Green River, Utah
What could be better on a really hot day than a cold slice of melon?
All over the small town of Green River are signs advertising farm stands full of locally grown melons. Most have samples in big coolers - this was handy because there is no way I could buy a watermelon - they were all huge (but oh, so sweet!). Luckily, most of the stands also have a good selection of other melons - some I've never even heard of.
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| A watermelon float! Found in the parking lot of the John W Powell museum. |
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| The ones in front are Israeli melons - quite yummy! |
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| The big blue cooler held samples! |
I intended to buy only a cantelope - but, after seeing (and tasting) all the different varieties, I wanted one of everything! It didn't help that one family was buying 8 full-size watermelons and a bunch of the smaller ones (for a big event down south a ways).
I finally settled on a small ripe cantelope and an almost ripe small Israeli melon. The Israeli melon should be ready to eat just about the time I finish the cantelope.
Wind! The natural enemy of trailers and tents . . .
Late this afternoon as I was inside the trailer cutting up my cantelope, the wind picked up outside. Then the wind REALLY picked up - for about a minute, the trailer was rocking and the trees outside were cracking! The micro-burst truly lasted only about a minute - but when I went outside, I saw that quite a bit of damage had been done around the campground.
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| This whole tree was uprooted!! Luckily, not on top of the nearby trailer!! |
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| On the golf course |
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| Right onto a campsite - fortunately, unoccupied! |
Luckily, although there were a lot of branches downed and the one tree - it didn't look like any trailers cars, or people were injured!
And even though about 1/2 of the tents in the park were collapsed, they were all staked well enough that none of them blew away.
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| Hopefully only collapsed - and not broken or torn! |
Feeling lucky as I finish my day!
I best melon I ever tasted was an Ugly Melon I found at a stand in Roseburg Oregon.
ReplyDeleteI think the important part is to buy locally so the fruit is fully vine ripened - I'll have to remember to try an ugly melon if I'm near Roseburg at the right time!
DeleteI think the important part is to buy locally so the fruit is fully vine ripened - I'll have to remember to try an ugly melon if I'm near Roseburg at the right time!
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