1st Weekend: An early autumn windstorm downed the leaves on Ballard Avenue’s street trees, and pushed up drifts around the market tents. Bare trees presaged the cold and dark of winter; squashes and roots piled high promised months of warming soups and stews.
2nd Weekend: Lingering summery sweet peppers and tomatoes cozy up to sun-splashed squash. Does that mushroom look like a cauliflower, or more like a brain? (He said that was a small one!) Do your fingers itch to grab a grape from those glowing red and green bunches?
3rd Weekend: Fresh cranberries at the U-District Farmers Market! I’ve known that cranberries grow here; it was a delight to buy some from the family — mother and daughter — who grew them. I brought home more than we’ll need for Thanksgiving, and put a few pints in the freezer. Rainier Mountain Cranberries are from Eatonville, WA.
4th Weekend: Crisp and sunny and full of delights: tender white ginger, root and shoot intact; beautiful baskets of bread; fresh raw hazelnuts in their shells… and my favorite pumpkin of this October.
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Love the last pumpkin.
Gorgeous photographs.
Lovely photos! I’ve never seen fresh ginger at the farmers market before; we’ll have to look for that.
When we were trick-or-treating (so lucky it didn’t start rain until the next day), we saw a house with five small jack-o-lanterns spelling O B A M A.