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plonqWe rode down to St. Johns Park this afternoon to check out the community picnic. There was a pretty good turn-out, but in typical North End fashion, the vast majority of the people who turned up were standing in the near-endless line for free food.
One of the vendors at the farmers' market this morning had a variety of colourful carrots for sale. When she saw me pull out the camera for a shot, she got flustered and insisted that I let her spray them down first. Once I'd got a couple of shots she politely asked which paper the article was going to be in. It's interesting that SLRs have become so scarce these days that when people see one they immediately assume you are a professional. I told her that I was just taking pictures for a personal web site, but in retrospect I wish I had simply made up a name for some obscure publication.
"Oh, well these shots will be for an article on heritage vegetables in the New Denver Post-Marxist Environmental Times. I can't promise that they will use these pictures though, since we have agents at other farmers' markets as well."
I saw these spiky balls and went, "Meh, a picture's a picture." It was late.
Can you name all the varieties of tomatoes in this basket?
I am appalled at the homogeneity of the food we buy in the grocery stores. I wonder how many people know that carrots come in so many colours and shapes?
This vendor's table was a veritable feast of colours. The chard and kale also made a pretty combination.
Right now people are selling fresh cut flowers. Give it another 5-6 weeks and these same folks will be selling dried flowers. The market becomes progressively more colourful as the season advances.
One of the vendors at the farmers' market this morning had a variety of colourful carrots for sale. When she saw me pull out the camera for a shot, she got flustered and insisted that I let her spray them down first. Once I'd got a couple of shots she politely asked which paper the article was going to be in. It's interesting that SLRs have become so scarce these days that when people see one they immediately assume you are a professional. I told her that I was just taking pictures for a personal web site, but in retrospect I wish I had simply made up a name for some obscure publication.
"Oh, well these shots will be for an article on heritage vegetables in the New Denver Post-Marxist Environmental Times. I can't promise that they will use these pictures though, since we have agents at other farmers' markets as well."
I saw these spiky balls and went, "Meh, a picture's a picture." It was late.
Can you name all the varieties of tomatoes in this basket?
I am appalled at the homogeneity of the food we buy in the grocery stores. I wonder how many people know that carrots come in so many colours and shapes?
This vendor's table was a veritable feast of colours. The chard and kale also made a pretty combination.
Right now people are selling fresh cut flowers. Give it another 5-6 weeks and these same folks will be selling dried flowers. The market becomes progressively more colourful as the season advances.
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Date: 2010-08-22 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-22 02:14 pm (UTC)I remember hearing an saying attributed to the Italians that the more lumpy the tomato the better it tastes.