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i think my favorite place this year may just be the santa rosa farmer's market. it has been fantastic to pick up the freshest produce week after week*. not only does everything taste great, the colors are fantastic. i just love heirloom tomatoes there are every shape, color, and size imaginable available the best part today was the tomato tasting...i think i ate 2 or 3 whole tomatoes worth. well if you were to glue the hodgepodge of types they had into one fantastic fruit! there are also all kinds of squash beets and radishes, carrots and more and the peppers! purple green red yellow orange sweet hot and everything between and the best part well best after tasting everything (i love samples) is bringing home your favorites 2 kinds of pears, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, black mission figs, apples, nectarines, plums, basil i see fruit salad and pizza in our future! *oh, and its not just the best place for produce, there are also: preserves, honey, bread, pies, olive oil, vinegar, che

it's official; fall is here

i know it has been a little quiet around here. but i was trying not to spill the beans. i've been teetering on the edge of my coffee house seat here for a while but it is now official. i've made assistant store manager! it's really exciting and a little bit scary. i'm moving stores again which is sad. but it is a move in the right direction. yippee!

a couple of weekends ago we headed out to point reyes national seashore and caught sight of some tule elk. i'd never seen this kind of elk before, there are some ladies off in the distance if you squint you can almost see them lying down... but this guy is on the wrong side of the 8 foot livestock fence and the other side of a cattle guard from the girls hanging out with a bunch of cows... silly guy

if only i could stop reading for 5 minutes i would have time to knit. that is if i could stop stitching for 5 minutes too :)

harvest moon. mike over at friday foto proposed a labor day theme this week and this is what i saw tonight. moonrise over sonoma mountain. school is in full swing. and its getting crisp at night. i don't see labor day as the end of summer but more the unofficial start of fall.