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

If You Saw a Heat Wave, Would You Wave Back?

"In summer, the song sings itself"  William Carlos Williams
(Flowers by Ka Vang)

"Summer's lease has all too short a date."
-  William Shakespeare  
(Hibiscus at Country Bloomers)

Flowers are without hope.  Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin  (Flowers by Natalie)

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat   
(Hydrangea at Morningwood)

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox   (flowers by Yang Vang)

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore    (flowers by Kelly Lor)

Instead of a theme...this week you can win a gift certificate to the market by identifying the author of the title.  First two correct entries win; stop by the Information Tent or send your contact information when you post the answer.

Vendor View

 

Everyone lives by selling something.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 Looking out from Ethel Ann's Southern Style Bakery

The view from RP's Pasta....(the lemon pepper linguine was popular on this day)

The view from Pleasant Springs Orchard

Looking out from Edelweiss

The view from Stella's Bakery

The view from the Information Tent

Looking out from Natalie's

A very good sign to a vendor...empty bins tipped up to dry before the ride home.

Looking out from Bonde Bee

 

Must get to the market earlier next week....

Identify the two vendors across from Stella's...post your answer on our Facebook page and win a market gift certificate!  (Beth, the blueberries are in!  Pick up your gift certificates!)

"The Road is Made by Walking"

Manly feet

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

New feet

"Little feet that do not know
Where the winding roadways go..."  Edgar Guest

Mother Daughter feet

“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.” - David Bly

 Interesting Feet

"Nation's Supply of Dotted Socks Endangered by Failure to Raise Debt Ceiling."

Restless feet

"A spirit in my feet said go, and I went"

 Wounded feet

"I told the doctor that my foot was broken in two places.  He told me to stop going to those places"
Henny Youngman

Reticent Feet

"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled."   Jane Addams, first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Working feet

"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. " Samuel Beckett

Patriotic feet
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"  Lily Tomlin

Comfortable feet
"The road goes ever, ever on, down from the door where it began..." Tolkien


Each week there is a theme to the post.  Guess the theme, put it the comments section; stop by the market Information Tent to see if you've won a $5 gift certificate.  Earliest bird wins the prize.  (Note!  This week's theme is not "feet")