Posts Tagged ‘roadside stand’
taking the goodness into winter
I love carrots. Give me a bunch of local carrots and a bag of onions and there is always something for supper.
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Keeping the goodness of our local produce into the winter months is a challenge. But this past weekend, I found dilled carrots still for sale at Cameron’s roadside stand just outside of Gagetown, New Brunswick. We also bought apples and a frozen apple pie.
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Mom used to make these and they make a crunchy addition to a meal. Just carrots, vinegar, dill seed, garlic and salt.
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Copyright 2015 Jane Tims
small-scale economies 7-29
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Did you ever sell vegetables by the road or help your kids run a lemonade stand? On Day 29 of my virtual bike trip, I saw two examples of this kind of small-scale economy. Selling roses and pots of plants provides some extra money for the vendor and something pretty or useful to buy along the road …
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map showing distance travelled (map from Google Earth)
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Setting up a roadside stand means finding a way to display the merchandise (a small bench will do), making a sign on a piece of paper or cardboard, and being ready to run out when you hear a car stop in the yard …
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selling roses along the road (image from Street View)
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selling plants along the road (image from Street View)
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Best View: for some reason cars caught my eye on this virtual bike trip … a green car travelling on a highway near Treworlas and cars with their headlights on as they drove through a dark tunnel of trees near Veryan … I used ‘resist’ to keep the green car white until the last and learned the hard way that too much ‘resist’ will lift the fibres from the paper ! … won’t do that again!!! …
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September 7, 2013 ‘green car’ Jane Tims
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September 7, 2013 ‘headlights in dark woods’ Jane Tims
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Copyright 2013 Jane Tims
windy October drive
On Monday, I went on a drive to Cambridge Narrows, to visit an antique store and a roadside market. My goal: to buy some Nancy Drew mystery books for my collection and some pumpkins for Halloween.
It was a blustery day, windy enough to put some whitecaps on the St. John River…
The wind was especially evident along the former Trans-Canada Highway, where dry leaves have gathered in all the ditches. Since only a few vehicles use this older highway, the leaves blow into the roadway…
The day had a luminous quality, in spite of the wind. Most of the reds are gone from the trees, leaving the yellows of the poplars, the rusty-orange of the oaks and the gold of the tamaracks…
I had a successful day. I bought some small pumpkins at a roadside stand…
three little pumpkins from the roadside vegetable stand (the faint eyes in the background are the amber eyes of our owl-andirons)
I also added five books to my collection of Nancy Drew mysteries…
five new mysteries for my collection… enough ghosts and glowing eyes for a spooky Halloween
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andiron
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wrought owl with amber eyes
perches on the hearth
hears a call in the forest
six syllables and silence
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Great-horned Owl, light gathered
at the back of his eyes,
and the oscillating branch
after wings expand and beat
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iron owl longs for a glimpse
of the sickle moon
the shadow of a mouse
sorting through dry leaves
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in this cramped space
night woods are brought to their essence
fibre and bark, sparks and fire
luminous eyes
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Copyright Jane Tims 2012
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