summerlist: weekend summer-finding
Jul 30, 2010 
How good is the farmer’s market and garden these days? I am literally eating summer at every meal, despite this stubborn and gloomy fog that has settled over the city. Not pictured here are the beans and peas and potatoes that are bursting forth from my wee little garden right now. Lately, the glum San Francisco weather has meant taking to the road to find summer.
By now, we’ve got a pretty good drill: escape out of the city and hit winding country roads, stopping to pick up cherries along the way. We now affectionately call them road cherries. Why did it take me this long to realize that cherries are the best roap trip food? Windows down, spitting pits out the window, I can almost hear my grandfather Papa D's 8-track playing Kenny Rodgers.
Right about when we polish off the bag of cherries, we arrive at a nearby beach, haul out a blanket, reading material and a thermos of margaritas.
Summer found.
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Reader Comments (3)
Mmmmm - cherries. I've been buying bags of them but they rarely last more than the first half hour after we get home. If either of my guys finds them - that's it. No more for me! After seemingly months of rain - summer arrived here in early July and we've had days and days of summer. Today it is overcast and coolish so we can recover a bit from several beach sun days - off to the market for zukes, corn, tomatoes and hopefully more cherries! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!
This totally reminded me of summers as a kid! My dad would drive us up to his sister's little farm in Central CA. We'd cruise in our van with the funny windows popped open, just enough to catch the warm breeze and pitch the pits. Many fruit remains and nut shells made it to the dirt banks of 99. I used to wonder if we would see fruit trees growing the next year by the side of the road. Ahhh, summer!
Oh, this is really not fair. I'm sitting here freezing and you keep talking about summer! : )