Of all the Most Beautiful Living Things...

This morning I got up at 6:00 Am and drove the 60-some-odd miles to Downtown San Francisco to do one thing:

spend the morning with my girlfriend Natalie at the Ferry Building Farmer's Market.

I took home (organic, the whole lot!):

Rainbow beets

Sugar Snap Peas

tri-colored carrots

Poppy pods

Five varieties of Heirloom Tomatoes

Lavender Salt

Macaroons, French Style, from Miette

Ethically raised, free-range organic beef steaks (and I think I may work with the farm to get a hide and have it processed here in the Bay Area!!)

Seedless Flame Grapes

But really really I think the most beautiful living thing at the whole shebang was this woman:

She was standing waiting for someone, looking off into the distance with such grace and poise and I went over to her so nervously and told her she was so beautiful that I would love to take her picture.

Her 'yes' was a spring breeze, melodic and Chopin-lovely.

I will never, ever forget her

and for the life of me I will never be able to explain why.

She embodied something words fail to capture

so I will not try...

I will let her picture whisper those thousand words to you in 3/4 time.

Love,

Allison