns sitting on the veranda sipping mint juleps of Mason, and the beautiful (long-awaited!)springs and white Christmases of Dixon.
Mason: Cranberry Juice
Dixon: Biscuits and Gravy
Ben & Jerry’s–any flavor, and a pulled pork barbeque sandwich with sweet tea
corn cakes and syrup
Broadway and fried green tomatoes!
Pawley’s Island, SC and Fairfield Pond, VT!
Mason: snowy, white Christmases
Dixon: getting a tan on New Year’s Eve
Biscuits and gravy!
And a lobster on the side!
Country Music and Broadway Musicals!
Boston and Disney World
BBQ & Mac ‘n Cheese (not KD)
Maple Syrup on snow
Cincinnati Chili and Texas BBQ
My Mama (Louisiana) and my Dad (Connecticut) both very different, but better as a pair.
MASON: NYC
DIXON: biscuits. (And not the kind in the can that the masoners eat.)
Hershey’s and grits.. mmm
Emily Dickinson and Emmylou Harris…
I was born in Massachusetts and lived most of my adult life south of the Mason-Dixon line so I know a bit of both.
I love fire fly summer nights sipping sweet tea from the lawn (for the southerner in me) and family clam bakes (mom’s clam chowda’, clam cakes, steamers, sweet corn, polished off with slabs of watermelon and seed spitting contests)for the northern side.
Then, too, there is early spring in the south with the glorious flowering trees and white christmases in the north.
Biscuits and gravy for breakfast on a real autumn morning, with leaves changing and everything (actually, this combination is pretty common in the south half of Illinois, where I grew up – sort of the best of both worlds)
I’m so excited that Katherine met you and you met her. It is a Kevin Bacon moment!
Mason: Cape Cod
Dixon: Sanibel Island
or
Mason: Doonesbury
Dixon: Pogo
or
Mason: New England Clam Chowder
Dixon: Jalapeno Cheese Grits
Too hard to decide!
First time commenter here…I’ve been lured to your blog by your gorgeous photos.
Fried chicken and Autumn weather (especially the changing leaves).
How about chicken fried chicken (with gravy, of course) (Dixon) and a good old hot dog with sauerkraut on it (Mason)
Turning leaves and sweet tea. 🙂
my most favorite thing mason: my mother. it’s her married name. and my most favorite thing dixon: also, my mother. it’s her maiden name!
Mason: freak snowstorms in April
Dixon: public swim opens in April
The smell of pine trees at the lake in summer in Maine. The pink of flamingoes in the Florida Everglades.
Kringle from O and H bakery in Wisconsin.
Ribs at the Rendevous in Memphis.
Cool, crisp autumn
Sweltering summer
Mason: Painted Post, NY
Dixon: Arkadelphia, AR
Mason: Winter, Copper Beech Trees, the Bronx Zoo
Dixon: Summer, Banyan Trees, the Parrott Jungle
well, I don’t want to be in your contest, but my most favorite thing Mason is Kay and most favorite thing Dixon is Ann …..
sincerely yours,
Lt. Uhura
Yankee Pot Roast and Collard Greens.
Mason: Maple Syrup and the colour of fall leaves (hey I am Canadian)
Dixon: Corn bread and magnolia trees
Cold Winters and Hot Summers
Hmm… Maple syrup and corn bread.
Mason: blue lakes
Dixon: blue skies
Mason: New York Pizza!
Dixon: Southern Fried Chicken!
Mason – A boyfriend in college who was hot
Dixon – my name! 😉
I’m going to go a little more abstract… 🙂
Mason: Jars
Dixon: cups
(or was that Dixie cups?? 🙂
Vermont foliage in late October and Graceland in June!
Mason: Snow days!
Dixon: Mmmmmm… chess pie. Or pecan pie. Or buttermilk biscuits. Or hush puppies… howabout just: the food!
Fiber’s too easy… wool and cotton.
Food’s the second obvious target:
Bagels with lox and Sweet potato pie.
A pulled pork sandwich and a tall glass of Long Island ice tea.
Up North: Fall colors, the onset (at last) of spring, and rhubarb.
Down South: Barbecue sandwiches with slaw as a condiment and North Carolina beaches.
Great contest ideas — made me think about what I miss from when we lived in NC, and what I love about living in Michigan.
Bruce Springsteen — Lucinda Williams
(d’ya think I’m hoping for extra points with my Mason choice???)
New England Clam Chowdah
AND
Paula Deen (anyone for butter and heavy cream?)
Both Tree things:::: Pecans, yum in so many ways…and Maple Syrup…yummy!
maine summers and florida winters
My own true love — the Man is an original Jersey boy, born in Jersey City
and
drinking sweet tea while sitting on a porch rocker or old metal glider under a painted blue ceiling
mint and peanut butter, in a coleslaw. (I swear, it’s delicious.)
Ben & Jerry’s (White Russian) and Jambalaya. Not together though.
My Mom (Kansas) and my Dad (Oklahoma, which is sometimes considered Southern, according to Wikipedia.)
The fact that New York is rebuilding site of the twin towers bigger and better than ever as a nice “screw you” to the rest of the world.
AND
The attitude that us here in New Orleans have about rebuilding and renovating our city… and the incredible amounts of help that the rest of the country (both Mason and Dixon) have sent our way.
Mason: Philadelphia Flower Show; fall leaves.
Dixon: Florida’s palm trees; the southern summer sky
Mason: cool, crisp autumn air and the crunch of fall leaves underfoot
Dixon: pecans (especially pralines)
My sister (from Virginia) and her husband (from massachusettes)
My Mom’s Garlic Grits
Skating at Rockafellow Center ( haven’t done it yet but plan to “some” day.
Mason: Ice
Dixon: Okra
Oh no, wait. Favourite things
Mason: Knitting wool
Dixon: Knitting cotton
Maple trees and magnolias. Popovers and fried chicken. Plus, Smith College (where I went to undergrad) and UVA (where I went to law school)!
The Philadelphia Flyers and the Nashville Predators!
Suger raised doughnut (from Dunkin’ Donuts) and a powdered beignet!
Dixon: carolina BBQ, sweet tea, and my sisters and brother! 😉
mason: my husband and my parents