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