Music and Cats

On a Sunday morning last summer, Paul drove us to the farmers’ market early, so that I could indulge my obsession with photographing produce before going to stand in line for a dozen of Skagit River Ranch’s magnificent eggs. As I wandered along the rows of stalls, camera affixed to my face, Paul scouted ahead. […]

When I first began trying to eat locally several years ago, one of the foods that I had trouble finding from local farmers was dried beans. As I’m an omnivore (complete with dilemma), I don’t rely on beans for protein, but I like beans. And I knew that farmers out in eastern Washington’s Palouse grow […]

One of my favorite summertime stops at Seattle’s U-District Farmers’ Market is the stacked boxes of seconds tomatoes along the west side of Billy’s Organics. Billy grows gorgeous tomatoes — heirloom, hybrid and cherry varieties — and I’m sometimes puzzled by the tomatoes that make it into the seconds boxes. Some are oddly shaped, or […]

Oh my, it’s hot here. Only a couple of degrees cooler than my hometown, Houston, but fortunately much less humid. Last week, Laura was skeptical about my suggestion that summer might have arrived in western Washington; this week, I think there’s no denying that summer is here. (I still expect it to be cool […]

This was the week when it felt like summer really might come to Seattle this year. Several days of sunshine, and temperatures close to normal, brought smiles to people’s faces — or perhaps the ripe, fragrant strawberries at the farmers’ markets were the cause of those grins. Goodbye, Juneuary! And welcome, Summer, with all of […]