Oh, I love me some farmers markets. I love the festival feeling. I love the little individual stalls. I love the flowers. I love the fruits and vegetables. I love the hand made goods.
As it turns out, this week has been designated Farmers Market Week here in the State of Washington. Farms and fresh food are definitely something worth celebrating, if you ask me.
Gem loves the markets as well. She loves the flowers, especially, and all the colors, the crowds, the blueberries, and all the energy.
Today, we went to the farmers market in Renton. This one had a bonus of a kids area, staffed with volunteers, with homemade play-dough and cookie cutters to make ornaments.
Gem was so taken with the dahlias that an elderly woman working in one of the stalls gave her one. Gem was beside herself.
Then she spent the rest of our time at the market looking for the white water-filled buckets that were used the anchor the tents.
Why?
Her flower needed water. So she she made a job for herself of finding all those water buckets, and dipped her flower’s stem in the water of every single one of those buckets at the market.
There are more farmers markets in the state than I imagined. I hadn’t even heard of the Renton market till we visited it today. Here’s a listing of more farmers markets in Washington State. Go check them out.
WW Linkup
Every week I host a photo linkup where we share posts featuring a photo. It started out being called Wordless Wednesday, but… Bloggers? Wordless? I’ve got too much to say. Then we started calling it Wordy Wednesday. Now we just abreviate to WW, and you pick for yourself whether or not to get wordy.
I love how colorful your market is. Ours has plenty of fresh fruits but they don’t go to all the other stuff like the homemade goods and pastas like yours. Your pictures are gorgeous.
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That is so cute about dipping the flower in the buckets for water!
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This is lovely! I wish we had more of these in my country, Romania..
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Farmers market are wonderful – a great highlight on a Saturday or Sunday morning. My particular favorite are all the small start-up vendors, getting a feel for their audience and offering some very tasty goodies.
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Awesome photos, especially the portraits!
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Oh I just love farmers’ markets and yours looks like it was/is spectacular. Looks like the weather held out too!!! Thanks for hosting and have a great week.
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