great day in the morning

We just got back a little bit ago from our first trip to the downtown farmers market they hold here every Saturday morning. All I can say is, what fun! It’s an absolutely gorgeous day, and it was nice to be up early on a Saturday for once (and to have the day off at that!). There was so much to touch and taste and look at, but we stuck with just getting some breakfast. Well, I say breakfast- I had pancakes, but Jamie opted for a Sudanese dish followed by banana rum gelato. At 10:00 am. But he thought it was pretty much the best thing he had ever put in his mouth, so whatever. I took my camera along, but I ended up shooting from the hip most of the time, because you find out pretty quickly that people get really suspicious of strangers taking pictures of them with really large cameras. Go figure. It’s really a hit-or-miss technique, and I definitely missed a LOT on exposure and focus, but there were a few gems scattered in there. At one point when we were sitting on the grass eating, I spotted this man pulling his two kids in a little red wagon, and it was the cutest thing, so I pulled out my camera to capture it, and I had hardly gotten it to my face when he saw me and said, “No! No! NO! Don’t do that!” And I just kind of put the camera down, startled, and he was like, “Well, I mean I’m sure you’re innocent and all, but we’ve had some issues with this.” Excuse me? I mean, I guess I can understand wanting to protect your kids, but do I LOOK like a dirty child molester or something? Really? So yeah, from that point on, I kept the camera low and away from my face so as not to draw attention to myself and cause someone to alert security.

Love that banjo music!

Pretty AND yummy.

Human statue. This guy was AWESOME.

LOTS of music going on…. great atmosphere.

My breakfast! Buckwheat pancake with bananas, peanut butter, dried fruit, granola, and apple cider syrup. Yessir.

This is by far my favorite image of the bunch (shot from the hip! woot woot!). I love the movement, the slight angle, the contrast… and the doggie OF COURSE.

Check out that baby’s mohawk!

IN LOVE with these journals handmade with old book covers. If I didn’t already have so many cute journals that I bought because I thought their cuteness alone would inspire me to actually start keeping a journal but never really did, I would have bought one.

Yep. You read that right. Bike valet. Sweet.

So yeah, aside from Paranoid Parent, it was a fun morning, and the rest of the day should be pretty fun too. I want to finish my bike (hopefully I’ll have pictures to post soon!), check out the Utah Arts Festival that’s going on this weekend, maybe nap a little, and then go see “Away We Go” tonight when Jamie gets off work. (The first review I read had turned me off, because I thought it’d be a little too-cool-for-school and that it would annoy me, but I read some more reviews yesterday that said Jon Krasinski and Maya Rudolph’s performances were so genuine that they overcame any of the pretentiousness of the rest of the movie. So now I want to see it… and see for myself!)