Focus On The Farmers

It’s pouring in Columbus right now, and the weather forecast is for more of the same — all day, and for that matter all week.

As I sat on my back porch listening to the rain pound the roof this morning, the phrase that popped into my head was: “It’s good for the farmers.” When we were kids, that was Mom’s inevitable response to a rainy summer day. Forlorn kids would be staring out the window, saddened by the fact that a precious day of summer vacation would be lost to thunderstorms, but Mom would try to put a happy spin on the showers. She was a master of the power of positive thinking In the days before spin even had a name.

Here’s to you, Ohio farmers! Let’s hope the rains produce a bumper crop this year.

Farmers’ Fantasy

It’s high season for farmers’ markets in Ohio.  At the Vermilion market, a Mennonite family was offering loads of tomatoes, peaches, cucumbers, peppers, sweet corn, jelly, and just about anything else that comes out of the ground with a little hard work.

Oh, and a wheelbarrow full of watermelons and cantaloupes, too.

I don’t eat most of the offerings, but I like the colors and the smells.