Road Trip - Corvallis, Oregon

Earlier this summer Lexa and I talked about driving up to Corvallis some Saturday and checking out their Farmers' Market. When on Wednesday I received a postcard from Friendship Crossing stating their annual cross stitch sale would be Saturday the 11th, it seems that it the time had come to make the journey to the land of Beavers!

Lexa made the ultimate sisterly sacrifice, and agreed to get up by 7:00am on a Saturday so that we could begin our "Road Trip" to Corvallis by 8:00am and be in Corvallis by 9:00am. As you can see from the photo above, Friendship Crossing had a sidewalk sale too! Everything on the front table was either $1, or $2 or $3 - how could I resist? I ended up spending about 90 minutes filling my bag with charts and fabric - so much fun!

Lex was not bored out of her mind while I was floating (and buying) in cross stitch heaven. She met at friend for breakfast and a good visit at New Morning Bakery -just two doors down. After I was done shopping, I grabbed a chocolate croissant - it too was heaven on earth! A super-sized croissant with chocolate liberally drizzled on the top...and, if that were not enough, two layers of mini chocolate chips inside. Yumm!

Then it was on to the Corvallis Farmers' Market! We in Eugene are blessed with a very good Farmers' Market, and so now is Corvallis! They have created a fun, spacious market on a closed-to-traffic street next to the river. There were several booths with flowers, produce booths, booths selling organic meats, and a fisherman from Newport with fresh seafood. I bought halibut from the fisherman, spinach and onion sour dough bread from Alpine Sour Dough Bakery, and creamy Havarti cheese from the Willamette Cheese Company. So guess what we had for dinner tonight?

Tomatoes, lilies, and more lilies above - beets and radishes, basil and peppers below. Isn't summer beautiful?