Link, Spring
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I went to the farmer's market this morning, as I do, generally, on Saturdays, sad as it is this time of year. Winter in the north means that nothing exciting is growing locally, so the only offerings are the things that are done indoors- cheese and bread, mostly- or the root vegetables- onions and carrots and potatoes and parsnips. Which are all good, I grant you, but when I compare them to what's there in summer- ripe, red tomatoes and tiny sweet strawberries and dusty grapes- a parsnip is, well, sort of boring. It's been a winter where I've felt guilty about complaining, because it hasn't been very cold. Snow has been infrequent and even when it fell it didn't last, and it's hard to whine about freezing when the temperature's been above the freezing point much more often than not.
But today! For the first time this year, I saw that they'd brought the flowers out. All the earliest spring ones; daffodils and crocuses and tulips, in yellow and purple and pink and blue and white, and green of course, the bright new grass-green of leaves and shoots. Every color that the winter products don't have. It made me happy.
I went to the farmer's market this morning, as I do, generally, on Saturdays, sad as it is this time of year. Winter in the north means that nothing exciting is growing locally, so the only offerings are the things that are done indoors- cheese and bread, mostly- or the root vegetables- onions and carrots and potatoes and parsnips. Which are all good, I grant you, but when I compare them to what's there in summer- ripe, red tomatoes and tiny sweet strawberries and dusty grapes- a parsnip is, well, sort of boring. It's been a winter where I've felt guilty about complaining, because it hasn't been very cold. Snow has been infrequent and even when it fell it didn't last, and it's hard to whine about freezing when the temperature's been above the freezing point much more often than not.
But today! For the first time this year, I saw that they'd brought the flowers out. All the earliest spring ones; daffodils and crocuses and tulips, in yellow and purple and pink and blue and white, and green of course, the bright new grass-green of leaves and shoots. Every color that the winter products don't have. It made me happy.
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Date: 2008-03-01 08:47 pm (UTC)Yay! Spring flowers!
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Date: 2008-03-01 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-02 09:17 pm (UTC)oh, and yay flowers. But really! "I am hope" - Love it.
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Date: 2008-03-09 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-03-09 11:30 pm (UTC)Farmers markets are so awesome! Even if I forgot to go this week.
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Date: 2008-03-09 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-03-09 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-10 12:00 am (UTC)