Bloomington Farmers Market

Our family anticipates summer Saturdays. We head early for the market...people coming and going smile and hold open the doors to the Civic Center, the entrance to the market plaza. We stop for a couple of minutes to see what's on display in the gallery. Lst Saturday it was woodcuts. On a lucky day, the gift shop featuring the art and objects of Bloomington and MN artists is open. We move into the open air and see the market spread out at the bottom of the stairs. Hmong vegetable vendors' produce as artistically displayed as the pictures in the gallery; the Sisters Sludge cofffee purvors where anyone of three identical triplet sisters serve, along with multi-generations of their family who greet old friends and talk of children and politics; the berry guy and the organic egg guy with his young son; and more...music and mingling enhanced by brillant bursts of the Hmong grown and artistically put together bouquests for only $5.00...who can resist! We've lived in Bloomington for 37 years and this is the closest to a sense of small town America that we've found.