Friday is Green Dragon Day

Friday is a great day to bike to work.  At 6:00am the Green Dragon (a massive Farmer's Market) is starting to come to life.  It's rather awesome to bike past it and witness the erection of stands and the laying out of produce and baked goods before the sun even rises.  I've decided that since I will be biking to work every day, I will wake up 10 minutes earlier on Fridays and stop for a breakfast of some sort, be it an apple, a sticky bun, or some quinoa salad. 

My wife and I made our way to the Green Dragon once we got home from work.  We ate some delicious food and I got my picture of the day. 

Friday at the Dragon

An old woman barters over some fresh produce at the Green Dragon, located in Ephrata, PA.

Local Produce All The Way

I got my car inspected today.  While paying, I added a bunch of home grown asparagus to my bill.  Thus is the awesome nature of the area I live in...Lancaster County.  They had asparagus on the counter, in a bucket, for 1.50...how could I refuse?  I couldn't.
The fact that a car shop had some of their own vegetables for sale with their vehicle services made me think that my favorite farm stand might be open.  It was.  I picked up some cabbage and strawberry rhubarb jam and my wife got an apple.  It is a wonderful little stand and I rejoice in the fact that it is open.  I will be giving them more business than I give anyone else for the next five months.

Wanted: Newspapers

This picture is more of a documentary shot.  It isn't supposed to be anything special,  just an image that marks the first day that I got to go to my favorite produce stand in 2011.

Skids and Spokes

I have a hard time not photographing bikes, regardless of their location.  But a bike surrounded by skids of produce, now that is pretty awesome.  Id like to imagine there is a forklift attachment for a bicycle and that is the method that is used to move produce around the stand.