People, Big and Small

"The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation" - Captain James Cook - 1779   Too true, Captain Cook.  We are speculating about the message here.

“Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.”

 Chinese Proverbs quotes

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan

"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."  (Robert Louis Stevenson)

(This munchkin followed her shadow all down the market.)

Wonderful face!  Great smile!  These flowers must be for someone special, right?  Nope; they're to decorate a house for sale. (Think about it, ladies.)

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel

 New Millennium little red wagon.  Love the back support; there's a USB port next to the seat belt, too.

Same t-shirts, same smiles, same eyes......brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

Whatever the Weather, again

Another hybrid weather day; we start out wet again.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Charles Kingsley

I like reality. It tastes like bread. ~ Jean Anouilh

People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The shoemaker's daughter goes shopping

The puddle might be deeper than you thought.

Some people love a wet day.....

 ...other people are not amused.

Wear Your Opinions to Market part one

Motivational philosophy

A mysterious implication

This t-shirt is twenty years old said the owner.

Don't be shy...tell us what you really think...

 

Movie star

A certain kind of pride

Market glam

Creativity makes a statement too.

These days, the dirt does need a friend.

Deja Vu'

Last Saturday, about 7 am.  The vendors are ready and no early morning rain keeps a dedicated market shopper away.   "Feels like it's my private market in the rain," says one shopper, "There's no rush for coffee and everybody has time to talk."

"Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water."
— Douglas Coupland

 A few minutes later and....let the day begin, again:

There is shopping to do

Umbrellas  forgotten; sunhats recalled.

Multi-tasking market van

 

Weather Ambiguity

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
Ilka Chase   We began the market with weather like this.....

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust  .....and suddenly, a summer rain; a different day.

 But vendors and shoppers are sturdy folk and after some sheltering under umbrellas and tents.....

 
 We finish the market like this.....

 Despite the fickle weather, there are sunflowers waiting for the final customer of the day.
 

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.  ~George Scialabra

 In 24 hours, this hibiscus will become.....

...okuru ( in Ethiopian),  kingombo (Bantu), guigambo (Portuguese), okree (my grandmother).  The list of nutritional benefits from okra gets lengthy and boring to read, so let's sum up :  antinflammatory, diuretic, and a tendency to gently restore balance to a disturbed gastro-intestinal system.  Mostly, it's delicious quickly stir-fried and dressed with lemon or vinegar.  Think of it as...silky. 

 

Never eat anything with a face (Primrose Community Farm)

 The fruit of the bees  (B's Honey)

The August birth flower is the gladiolus which means sincerity and symbolizes strength of character. Love at first sight is what the hidden message of this flower was during the Victorian era.

Blessings

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” Mahatma Gandhi "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." Franklin D. Roseveldt It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms." Henry Cabot Lodge

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
Shirley MacLaine