Farm Folk, City Folk...

The other day Jayna and I had some deliveries to make on Granville Island and BONUS it was Thursday the day The Truck Farmers Market sets up in the parking lot outside the main market. This is the real farmers market! We bought organic blueberries, blackberries, heirloom tomatoes and corn from up the Fraser Valley, new potatoes from Pemberton and a bucket of hydrangea for only $10! Oh, I love summertime when the eating is fresh! Darin and Rochelle gave us some single estate olive oil that they brought back from a recent trip to Spain and earlier that morning I purchased my favorite organic balsamic vinegar at Gourmet Warehouse. Tomatoes, basil (prolific now in my herb garden), olive oil and balsamic vinegar are a few of my favorite things.

Last summer I planted a White Garden in a corner of the cedar hedge. It’s not as elegant as Vita Sackville-West’s famous White Garden but it has been a joy to watch it through the seasons from spring blooming white heather, summer daisies, phlox and Echinacea ‘white swan’. White Gardens are very romantic in the moonlight. I must remember to put a bench nearby.

Many people ask if the home we just built is our dream home. What’s a dream home? Give me four walls and I’ll create the dream although this time I did make some suggestions…windows facing east where we could watch the sun rise from bed and windows in the west where we could watch the setting sun in the evening. Oh, and lots of hooks in the bedroom closet. So I guess the answer is yes, we do have a dream home. I was discussing dream homes with two visitors to the shop today and we all agreed it’s more about making the most of our given situation, learning to enjoy little things than about big and magnificent.