Farmers Market

Every Friday there is a Farmers Market several miles down the road in a little town called Haucus.  It is too far to walk but a very short $1.00 per person taxi ride.  They have wonderful fruits and vegetables along the side of the road.  Last Friday we went with a new friend from the condo unit who has been coming here for years and really knows her way around.

The vegetables are fresh and wonderful.

Gail bought a bunch of bananas, two mangos, a beautiful bunch of green beans, a pineapple, two peaches, six wonderful tomatoes, one red pepper and one green pepper, the biggest head of lettuce I have ever seen, and big bag of potatoes, all for $16.

I know there is a golf course nearby Tamarindo because they advertised a charity tournament in the paper the other day.  I don’t know where the golf course is but on the way to the Farmer’s Market we passed a driving range.  It is a little crude but looks like it is probably effective.

It has not rained here for over two months and the Driving Range was the greenest thing we saw on our ride to and from Haucus.  The entire country side is very dry.

One of the major concerns this time of year is fires. You can see smoke most every day up in the mountains. These are wild fires that are left to burn because it is too hard to reach them and try to put them out.

Even though it is dry the flowers continue to bloom and the yards of many of the homes are full of color.

With so much color now, I wonder what it looks like in the rainy season.