Vetere Melons - Oh, My! Such Sweetness!

13 August, 2016
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.  


A watermelon float! Found in the parking lot of  the John W Powell museum.


The ones in front are Israeli melons - quite yummy!



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. 


This whole tree was uprooted!! Luckily, not on top of  the nearby trailer!!



On the golf course



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.

Hopefully only collapsed - and not broken or torn!

Feeling lucky as I finish my day!

3 comments:

  1. I best melon I ever tasted was an Ugly Melon I found at a stand in Roseburg Oregon.

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    1. I 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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    2. I 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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