One of the rare red leaves, near where I live
My local Farmer’s Market
Grapes!
The different ways of apples
One of the sweetest farmers. I chanced upon his stall recently.
A new Italian Ice and gelato stall. And Pink!
What should we get?
We got a Lemon Ice , an Autumn Vanilla gelato and loads of travel tips to Italy
Some of my loot: lemon basil, squash blossoms, spring onions,acorn squash, Mejdool dates, kale, some baby patty pan squash
Can you smell the lemon basil?
Nothing says autumn quite like orange colored squash
Purple paper planes 
What a great trip to the farmer’s market! Too bad that Chocolate Hazelnut Gelato was sold out–sounds heavenly!
Thanks Karley! Yes, I wanted to try the chocolate hazelnut – but they were out of the Italian Ice and were selling the gelato only by the pint. But the Lemon Ice was deelicious!!
I used to be told lots of stories of the farmer’s market in California, and not having seen one myself imagined a souped up version of the local sabzi mandi you get in these parts. When i looked at the photographs here the first thing that noticed was how posh everything looked (and squeaky clean!)
Am going to wait to salivate over your recipe’s now. You wouldn’t happen to have a smart, quick way to cook Persimmons would you?
I’ve never cooked Persimmons- though this weekend they seemed to be all over the place at my Farmer’s Market.
Found this recipe (if you like sweet bread): http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2005/11/persimmon_bread.html
Also this persimmon chutney sounds yum- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20031203/ai_n14564362/