Somewhere Different Now

First a happy thing and then a rant.  Summer's arrival has made the local farmers' markets really, really exciting.  Today I bought blackberries (1/3 eaten by the end of my walk home, staining my fingers purple), cherries, peaches, and tomatoes, and I still have salad greens, snap peas, pattypan squash, cucumber, and green beans left over from last week.  I've just finished off a couple of cherimoyas, this tropical fruit (locally grown because I live in California, bitches) that looks like a green armadillo and tastes like heaven. Before I started regularly patronizing farmers' markets, I never really believed that there could be that big a difference in the tastes of tomatoes from a supermarket and tomatoes grown locally in small batches, but the ones I get from the farmers are so much more flavorful.  I love fresh produce, and I love California.

Now for a rant. 
Now, off to eat some of that lovely food.