This is the best part of summer. The fresh fruits and veggies are plentiful and you have to love the Farmer's Markets where the not so common things appear in baskets and tubs and big enameled bowls.
I have been stopping to take notice of little stands along the road and I am making my purchases of fresh vegetables..from a place where they are grown locally. I am paying homage to my grandmother's grandmother's, my great aunts and everyone I can remember who have carefully handled fresh produce. The cardboard, hand lettered signs are remarkably the same as they were 50 years ago and are tucked carefully between ripe vegetables. Prices have changed. Some stands are more sophisticated and have beautiful stripped awnings to protect their produce from the sun's blazing rays yet, I am amazed to find there are still places that have coffee cans with a slit cut in the cover and carefully written notes that read, "Please pay here...we work on the honor system". And....who doesn't love the splashes of color that flowers add to farmer's markets and stands alongside the road? Flowers call to be put in the vase or milk bottle that mother used on the kitchen table many years ago.
"Thank You" to the people who put out the checked tablecloths on the side of the road....the ones who pick the flowers from their gardens and place them out in a roadside stand to sell. My hat is off to anyone who has ever sold anything that represents their own hard work....And here's a request from me to you....please support these entrepreneurs....especially the ones that have make shift stands and signs made by children that say, "Kool Aid 5 Cents". They are our entrepreneurs of the future.
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