Autumn Has Been Unavoidably Detained...

It's a weird Autumn here in Paradise..no leaves turning beautiful colours, warm days where folks are still in shorts and sandals...
The only evidence of the season so far is cold mornings, and it's a good thing that I make big comfy circle scarves...I needed one  while setting up my booth at the Duncan Farmer's Market this morning...
Thought I'd share a  few pictures of the people selling near me...the colours of all the lovely vegetables and fruit will have to stand in for what is normally going on this time of year..we aren't sure when, if ever, the rains and cold weather are coming, but our lakes and rivers are drying up too...so the only people happy about what is happening right now are the farmers..it's been especially nice for pumpkins...
Right next to me from the local corn maze and pumpkin patch farm is McNab's, and Halley is covering cashiering while Bruce is BSing in the back with another farmer...isn't the colour wonderful?
Then there's Ben's Backyard, with Ben nodding and smiling behind his bumper crop of tomatoes, etc.
Finally there's Dina, who has been at this Market for many, many years..she makes beautiful sheepskin-lined slippers and polar fleece  Canadian Maple Leaf  Flag Coats, baby sized to big adult...
Finally, a glimpse of my Autumn/winter booth (last two images)..no jewelry this time of year, strictly hats and scarves...
To my few but fabulous readers, have a wonderful Thanksgiving..we celebrate ours on October 8th..early I know, but then we are farther from the Equator, and have a shorter growing and harvesting season than the US...

Ode to Aldergrove: Just Who Is Crossing the Line?

Since you are reading this blog, I can assume that you have noticed the two widgets just to the right; namely, the Ligit widget and the FlagCounter...I really enjoy them both, because they tell me, at the very least, who is reading or at least flashing through my blog, by country, hence the flags, or, if you click the recent reader's link on the green Ligit widget, you can see, further, which city, as well as country. I find this useful, since only two readers have commented at all since this blog began...guess I'm so devastatingly witty that there's nothing left to say, or no one actually READS it-so I can either stop blogging, or get my satisfaction where I can, and lately, that is discovering who comes along and from where, if not by name, then by city and country.
Which brings me to the theme of this particular tale: by far the place that shows up the most, every single day, and several times a day, is a smallish little 'area', Aldergrove-a community-within-a-community that is named Langley, a sprawling area in the Lower Mainland of British Coloumbia, bordering the Pacific Northwest of the US. Some here would argue that the whole damn thing is really just Surrey, but I prefer to stay quaint when the opportunity arises...
Don't really know much about Aldergrove itself, so looked it up through kindly old Professor Google-here goes-
The most well-known thing about Aldergrove, for me, was that there is a border crossing there, euphemistically referred to locally as the truck crossing, where, to avoid the huge lineups at the flashier Peace Arch crossing, most locals try first, when heading to the US to shop or whatever .
On the What to Do in Aldergrove site it was suggested that families might want to visit Dinotown, "fun-and educational too!" But what had me going was that Dinotown features a Petting Zoo-one shudders deliciously, imagining what sort of baby T-rex delights await there...
Oh and there's a Telephone Museum and Archives, which might tempt some thrill-seeker.

So, whoever my Aldergrove Follower is, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your exquisite taste, and most humbly apologize for not changing up the blog as often as you would so obviously desire, judging by the amount of times per day you link here..
And lastly, I do sincerely hope that my singling out my mystery admirer in Aldergrove does not discourage him or her from continuing to visit my site in the often-vain hope that I have written some new masterpiece of bloggery.
Aldergrovian, I salute you-and ask you to please, please comment, so that I know the click-on isn't machine-generated, or a vagrant fax signal gone terribly wrong...