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It's a foggy day for Manhattan Beach's Memorial Day Farmer's Market! (Original Post) CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 OP
The pastries look scrumptious and the flowers are beautiful. I was stumped by photograph #8. LoisB Nov 11 #1
Thank you so much, my dear LoisB! That's really lovely of you. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #7
Nice photos. What is the yellow, many-fingered thing? A flower or a vegetable? sinkingfeeling Nov 11 #2
Thanks very much, my dear sinkingfeeling! Glad you enjoyed. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #8
The "Sideshow Bob" of fruits ! nt eppur_se_muova Nov 11 #19
Ain't that the truth! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #20
Great photos! anciano Nov 11 #3
Thanks so much, my dear anciano! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #9
Excellent collection. Walleye Nov 11 #4
Thanks so much, my dear Walleye! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #10
Good day fpr pictures! 2naSalit Nov 11 #5
Omigod, my dear 2naSalit! What an awful place for you right now. Wish I could help you. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #11
Weighing my options... 2naSalit Nov 11 #13
Considering your options is always a good choice. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #14
Thank you! 2naSalit Nov 11 #15
It really does need a huge overhaul. This is just wrong. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #16
Looks like you found some some nice, bright splashes of color to brighten up the foggy day! ShazzieB Nov 11 #6
Thanks so much, my dear ShazzieB! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #12
I'll take one of each of the pastries please. applegrove Nov 11 #17
Please be my guest, and thanks for your yummy remark, my dear applegrove! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #21
Delicious as always! HAB911 Nov 11 #18
Thanks so much, my dear HAB911! I appreciate you as always! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #22
Such beautiful photos, CaliforniaPeggy! MIButterfly Nov 11 #23
Thanks so much, my dear MIButterfly! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 11 #24
Berry beautiful! Easterncedar Nov 12 #25
Aw, thank you so much, my dear Easterncedar! Your support means so much. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 12 #27
Beautiful, Peggy! SheltieLover Nov 12 #26
Thanks so much, my dear SheltieLover! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 12 #28
Exquisite CaliforniaPeggy. Especially special your intro photo -- pity no dogs allowed. George McGovern Nov 12 #29
Thanks so much, dear George! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 12 #30

LoisB

(12,050 posts)
1. The pastries look scrumptious and the flowers are beautiful. I was stumped by photograph #8.
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 04:04 PM
Nov 11

A Buddha citron. Absolutely new to me.
Your photographs belong in Food Magazine or Home and Garden.
Thank you.

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,767 posts)
7. Thank you so much, my dear LoisB! That's really lovely of you.
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 06:13 PM
Nov 11

Thank you for finding out just what that is! The sign was facing the other way and I didn't feel like walking around it!

Never saw one of those before either.

I'm so grateful that you enjoy my work this much!

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,767 posts)
8. Thanks very much, my dear sinkingfeeling! Glad you enjoyed.
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 06:16 PM
Nov 11

LoisB figured out what it is: a Buddha citron. I'd never seen one or heard of it either!

anciano

(2,039 posts)
3. Great photos!
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 04:38 PM
Nov 11

Those pastries and berries look delicious!
I always look forward to your market pics.


CaliforniaPeggy

(155,767 posts)
9. Thanks so much, my dear anciano!
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 06:17 PM
Nov 11

They really do look wonderful. I should buy one just to see how they taste!

I'm so glad you enjoy my work. I have fun doing it.

2naSalit

(99,006 posts)
5. Good day fpr pictures!
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 04:48 PM
Nov 11

I love the food!*

And the flowers are beautiful, as usual. I do like the effect in the first eucalyptus picture.



*Right now I am starving, haven't been able to keep anything down since late Sunday, I have tendinitis in all the tendons associated with my glutes which interrupts my digestion. I need PT last month, now in a critical state, I went to a walk-in place and was told, after 90 minutes of waiting, that I will be seen when someone can schedule it. Well great, I can't eat until the PT happens so I guess I'm going to lose a bunch of weight. I still have to move AGAIN in a few weeks,hiring help for that one. But I can't eat! Not sure how long before I get help but I'm pretty damn exhausted and hungry and all I can keep down is water right now, eating anything solid becomes a disaster an hour later. No amount of anti-emetics help because it's not my stomach, those just make things worse if you don't need them. Ugh. It's also very uncomfortable to sit or stand and the pain is strong.

