The sun shone through some gaps in the clouds yesterday, albeit briefly. It is amazing how energizing and uplifting the sun is, we could just feel it doing good as we walked around town, a couple of other folks mentioned the same feeling to us.
Mind you they were both in the senior bracket of years lived, that’s when you appreciate more what nature is all about.
The break in the drizzle and the new found energy had us both out doing a final clean up of the front and side yards and a clipping of the grass. The last of the lingering snow patches had finely melted, though some ice is still hanging in just under the surface.
I needed the lift from the sun too, I was a bit down after listening to CBC’s Weekend A arts Magazine, they had a segment live from the first Farmer Market of the season in St. John ’s. Lot’s of greens and fresh herbs on sale, lots of mention of ‘all this sunshine’ is good for the farmers. Our day will come, our day will come.
I am not sure what townies mean by ‘greens’ really. Does it mean greens literally or does it also include tomatoes, peppers, melons etc.
Any way the real reason I was feeling down listening to the Farmers Market piece was it brought back memories of the markets in Montreal and Florence and Halifax and Ottawa and Athens, OK I won’t go on.
So looking out the window is not a good idea for the feel good psychic, it is bloody snowing again.
The level 3 students from JHMS had their graduation yesterday and last evening. Our grandson Brian John was among the 16 who made it all that way.
We both attended the church service at 5 but only one of us could go to the grad dinner and dance. There was a maximum 6 to a grad table so some had to forgo.
For some reason the dinner dance took rather a long time, it was scheduled to start at 7. Fran came home at 10 and said she got tired of sitting down; the speeches were still underway with the dance of the grads not looking like taking place any time soon.
One thing that I did notice, and I am not sure if it is significant as I have not been to a grad for about 4 or 5 years, and that is out of 16 grads the majority were males [correction, 8 n 8]. It seemed in the past the majority always seemed to be females. I could be corrected on that though.
12:50 Just waiting for the snow and drizzle to stop before our walk. Our time will come.
4 comments:
Interesting topic! What are greens? Down in these parts, anything not fast enough to avoid the salad shears is fair game. I've seen folks right proud of their poke and dandelion greens on various plates here. Although I'm personally Leary of both since poison is an issue. There are so many edible plants here, one wonders what is the limit to the pallet. But here in the south, there are a host of foods that never darken your doors. Much like myself trying to find Salt Cod and Salt Beef. Those may as well be only available on Venus here. Much less any of the country food sought there.
We have a new Farmer's Market in my town every Thursday, last week was the first time, and I forgot to go and check it out, but I'll be going to look at the veg this coming Thursday. There's a large Farmer's Market held every weekend just outside town, and it used to have an animal auction every Saturday (cows, pigs, horses, chickens etc) but it's mostly brass lamps, sunglasses, teeshirts and socks made in China now.
LOL! That must be a universal feature of "Farmer's Markets" everywhere. Every thing for sale there, but what is grown on the farm. They are all mostly "Flea Markets" here too. We have to drive 90km if we want to take our chickens too the market. We gave up and now sell on the roadside if at all.
By the sound of the broadcast from St. John’s market it sounded like there is an element of crafts and other non food items, not sure to if it has a flea market feel to it.
I know Montreal has at least two genuine farmers markets scattered among streets with very high quility food retailers.
I would not be against a ‘country food market’ for up here, it would go a long way in fighting the high costs of shipping other meats in not to mention the nutritional value that wild food has.
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