Taking the Tour - A Farmers Market, a Bakery , a Gorge and a Glass Blower

Saturday morning at the Farmers Market.  It has been raining, and everything is kind of soaked, but people are out with their home grown and made items, ready to sell.  John sampled some sauerkraut flavored with horseradish and decided to pass, though. 

These hanging baskets were beautiful! 

Luscious lettuce! 

These onions were about two feet long, the longest I'd ever seen.

And these were just marked "mushrooms".  Anybody know what kind?

Per picked up some cheese, Helle got radishes, and John came up empty handed for a strawberry rhubarb pie.  He was too late.

And then we were off to King Arthurs Flour.  In business since 1790 this place has an amazing variety of different flours.  They also have a wonderful kitchen store, a cafe, and they have started cooking classes, for which there is a waiting list.

I don't think John and Per were talking flour, however; more like Ink!

This place is amazing.  Check out their website  at kingarthurflour.com

Per and Helle then took us on a little tour to see where they used to live and a piece of property they wanted to buy.  It was owned by Andrew Faust of Enron fame (he went to jail) and the property wasn't cleared for sale until after Per and Helle had found something else.  Nevertheless, we walked the property.

Then we were off to Quechee Gorge.  We are standing on a bridge overlooking the gorge.  Spectacular!

We had a little afternoon snack at the Trap Door Bakehouse and Cafe, near the Gorge.

Afterwards, we stopped  at the Simon Pearce glassworks.  Beautiful hand blown glass, which we watched them making.  This covered bridge is being rebuilt after Hurricane Irene.  There was a lot of controversy over whether they should replace the old wooden structure or just build a modern one.   A replica prevailed.

The river looks tranquil enough, but this area was completely flooded and filled with debris.

All the rain we have been having makes the river look pretty swollen.  This was taken from inside the glassworks, an area that was flooded out in Irene.

 This is what the bridge and river looked like the night of the Hurricane.

A lot of glassware was filled with mud and piled in a corner of the basement, but most of it was unbroken.

These are molds used for making the glassware, but which are now artwork!  You can also check out their website at Simonpearce.com.