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KewtieBird’s Photo Journey's avatar

Gorgeous shapes and vibrant colors at the market. Tantalizing!

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Paul Caloca's avatar

That’s my motivation for trying to capture the bounty of nature 😎

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Sheryl O'Connell's avatar

Beautiful photography!

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Thank you so much 🙏😌

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

I see lots of cherry pies in your future! Maybe some hot pepper jam instead of apricot? Beautiful photos have whetted my appetite

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Hot pepper jam is a new one to consider! Linda just bought 12 pounds of apricots at the Cedar Hills market for pantry jam. Natures bounty is a joy to photograph 🫶

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

What a beautiful way to live! Photographing your bountiful finds! If you live down here I will give you a tree fall of apricots and peaches. Lol!

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Homemade Peach ice cream!

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Apricots are divine!

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Donna Ebner's avatar

Hope you were able to find some decent apricots, anyway. I love the pic of the tomatoes, especially! Looking forward here to some decent peaches soon. What would you two make with peaches first? 😁🤔

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Linda Naylor's avatar

In a moment of near panic-buying yesterday, I realized I had dangerously miscalculated the apricot growing season. Our stalwart vendor sold the last they had a week earlier, and the season was only 3 weeks this year.

I jumped on the Web, quickly researching other farm options. A Cornelius farm said their yield was small, though they wouldn’t know what they had to sell until their team returned from market.

The Cedar Hills market. Ten minutes away. Closing in 30 minutes. Off I went. A lovely young lady gathered their last 12#, and I negotiated a flat price to my liking.

Oddly, our peach preferences are limited to: a. pie (because restaurants love it); b. galette (because we love it); and c. ice cream (because there’s nothing better in the universe during the summer).

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Donna Ebner's avatar

You must have apricot karma too. 😉

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Linda Naylor's avatar

It works for everything. Fascinating to think about applying it elsewhere…

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Rachel Jeffrey's avatar

Lovely photos! I also have a friend with parking karma. Every time we go somewhere, she gets a front row parking spot. It's a running joke among our friends.

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Parking Karma galore! 😎

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

Those cherries are my favorites and only come for a short time. Maybe that's one reason they're so precious.

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Paul Caloca's avatar

They are destined for pies, yum!

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Linda Naylor's avatar

Essential Cherry-Berry Pie. We also sell Essential Cherry-Chocolate Minis with 72% chocolate. We sell both to restaurants.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Beautiful photos...what an awesome place to go on a Saturday morning! ❤️

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Linda Naylor's avatar

It’s heaven on a Saturday morning. Love seeing our favorite vendors.

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Wonderful food, people, and weather make for a splendid start to the day. 😊

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Kathy Enriquez-Nguyen's avatar

These are lovely! I love how you captured all the colours

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Paul Caloca's avatar

All it takes it a light touch of photo post-processing to bring out what nature gave us. 😎 Many thanks!

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Kathy Enriquez-Nguyen's avatar

Ya did a wonderful job

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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K.L. Rockwell's avatar

My husband has a special technique to manifest parking spots at busy places…never fails! Great photos and the sunflower pic is amazing!

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Linda Naylor's avatar

K.L., I found long ago that if I simply reduce any anxiety associated with finding a spot, and if I expect the very best spot it always works.

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Paul Caloca's avatar

It’s uncanny how well it works!

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Yes! Parking Karma for enlightened drivers 😎. Thank you for your kind words 🙏

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Monica P.'s avatar

Great photographs. This is what a farmer’s market should look like. 👍

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Paul Caloca's avatar

Lovely food and welcoming people abound there. I’m grateful! 🙏

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