{"id":447,"date":"2006-10-22T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T21:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2006-10-22T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T22:52:14","slug":"sunday-in-ballard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/sunday-in-ballard\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday in Ballard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70092316@N00\/276554388\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" title=\"Street Musician\" alt=\"Street Musician\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/122\/276554388_d390a334be_m.jpg\" \/><\/a>The city is dressed for show in gold and scarlet and plum. That is reason enough to head out on the tree lined avenues that cross the neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also market day in Ballard. Harvest goods are piled on on folding tables, friendly red-cheeked farmers and other folks who make yummy things &#8211; cheese, preserves, breads &#8211; are standing outside in the bright fall light handing out free samples and working the crowd. A musician sat on an upended crate playing a shiny steel guitar (oooh, I want a resonater uke!) and singing the blues, though there was little to be blue about. The market smells like flowers and fresh dirt and butter, of all things, because there&#8217;s a crepe stand where a skilled cook will produce a perfect paper thin pancake before your very eyes.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70092316@N00\/276554437\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Carrots\" alt=\"Carrots\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/108\/276554437_2dd0a51e61_m.jpg\" \/><\/a>We started with coffee and treats, then wandered the market. After that, we stopped in the music store, and then, went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/\">Archie McPhee&#8217;s<\/a>. Sometimes, you need a rubber duck. Right now.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a beautiful morning.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few Ballard photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70092316@N00\/tags\/ballard\/\">here<\/a>, including some from the summer solstice at Golden Gardens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nerd&#8217;s Eye View reminds you<\/strong>: Take your camera with you! I was so glad I&#8217;d brought mine.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Ballard, farmer&#8217;s market[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city is dressed for show in gold and scarlet and plum. That is reason enough to head out on the tree lined avenues that cross the neighborhoods. But it&#8217;s also market day in Ballard. Harvest goods are piled on on folding tables, friendly red-cheeked farmers and other folks who make yummy things &#8211; cheese, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Sunday in Ballard\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/sunday-in-ballard\/#more-447\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sunday in Ballard\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}