Saturday marketing in Glassland
September 6, 2008 by cynthia
Lovely, lovely morning that makes me even fonder of life in the slow lane.
I spent it with my friend Monica at the Portland Farmers Market just outside of PSU. When she heard I’d never been there she was shocked, and we made a date to meet there for coffee and people watching this morning.
Gorgeous produce, some really wonderful artisan cheese–I hope all the ones I bought home will freeze well or in the next two weeks I’ve gotta give the biggest cheese-tasting party you ever saw–and great music. The best part by far, though, was the people-watching.
I’ve always loved candid photography, but the sculpture thing has made me even more conscious of faces, expressions, the way muscles move under skin, where necks hook up to ears, that sort of thing. This morning was an immersion in candid possibilities; tons of fascinating people, got lots of (I hope) great shots, and the number of need-to-be-sculpteds in my head has backed up to overflowing.
I snapshotted least eight good candidates for the Vignettes series this morning; I’ll let the images start the slow filtering process to see which one needs to be done first. Took the little camera because I didn’t know what I’d find, but I need to go back with the REAL camera and do some honest-to-goodness portraits.
So for now, I’ll let them percolate in my brain while I heat up the wax to get Trever ready to invest, and start modeling the Beslan woman.
And while the wax is melting, I’ll just break out some of this fresh ciabatta, scoop out that tangy herbed chevre, slice up an heirloom tomato and sprinkle it with my new artisan salt. Then maybe for dessert…one of those just-picked pears with a scent so rich I smelled them from three booths over…
Bon appetit!
P.S. Did you know that Irish oatmeal, properly prepared, is absolutely delicious with a little brown sugar, some mango chutney and plain non-fat yogurt? The ladies manning the booth looked a bit askance at the combination, but it worked.
beautiful
Yum, I love going to the farmers markets near here. A fav sat am thing to do.
You freeze Cheese?!!!
In my view cheese should be kept cool. Refrigerated if necessary, but to freeze it would (again in my view) change the flavours.
But, taste before freezing and again after & let me know.
Steve
My mom freezes hard, storebought cheddars and they’re fine. Never tried it myself. I only know that I wound up buying a bit of cheese from just about every cheesemaker at the fair yesterday and that’s a LOT of cheese.
I love markets for photography, especially produce groupings. I always have my small camera with me and find I take more candid shots as it becomes an extention of my arm. I am lazy and shoot almost everything on automatic. Someday I will need to relearn how to use it manually.
these photos are beautiful! thanks for hanging cynthia! i had a great time.
Great photos and characters Cynthia.I think I’ve a way of sorting people, that you may have too.I can look at some such faces for ages, imagining the story behind them. They may catch my eye with a smile, and I am happy to say, gidday, great day to be out, and have a conversation.Anything looking like stepped off a catalogue doesn’t do anything for me.
Peter.