On Saturday I was up early and visited the Farmer's Market here in Duluth.
I have posted photos from our spunky little market here previously, so I didn't bother taking any photos. I did, however, purchase a couple of new perennials there. One being a succulent - but native to much warmer climates and so I'll have to pot it and be able to bring it indoors as it's not rated to our arctic/frozen tundra zone.
I also purchased a variety of hot pepper which has purplish blooms and it's leaves are lined in purple as well.
After leaving the Duluth FM, I remembered hearing or reading that there was a Farmer's Market over in Superior, Wisconsin across the bridge from here. The location was out on Barker's Island, which I hadn't visited in years. I took a ride over the bridge and to the island, discovering that it has changed a fair bit since my last visit. The mini-golf is still there, as well as the boat tours, but there was a new building for the Vista Scenic Tour boats as well as some guy playing acoustic guitar for visitors and a small pavilion (suitable for a band or picnic area) and a statue to honour the Great Lakes Seamen (i giggled @ seamen..semen...lol norty sailor boys!) I don't remember seeing before and didn't bother to take note if it had an installation date or any such date - and the photo I took doesn't really zoom in enough to sort it:
For some reason, the add photo or blog entry editing features have disappeared from the top of this post, so I'll have to add in the photos and take care of some editing in the future.
Ok, so...back to the story.
So I arrive at Barker's Island, drive through the parking lot that is said to have had the Farmer's Market's expo area and find about 5 makeshift 'tents' set up and one couple with a pick-up truck backed up next to one of the tented vendors. All vendors had a numbered card proclaiming their right to be at the Superior Farmer's Market.
The first gentleman offered scones and some select baked goods, the woman next to him some arts and crafts, the woman next to her, plants and perennials, then a hotdog vendor wagon, and circling left the manure man (and his wife), then someone offering veggie starts - limited, and then someone selling early onions and lettuce. I was totally taken with her offerings as she had many of the perennials I had lost to weather in the past few years as well as vegetable starts with the best prices I have ever seen at any local market. The small starts, in Styrofoam cups ($1-1.50 ea) or small and medium containers ($3 ea), proved to be a bargain (most garden centers offer the same size container, yet have different prices for each depending on their content) as she had so many varieties, as well as photos to show them in their natural environment - hence my pics being a bit sub-par, but a valiant effort in dead to attempt to capture on film the best and worst as well as the exciting and supercharged versus (pics to follow tomorrow when I can get back into preferences)
Anyway, I am so drained, and yet very contented.
Like after an extraordinary orgasm.
Care to play along?
*passes you a tissue*
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