A manipulated image (effects from Topaz Studio 2) depicting two varieties of butternut squash: the light orange, elongated Waltham variety, and the green-striped, rounder delicata variety. For sale at a local farm.

Visually (in terms of shape, size, and color) one of my favorite vegetables. Those pictured are of the honeynut variety.

One of summer's simplest pleasures... the sweet pea.

Hope you are all enjoying whatever your simple pleasures are.

Thank you so much for the views and comments!!! Very much appreciated! :-)

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More hot green peppers, here on display in bright sunlight at a farmers market.

Ripe tomatoes for sale at the local farmers' market.

Vendor with a well-stocked stand at a farmers' market in early July.

first strawberries of the year at the farmers market this morning

Applebarn Pumpkin Farm, Abbotsford, BC. September 29, 2020.

In my backyard, enjoying a warm summer evening when I spot this hawk on a rooftop of my neighbour. I sure hope it wasn't the baby robin that left it's nest last week.

Applebarn Pumpkin Farm, Abbotsford, BC. September 29, 2020.

Display of plum tomatoes at a farmers' market.

Sweet red peppers on sale at a farmers' market, spilling over from one box to another. Cropped to square format. (explored)

Zucchini on sale at the Brizzell Family Farm stand at the Delmar NY farmers' market.

Infrared image pf excellent, locally-grown, organically-grown vegetables for sale at the local farmers' market. IR color profile derived from 590 IR filter using color modifications in Photoshop and Camera Raw. I like the suggestion of translucence in the vegetables.

Tray of tomatoes at the farmers' market (explored)

A woman buying vegetables at the local farmers' market, at the peak of the fall harvest.

Funk Farms takes its name from Funk Road, located in Rensselaer County, New York. It sells baked goods at various farmers' markets in the region.

Delicata squash sold by vegetable vendor at upstate New York farmers' market.

A mid-morning view of one of the first market days of spring 2023.

A small display of produce on the last outdoor farmers market of the season, held on October 29. A smaller market is held indoors in the adjacent middle school during the winter.

Photo from Delmar NY farmers' market; farm located east of Amsterdam, NY

Organic produce displayed at the farmers market.

Barn with pumpkins and sign at Indian Ladder Farms during fall festival. Indian Ladder's specialties are apples and cider (very large orchards) but they sell large numbers of pumpkins and other produce as well. Very popular locally.

At Pike Place, people take pleasure in a relatively humble architecture that connects them to the past and provides plenty of opportunity for social interaction. ... A market can offer the prospect of racial, ethnic, and economic integration-better, probably, than any other part of a city. Cities can benefit from such strong, humane, functional focal points.

Philip Langdon, et.al. (Urban Excellence. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1990. p. 62).

A large apple orchard and farm at the end of a fall festival. Very popular locally.

Eat Local at the Burien, WA Farmers Market

Lunch stop at Kahuku, Oahu, Hawai'i.

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In a cup made by Kinya Ishikawa, Val David

Yellow and green peppers and plum tomatoes at a farmers' market.

We have a sunny day on Saturday and I had a walk in Steveston after the taste of Pajo's fish and chips.

Enjoying the sunlight. Enjoying the shadow. Enjoying the colours.

Wish all of you also a beautiful weekend!

This is done with my 10 years old Fuji S3 Pro camera. It still produces good colours.

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NYC: Vintage Wines / Upper West Side

Eat local Drink local (NY cheese & wines)

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Delmar NY farmers' market

Surprisingly quick and easy to make. Served here with butter, lemon, salt, pepper.

Here's the recipe

The Little Red Hen

HEALTHY LIVING for me involves making much of our family food from local ingredients. And you can't get any more local than the Evans Cherry ( a sour cherry) tree 20 feet from my back door! Today we picked the fruit and within 2 hours turned into jam. Making my own healthy jam means I'm in control of the ingredients .... and I'm supposed to be in control of how much of it I eat :) ... Sometimes HEALTHY LIVING can be difficult!

for the Macro Monday challenge HEALTHY LIVING

i picked up some eggs at beacon natural market this morning. every time i go, i see the sign for "glynwood farms - local eggs," but they're always sold out. today i bought my first dozen, happy to support a farm one town away. when i got home, i opened the container to see what they looked like -- and i was blown away by their abundant beauty.

Sweet corn and purple corn in the store at an organic farm, showing repeating patterns at two scales.

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