Fun at a roadside stand
By: Liz
tags: community, corn, family, farmer, field, flowers, fresh, fruits, Grace, green, grocery store, husks, life, local, nature, Oreo, organic, outside, peach, peaches, pepper jelly, photo, photograph, photography, print, random, roadside stand, shopping, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, tomatoes, veggies, weekend, zucchini
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I love the charm of a roadside fruit and veggie stand. There is something so comfy about it, stacks of fresh corn, tomatoes practically tumbling off tables. Everything is fresher, greener, more plump and lovely than what you can get in a grocery store. Plus of course the added benefit of supporting the local community!
On our road adventure this last weekend, we saw a roadside stand and made it our last destination of the day. It was worth the time to stop there. We loaded up on giant zucchini, sweet fresh corn (which allowed my daughter to use her new favorite word “husks”) and some pepper jelly. If you’ve never tried pepper jelly, you are missing out! We were about to leave when Grace spied a bucket full of lovely sunflowers. She just had to have one of course, and as we were picking the perfect one, the woman who was running the stand told us that there was an entire field of sunflowers just down the road. You know I just had to go and take pictures! The problem was convincing my husband of how important it was. It was the end of a hot and humid day, the kids were cranky, their faces smeared with Oreo… I saw defeat on the horizon, but I pressed on, pulling out the puppy dog face. Now, I have to say here- I NEVER use the puppy dog face (mostly because hubby uses it enough for us both!) but I just HAD to take pictures in the sunflower field… and of course I won! VICTORY!
Now, after that whole long story about sunflowers and sunflower fields, I bet you’re wondering why today’s photo is of peach baskets… Mostly it’s because when I started this post I wanted it to be today’s photo, but I went off on a tangent. So I guess you will have to wait till next time to see some sunflowers. Unless you’re impatient – in which case just click here and you will be whisked away to my sunflower print at Exquisite Image. There are also a few more pictures on my Flickr page.
So next time I promise to stay a little more on task, but in the meantime take a little time and surf the web for some local farmer’s markets (and don’t forget to bring your camera!!)
