Sunday Stills Challenge – Summertime

Sara wants us to express what summertime means to us……”What says summer to you?  Sweet corn, tomatoes and watermelon?  Lazy days at the pool?  Camping at the lake?  Let’s take some summertime pictures so we’ll have something to look back at when you are complaining about the cold.”

Since I had vein treatment done on my leg this past week I didn’t spend any time out looking for pictures to take.   We do a farmer’s market every Saturday, which has been a regular “summertime” project for us now for five years.  This is one of the outlets that Chuck uses to sell his wood turnings.    We do two different markts on alternating weekends.  This market is the smaller one that we do, and I believe the most profitable for us.  The other market is downtown Knoxville at Market Square.  This market is huge….over 100 vendors!  Yesterdays market was only about 25 vendors.  So for this challenge I bring you pictures from this Saturday’s Dixie Lee farmer’s market.

This is only one row of the market.  It’s about 50-50 produce and crafts.

Folks were lining up for this fella’s fresh corn.  He sold out before the end of the market.

Check out the watermelon in the back.  This table is 30″ wide and it goes from front to back.  Weight….86 lbs.!!!  This one would feed the whole family reunion.

And, this is Chuck’s booth.  Yesterday was starting to be a really slow day until a lady who had purchased a peppermill from his last year dropped by to do some Christmas shopping.  She bought four peppermills!!  And said she would be back for more.  She wants Chuck to make some shorter mills to go with some large ones to make salt mills.    So we had a profitable 3hrs yesterday at the Market.  Our favorite summertime activity. 🙂