Got me to a Farmer's Market

Yes, as the title of this post suggests, I finally went to a Farmer's Market this year. Don't ask me why I had such a bee in my bonnet about it, but the many posts on Jocelmeow's blog, not to mention 3pennyjane's mention of Farmer's Market funtimes were certainly upping the jealousy factor.

Pinchloaf and I hit the closest market, which happened to be in Del Ray, that cute little area of Alexandria not two miles away from home. It was substanstially smaller than I'd expected, not that I've been to so many Farmer's Markets. This one just took up a corner parking lot and had about 20 small tents and stalls. It was crowded, and since we got there around 10, a lot people were almost out of everything.

We got 2 quarts of sweet cherries, a quart of strawberries, a whole mess of baby zucchini and squash, tri-colored peppers, several heads of garlic, uhhhhh, some other stuff too, I think.

After buying a pint of blueberries at Whole Foods, I ventured into the world of baking, and made a yummy cherry-blueberry crisp. I ate the leftover cherries from that quart on Sunday and have eaten a goodly portion of the second quart today. You hear that, Jocelmeow? I'm eating stone fruits just like you told me to!

In other news, my energy level increases with each passing day. Yesterday Pinchloaf and I went to Huntley Meadows. It was his first time, my hundredth, and it's such a cool place. We saw two great blue herons, two green-backed herons, countless painted turtles and ducks, a dozen or so deer, and a non-poisonous snake among other things. Pinchloaf saw a beaver, as did two other guys who were near us, but I missed it--boo! I haven't seen a beaver there in probably 15 years. Insert your own dirty joke here.