Every Saturday morning all summer long, the parking lot across the street from me is transformed. Friday night, it’s full of sports cars and sparsely moustached, beer-guzzling boys with cell phones and car stereos that shake the glass of my front windows, but come Saturday morning at eight, it’s a farmer’s market. There is the fey fella selling homemade dog biscuits, the family-run fireweed honey corporation, the lesbian cheese makers from Salspring Island, a gumpy poter, and a sunburnt man selling bundles of organic mustard greens and butter lettuce. You can buy cherries and maple syrup, visit the latte wagon, and get gardening advice. You can sign petitions and join a jam-making group that donates to the food bank. There are face painters and banjo players. People wear sandals and the dogs rarely get into fights, because everyone is too busy saying hello and showing off their new bedding plants. Yard sales spring up spontaneously on street corners.
Ivan Coyote, One In Every Crowd, opening to “Saturdays and Cowboy Hats”
Johann Mongles Culverhouse – Moonlit MarketPetrus van Schendel (1806-70) Market By CandlelightPetrus van Schendel (1806-70) Night-Market In Amsterdam, With The Dam Palace And The Nieuwe Kerk In The BackgroundNorbert Goeneutte French painter(1854-1894) The New Halles Central Baltard 1881Paul Gustav Fischer (Copenhague 22 July 1860 – 1 May 1934) was a Danish painter. Fisherwomen Waiting for Customers after the Rain, GammelstrandPaul G Fischer (Danish, 1860 – 1934) Gammel Strand, 1923The fish market by Paul Gustave FischerJoaquín Sorolla i Bastida (Spanish painter) Preparando pasas, 1900‘A Fishmarket in Venice’ Postcard illustrator unknownPaul Fischer (Danish Painter, 1860 – 1934) Vid Frimanslogen, Fruktvagn i Köpenhamn, 1923Paul-Gustave Fischer (1860 – 1934) Naples Street Scene, n.dFrank Frigyes (1890-1976) Street-market in ParisBernard Boutet de Monvel (1884-1949) Couple Near BooksellersNorbert Goeneutte French painter(1854-1894) Les-Halles de Paris‘The Merchant of Venice’ Illustration by Nikolai Zhukov, 1962Achiel Van Sassenbrouck Mr. Jollys sidewalk market, 1963 illustrator, Laura Jean AllenBarbara Cooney (1917-2000) illustrations for Mother Goose 1964 in French marketJane Werner (1914-2005) and Cornelius De Witt (1925-1970) collaborated and produced this 1949 book called- Words How They Look and What They TellThe Ladybird Book Of Bedtime Stories Geoffrey Lapage, Illustrations George Brook (Wills & Hepworth Ltd., Loughborough UK, 9th edition 1950) marketHeidi and Peter In The City by Alain Gree 1971Edna Eicke (American, 1919-1979) The New Yorker magazine, May 30, 1953Victorian-Era lemonade vendor on the streets of London — 1872. Illustration by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)Charles E. Martin, New Yorker cover illustration, 1976Helen Jacobs (American, 1888–1970) The Fairy MarketFlorence Harrison, 1877-1955, Australia, UK, Fairy Peddlars marketRaoul Dufy (French, 1877-1963) The Fish Market c1905
Walter Crane 1845 – 1915 London Town
Winter scene by Anton Pieck, Dutch (1895-1986)The Flower Seller on the Pont Royal with the Louvre beyond, Paris,1872 Marie-François Firmin-Girard, French, 1838~1921Anton Franciscus Pieck (19 April 1895 – 24 November 1987)Anton Franciscus Pieck (19 April 1895 – 24 November 1987) European market Rene Cloke (1904-1995) Nursery Rhyme ‘Smiling Girls, Rosy Boys’. From the Juvenile Productions 1951 publication ‘Ride a Cock-Horse Nursery Rhymes’La Vucciria (Palermo’s Market), (1974) by Renato GuttusoMarket photo on Unsplash by photographer Christian MackieAnd here’s the photo with a Renato Guttuso style, done on Deep Dream Generator with a 60% style weight and a 1.2 iterations boost. (Everything else at default.)Based on an Unsplash photo by Lesly DerksenUsing a photo by Gabriella Clare Marino
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
