Saturday the dog walk was on Clam Beach. Not as dramatic a vista as Moonstone, but still lovely and the dogs and humans seemed to enjoy it very much. Linda looked up and saw a bunch of runners - she said she could hear the music from Chariots of the Gods in her head.
She also captured some of the joyousness of the event:
Later we checked out the Arcata Farmer’s Market
There were lots of beautiful vegetables and I was especially excited to see that there were sugar snap peas. I wait eagerly for those in NYC and Long Island every year, but missed part of the brief season this summer so it was an unexpected treat to find California-sized ones in abundance here in Arcata. I was also taken with the fabulousness of the flowers at several booths.
There was a portable wood fired pizza oven making a Margarita pizza with just picked tomatoes and basil which was really special. At another booth they were dishing up Nicaraguan pupusas with curtido (a filled corn cake and savory cole slaw)
Some huge bubble blowing and hula hooping for the kids:
In the evening we had some very tasty Mexican food at El Chipotle (definitely NOT the chain restaurant) in Sunny Brae. Once fortified, we strolled the Eureka Arts Alive festival that happens every first Saturday of the month. It’s kind of a street fair/open gallery/small music venues and general happening sort of event. I confess I lost track of photography and Linda didn’t have her camera so there are no pics. My two favorite things were a very talented jazz ukelele player and a demonstration of a small hand-operated printing press where we got to make our own hand-printed cards.