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,767 posts)
11. Omigod, my dear 2naSalit! What an awful place for you right now. Wish I could help you.
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 06:22 PM
Nov 11

I'm really glad you enjoyed my photos, but my god, not being able to eat??? Yikes.

How about hitting an urgent care or maybe an emergency room? This sounds dangerous. Please take care of you!

2naSalit

(99,006 posts)
13. Weighing my options...
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 06:31 PM
Nov 11

Not sure anyone in an ER can do what I need, pressure point therapy. The place I went to, supposedly soon to be my provider, has chiropractors and claim that they can provide the same treatment. Maybe she shouldn't have told me they're chiropractors, I was told to avoid them.

Either way, I have to wait. I found my box of teas so I am going to sip on those for tonight. I'm starting with cbd hemp tea and see what I feel like after that. I don't have stuff to make smoothies in the house right now. Maybe a trip to the store tomorrow, I did find my smoothie maker a little while ago, though.

It's just miserable but I know I will survive for another painful day tomorrow. Maybe I'll hear from the provider by tomorrow, if not, I'll be looking for an urgent care but I think they are it in my area.

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,767 posts)
14. Considering your options is always a good choice.
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 06:37 PM
Nov 11

CBD sounds promising. Maybe it might help reduce your pain.

The ER could at least refer you to someone expert in what you need.

You're in my thoughts.

2naSalit

(99,006 posts)
15. Thank you!
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 07:05 PM
Nov 11

PT is always a waiting game, I have always had to wait days if not weeks to see someone but if I don't wait until I'm in trouble, they won't refer me. Our medical system needs an overhaul.

ShazzieB

(21,976 posts)
6. Looks like you found some some nice, bright splashes of color to brighten up the foggy day!
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 05:44 PM
Nov 11

It's gray and overcast here today, so these colorful images are just what I need right now. Nice work!

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,767 posts)
12. Thanks so much, my dear ShazzieB!
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 06:24 PM
Nov 11

The bright colors always draw me in. Can't resist them!

It's overcast here today too, and I really prefer bright sunlight over nearly anything else!

MIButterfly

(1,692 posts)
23. Such beautiful photos, CaliforniaPeggy!
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 09:40 PM
Nov 11

Thank you, once again, for sharing them with us! I really enjoy them.

Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the purple things? They look like green beans but green beans are not purple.

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,767 posts)
24. Thanks so much, my dear MIButterfly!
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 09:49 PM
Nov 11

I'm so glad you enjoy them. I enjoy taking them, and fixing them up and then posting them. It's a creative action and I am nourished whenever I do it.

The purple things are indeed part of the bean family! I didn't ask the vendor but they must be related to green beans! As soon as I saw them, I had to catch them. Such an amazing color!

Easterncedar

(5,282 posts)
25. Berry beautiful!
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:45 AM
Nov 12

Every one of those is spectacular, Peggy. I can feel the textures of the pastries in my mouth, berries and cream and crust and crumb.

Somehow you have caught how muted sunlight enriches color. The last red plume is wonderful in detail.

Thanks, Peggy. I am glad I saved your pictures for this morning.

We have a couple of inches of snow on the ground. No colorful flowers here for a while.

Good luck today.

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,767 posts)
27. Aw, thank you so much, my dear Easterncedar! Your support means so much.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:56 AM
Nov 12

I'm so glad you're enjoying my photos. I really had a great time yesterday getting these. I'd gotten the perfect parking spot and so I didn't have to walk very to get to my car. I had a lot more energy as a result.

The overcast sky is good for enriching the color and I took full advantage of that! My camera has an exposure compensation ring and I use it liberally to make changes right before I take the photo. It really works!

Thank you for noticing!

Wow, snow on the ground? Yikes. But it has its own beauty.

And thank you for the good wishes for today. I too hope it will go well.

George McGovern

(10,156 posts)
29. Exquisite CaliforniaPeggy. Especially special your intro photo -- pity no dogs allowed.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:38 AM
Nov 12

Again you and Olympus shine! Thank You!!

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