Sunset and Main, A. Park 7/14/18. Paul Goldfinger  all photos ©  click image to enlarge.

The beefsteaks are from Tinton Falls–greenhouse grown. Soon the South Jersey crop will appear. ©  We bought some—good, not great.

Nice Jersey melons. ©

Jersey flowers ©

The onions are sweet. The sunflowers were for sale there. Cheese is 4 year aged Italian sold by the baker at the market.  Arrangement by Eileen. Blogfinger photo. ©

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger reporting from A. Park 7/14/18

The market has sprung back to life, with a nice mix of farmers.   They had corn, sweet onions, crusty Italian breads  (I tore off a hunk for immediate consumption) and cheeses  (aged for 4 years) from Paterson (excellent)–take home and eat or freeze, and many other items.   Parking is plentiful along the curb;  good to get there early.  Dogs are allowed.

Regarding the bread, we like the braided with sesame.  You can go across to the park, and like Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat   (11th century Persia), you can enjoy the wilderness known as Asbury Park:

“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”

Well, enow awreddy.   Time to drive back to the Grove and find parking.

THE CHARTS; “Desirie”