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due to technical difficulties (also known as the film lady scanned my negatives backward so i need to edit all of them), the farmers’ market photos will simply have to wait. although i am without pretty vegetable photos for today, i am so excited to express my love for the alberta neighborhood in portland. its an absolute gem! so funky & bursting with flavor.

i took this photo for luke, knowing he would get a kick out of seeing a greenhouse in a front yard. he loved it & wished we could do the same. amazing, right?

between the alberta co-op grocery, sweet little store fronts & the many urban gardens- i could see luke & i calling this wonderful neighborhood home. perhaps someday. for now, trips out west will do just fine.

last month i made a trip to portland & along the oregon coast with my mom & brother. perfect timing after all the stress of moving & transitioning to a new place. i absolutely love oregon… the trees, the people, the food, the places. of course, a trip to portland is not complete without a visit to the ace hotel.

afterward we headed to clyde common for happy hour & lunch.

i will be back with more from the saturday farmers’ market in portland tomorrow!

let me just say, i am pretty sure you are getting tired of my many gardening entries. i am totally aware, but lets just be honest- i love getting deep down into the lush green of the leaves & photographing the progress of it all.

i mean really, we are growing food, people! it is so beautiful & incredibly exciting to watch as food grows right in front of us.

our cantaloupe grows inches by the day.

& we have the cutest miniature butternut squash growing up our handmade trellis.

on sunday night, i watched as the bees buzzed in & out of each blossom near our cucumbers & close to our bush beans.

we even have a small watermelon that will soon be tied to the trellis as it grows larger by the day.

this weekend we harvested three cucumbers! crunchy & sweet, we love this heat-tolerant variety from johnny’s seeds.

of course, there are multiple purposes for freshly harvested food from the garden… a fake mustache is one of many.

happy tuesday to you, friends! i will be over at tend a little later on today!