Good grief!! – just LOOK!!!

I missed so many markets because of heat/smoke/summer traffic and my own wimpy-ness in dealing with the aforementioned.

I (and Bear) went to town yesterday and I hadn’t thought I’d go today (Saturday!!!), but I looked at the calendar and after today there were only 4 Farmer’s Market Saturdays before the market was done for the year.

It is prime time for local produce, so I told Bear that in the mode of Big Dog, i.e. “if you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch” … off we went to market, because WE are BIG DOGS!!!

YES, we are! The traffic was not as bad as it has been since some of the summer tourist stuff is done. And even though it was forecast to hit 84F this afternoon, this morning was cool and beautiful.

AND, we came home with sunflowers, carrots, a GIGANTIC leek, purple cabbage, the greenest and most luscious broccoli I’ve ever seen, heirloom cherry tomatoes, PEACHES (Montana Peaches!!) and golden plums.

The peaches were the big surprise. The grower is from Rollins, Montana which is a town on the west (west-southwest) side of Flathead Lake. Peaches!!! – from Montana … and from a town near me. The peaches are destined for a peach-ginger sorbet and also for a peach aqua Fresca. I might just eat the golden plums – they are super sweet and delicious. (I actually have about a dozen peaches and plums…only a few were added to the photo above.)

Not sure about everything else, but this week…this week, I will be eating fresh and local produce – and loving it!