This post is for Diane, a sweet friend who works in the bank here in town. Whenever I go into the bank, Diane enthusiastically tells me “I read your blog!” and she says something complementary about the pictures I posted of our farm animals, or what I wrote about my trip to see my Mom, and Diane makes me feel famous, though for all I know Diane might be my only loyal reader.
I never check blog “hits,” because I don’t do these posts to sell anything, or get famous, so numbers don’t matter to me. If Diane (and, okay, maybe a few other people like her out there in the world) read my posts, that’s good enough for me.
Diane told me this morning that she’s moving to another bank branch in the region, so I’ll no longer see her when I do my banking. That’s kind of sad... but also okay, because Diane and her husband and Leah and I have developed an away-from-work friendship.
So: What pictures to post today for Diane? As I sat down and began typing these few paragraphs, I really hadn’t decided what photographs I’d share, but then the images you see here came to mind. They’ve been sitting on my computer desktop since Spring, but I haven’t posted them. These pictures feel like good offerings for today -- photos I think Diane will enjoy (she’s a pretty easy audience.)
The pictures were shot at our community’s Food Shed, a farm-to-table sustainable food enterprise that is becoming a kind of town meeting-place. An ever-widening circle of locals finds their way to Food Shed where we buy eggs or milk or produce, or we just hang out and talk. Kids play on the tree swing. We visit the cute-as-heck baby goats.
See you at Food Shed, Diane! Let’s go pet us some cute goats!
