OCCIDENTAL FARMER’S MARKET

This town has great energy! There are a lot of farmers markets in the Bay Area but this one on Friday nights in Occidental is extra special.  I think you would like it dear readers in the Bay.  Take off work early on a Friday and hurtle on up here – it’s only about an hour and a half from Oakland.

Our friends, Gloria and Jack, were our hosts for the weekend.  This is a special place for them. They even got married here. (Way creative, way cool.) We tasted our way from booth to booth, meeting their friends and taking pictures with my new camera!  Check out this bouquet made special for Gloria - $7.00. 

We carried a bag full of jams, baked goods and honeys and I had a big plate of paella for dinner, sopped up with hunks of artisan bread, check it out …

I didn’t want to be anywhere else, sitting out there in the cool of the evening, eating paella and peach pie with Rob, Gloria and Jack, and all the Occidental hippie types with their kids and their guitars and their natural women and the overall relaxed vibe . . .

Later we watched the sun set over the surf from Coleman Valley Road and passed the church in Bodega where the movie, The Birds, was filmed.  I got a very cool shot of it with a luminous moon. 

I’m back on my game.

Thanks be to God!