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Another BEAUTIFUL morning at the Farmer’s Market in downtown Phoenix. The best place to find organic, locally grown fruits, vegetables, fresh baked artisan breads, organic fresh eggs, and everything that you could possibly need for your body and soul are all available at the Saturday Farmer’s Market. It is also a great gathering place for like minded people, as well as the best place to gather information on a wide range of topics. I love supporting local farmers and artisans. It is the healthiest choice all the way around. So much better than patronizing the big supermarkets and throwing money at mass produced items that have little nutritional value and waste resources through production and shipping. Meeting the people who grow your food and make the products that you put on your body and in your home is a much more delightful experience.

Fresh eggs are sold so quickly that you must get there as soon as it opens and in most cases you must put your name on a list for your eggs that you can pick up the following market day (Saturday). Today we were lucky to find one organic farmer who had a few eggs left. They sell for $5 a dozen and are well worth it.

Following the market, I usually visit my sister who has a small urban farm, complete with hens who recently began to lay eggs. She has been getting only one a day but soon there will be enough hens laying that I can get eggs from her. She has 10 chickens in all and is going to add to her brood very soon. That should provide us all with plenty of eggs before too long. I am in love with her rooster who we call “little Jerry”, he comes up to me whenever I visit, so I just have to pick him up and get my rooster love!

My favorite soap ever is Blackstrap Patchouli Handmade Cold Press Soap made by Emelmahae Soap Company, owned by a very lovely woman whose name is Kari Bower. Instead of a having a dope dealer I call her my “soap dealer” because I am so addicted to her soap. Patchouli is my drug of choice. Her products are organic and everything smells wonderful and is good for you.

Today is the spring equinox and on the way out of the door this morning I found a partial eggshell on my patio that apparently blew out of one of the many nests in the trees around my house, landing on my patio as a sign of the first day of spring. The air is filled with bird songs today. It is heavenly.

Life literally gave us lemons, a huge bowl full actually, and this afternoon will be spent making hand squeezed, homemade lemonade. What a perfect beginning to the new season and a great way to celebrate everything new. The flowers and trees are in full bloom, the birds are alive and well and it is time for renewal.

What a day for a daydream!