Things Seen

Imagine what it must

 be like if you have to earn money

 doing something you hate or only like a little bit.

 

On a more cheerful note, consider the lilies

and other good midsummer stuff at the green market.

The strawberries are the proper size: ie small

I never use sage in cooking. It goes beautifully with liver

fegato alla salvia

My family would have a fit (except the dog)

 so I just look at it instead.

 

Dazzle

In the depths of winter the green market at Union Square

 is subdued with left-over apples, 

a few potatoes, and

absurdly expensive little bits of mesclun salad.

Now zinnias blaze.

In midsummer there are wild traffic-light, traffic-stopping stalks.

Of what. Rhubarb? Salady stuff?

Someone will tell me.

(They did. Swiss Chard. Sue was the first!)

There is a nice friendly bee on the sunflower.

Are bees coming back? I do hope they are.

There are peaches that taste like peaches instead of those odd,

hard, fuzzy lumps they sell in the supermarket.

Fancy sunflowers.....

... plums for plum crumble.

Geranium leaves fall on the black-eyes susies.

There are snapdragons which long to be carried

 by a flower girl at a summer wedding...

...and good snacks to be had.

Who knew that tea-cosies could be WILD?

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Green Market for the 4th

The green market at Union Square was lovely yesterday.

Then I discovered I had left my camera at home 

so into the breech steps celebrity guest photographer

Adam Powell with his trusty cell phone.

Hydrangeas.

Ripe tomatoes.

Strawberries galore.........

and some daikon

(many thanks to those who identified them!)

Here's hoping you and yours have blues skies

good food and good company.

HAPPY 4th