Steinway Street: Saturday Shenanigans

On Saturday, SFS and I made a trip to the GreenMarket at Union Square. We decided to check it out before breakfast, and boy, was it a nice experience! We usually make it there in the early afternoon, and consequently have throngs of people to maneuver between... but in the morning, it's a much slower pace- we were able to enjoy a pleasant stroll through the stalls, while I snapped away.

Now that it's August, you know what's starting to arrive at the market?

TOMATOES! I love how yummy tomatoes taste... you can eat them like an apple this time of year... plus, the heirloom ones are so beautiful to look at- if I were Martha Stewart, I would use them almost exclusively!

Of course I admired the peppers, since SFS seems enjoy singing his taste buds! (NOTE: I'm totally ignorant of peppers- I hope these aren't lame, mild ones or something.)

One tent had some pretty hanging plants for sale, like this pink one...

And this fuzzy red one!

There's one BIG tent that always piles their produce in stacks, and I think it's SO pretty! I've become a little obsessed with red onions (I eat at least one a week, I swear), so I thought these looked really yummy!

How about some celery? Or green onions? (Are they leeks maybe? They look a little large to be onions, now that I've typed that...)

Well, I'm not confused about these... they're definitely carrots!

I like the colors in the this photo, but I'm not too keen on eating radishes.

Mmmmm.... more heirlooms! Aren't they just beautiful?

I thought this looked like fun, although I didn't try any because there are lots of germs floating about in NYC...

Pretty, cut flowers for sale...

And more pretty flowers (later this week I'll have to show you some pics of REALLY pretty sunflowers that I've been hanging onto)...

Lots of different kinds of honey... this stand reminds me a little of that movie "Baby Boom"- have you seen it?

Ooooh- Black Eyed Susans!

I think this is my second favorite picture of the whole day... GLADIOLAS are just so beautiful!

One our way out of Union Square (we were foraging for breakfast), we ran across an art instillation of sorts.

Yep- just big chunks of ice. We didn't see any information on the exhibit while we were there, but after a little Internet research I found this:

Artist Chin Chih Yang will invite people into an environment made up of 21,000 lbs of ice where they will be encouraged to sit on the giant blocks. The melting caused by the warmth of the participants’ bodies, will trigger increasingly frantic emergency lights embedded within the ice, making it glow in alarm—a simple yet forceful reminder of how human activity is hastening the melting of the world’s ice caps.

Apparently the instillation was called Burning Ice. Don't worry- SFS didn't really do this!

We decided to grab some grub at a local diner... one of my favorite ways to eat breakfast! I had some tomato juice (guess all those heirlooms got me in the mood)...

While SFS had bacon!

Just kidding- he had more that just bacon... see?

And I had a yummy egg-white omelet.

After breakfast we spent the day walking through Central Park- boy, was it hot out! After a nice, long walk, and a few hours spent unpacking SFS's room (he recently moved), it was time for dinner. We headed to Charm Thai for a little, you guessed it, Thai food. I had the Panang Curry with chicken...