3.2 Animals - Catfish Alley

Bestest Friend and I are in the middle of a blog project. Each day of the month we will post a picture on a pre-determined theme and write a little something about it. The theme for the second day of each month is "Animals."
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Since this is the first time I’ve been home on a Saturday morning in over a month, we made a special trip to the Farmers’ Market to buy tomatoes for snacking, lettuce for BB’s sandwiches at lunch, and papalo for iced tea.  We go to the Market at a nearby town and I am constantly amazed at the turnover of the businesses in their downtown area.  There are two businesses on either side of “Catfish Alley,” a courtyard between two buildings which has its main characteristic of a huge metal sculpture of a fish overhead, that constantly change owners and focus.  The most recent businesses appear to be this Soulful Frog place and a cheesecake bakery.

Regardless of what’s happening in the storefronts themselves, the Farmers’ Market is always bustling. There are vendors selling vegetables, organic beef and lamb, free range chickens and chicken eggs, local dairy, including butter and cheese, soaps, hand-made yarns and wools, honey, marshmallows (the salted caramel marshmallow on a s’more will make you groan in delight), and a variety of decorations for your garden and lawn.  Sometimes I forget how wonderful it is to live in a place where we can buy almost all of our food needs from local sources (fine, there’s no getting around the fact that the olive oil will be imported) and that we can look the farmers in the eye and know how hard they worked for the food we’re eating.

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To see what Bestest Friend wrote about the theme of the day, check out her blog, Too Legit to Quit.