Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Seaside Farmer's Market

This morning on the beach we watched hundreds of glinting little fish leaping--and 50 or so pelicans hanging about to take advantage. Big surf by Gulf standards: perhaps Ike's churning things up?







A couple of weekends ago, while the poker crew was still here, we visited the last Seaside Farmer's Market of the season, E chomping at the bit to get there the minute it opened, having in mind the early bird/worm. But it's not really a surprise that a FM at the beach might be run by a certain kind of laissez-faire slacker, so our early start gave us the opportunity to watch folks set up. Instead of the pickup trucks and Good Country People we would have seen just 5 hours to the north in Toosa, we observed middle-aged women in SUV's unloading their wares. Not much here at the ditch end of summer, but one kind of produce we'd never heard of before: organic meat muffins! (Of course we should have tried one, but we didn't: adventure-challenged sometimes.)

Altho the produce was very expensive at Off the Vine (having been shipped in most instances from far far away), the Winesaps were dee-lish.

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