Good Pizza!

We don't have any real news today, just some fun photos to share with you.

 We keep thinking this is the last week, the last day it will be cool enough to make dinner in the oven, but the cold weather drags on and on.  Today it actually felt good to stand next to a 500 degree oven.  We'd like to have some summer weather, but homemade pizza is a good consolation prize. 
 

 Roger, the art director, makes sure it looks just right.

 You can't just put the tomatoes on in any old way.  The pizza has to be visually pleasing.

Red, green and yellow tomatoes from the Farmer's Market.  Who could grow a tomato in this cool weather?  The tomato plants on our patio are only ten inches tall.  I suspect these came from a hothouse!

Where ever they came from, heirloom tomatoes, artfully arranged, make a fine pizza.

Summer Saturdays

 Roger and I are just beginning to get out into the world and this was a perfect day to venture forth.  We had breakfast at the Missoula Saturday Farmer's Market, conveniently located 4 blocks from our house.

Missoula has several farmer's markets dotted around town and people have their preferences. This one is"our" market. It's an easy walk, except when we buy  more than we can carry home.

Like Siberians, on the first truly warm day of the year we hardly know what to do with ourselves.  We started out in the early morning wearing coats, and then had to peel them off to reveal our pale, pasty skin.  It's been a long time since we've seen the sun!

  

It took 45 minutes to get a cup of coffee, but we don't go to the Market for speedy service.

We go for the kuchen.

A lot of towns have Farmer's Markets, but there probably aren't many that have an old locomotive right in the middle.

Missoula becomes a charming little village when the sun shines. You never know who you'll run into.  We frequently bump into neighbors and friends at the market who, like us, are splurging on pastries and buying more locally grown produce than they can comfortably carry home.