What color, you may ask, is delighted?
Delighted is a color you’ve never seen before. No, that’s not right. Perhaps you’ve seen the color before, or something close, but never on this fruit or that vegetable. Delighted is black raspberries, deep violet blue with a silvered bloom. Delighted is carrots the pale yellow of summer’s sun-bleached tresses. Delighted is plump, shiny, ruby-tinted scallions.
But what, you ask, of the colors you have seen before? Kale’s bluish-green ruffles, sweet peas’ crumpled pastel tints, raspberries heady hot pink? Have their visual splendors been dulled by familiarity? No, no. These colors are long-time loves, their pleasures known, yet freshly appreciated each time they are encountered. One could be content — happy, even — only with these.
But there’s always room for more delight in one’s life.
These visual delights and pleasures brought to you by the Queen Anne Farmers’ Market, every Thursday afternoon until October 4, 3 – 7 p.m., at the corner of Crockett Street and 1st Avenue West. Seattle, in case you didn’t know. Let me know if you’ll be stopping by.
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I love those colours of nature, of life! It’s so important to be able to treasure all these wonderful details around us – thanks for sharing these lovely pics:)
Oooh… those photographs of the market produce!! A great little advertisement for the market. I hope to be in Seattle for a short visit near the end of August so I must look up the map and see if I can find my way there. And then exercise a bit of self control and not buy everything I see…
Ms Soup
Stopping by to say hello….
When I first clicked on your blog I thought: what glorious pictures. Then I read your words and discovered that glorious pictures are needed if they are going to introduce such a delicious prose.
Now, I am want to rush out to the farm market. Which might not be wise at three in the morning. So, I must wait to be delighted!
I’ll come visit your farmer’s market if you come visit mine!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen sweet peas so pretty.
Black raspberries! I’ve only seen such a thing in the candy counter. Neat.
I never asked, do you grow all these or are they just from wandering around the market? Eitherway they are lovely! I should do a market report of my local market sometime too…
Pia K: Thanks for stopping by. I’m glad you enjoyed the photos.
Brenda: There are farmers markets in Seattle 5 days a week, Wednesday through Sunday. You shouldn’t have any problem finding one. I hear you on the buying everything you see…
Hello, Michele! A know some farmers who are up at 3 a.m., but not at the market.
Janeen: We’ll be there soon!
Joanna: Aren’t they gorgeous? I love the mix of lavender and white.
‘mouse: Beautiful, aren’t they? Sadly, their flavor doesn’t match their color; they’re fairly bland, and have lots of tiny seeds.
Jaspenelle: All my produce pics are from our local markets – most from Ballard, and the past couple of weeks from our new neighborhood market. I would love to plant some berry bushes in our yard… maybe this fall.
As if you cat pictures were not beautiful enough, now you go and post pictures of black raspberries.
There oughta be a law…
..er, “your.”