Farmers Market (journal spread)
Farmers Market (journal spread), originally uploaded by graphicartepsi.
I'm developing a Saturday morning farmers market habit. These peppers remind me of how, when we lived on our little farm in the 70s, I'd often paint what I picked from the garden--either before or after canning! One of my clearest memories was shelling a great GOB of peas into an enamel colander--it was so gorgeous, with the pale green peas against that white and blue, that I had to paint them...and before I could finish one of my cats knocked the colander over into the grass! (Much cursing and picking peas from grass and grass from peas, you can be sure! Darn cats...)
Another favorite was of the rows of canned tomatoes on my old, ornate kitchen woodstove--I wish I had a photo of that one, somewhere...
I think that's one reason I love my journals so--they preserve these memories in a visual way, and I'm an extremely visual person...
The peppers were simply too gorgeous NOT to paint! (Now I need to eat them before they get all puckered like an old prune...)