Farmers' market flowers

I go to farmers' markets to buy fresh produce. I try not to have a shopping list. Instead I buy what calls out to me, like those ruby red strawberries did last week. Damn those were good.

One thing that consistently calls out to me, but which I seldom purchase, are the flowers. Gosh are the flowers amazing. It's not the prices that turn me away. No no. The flower prices are always unbelievably reasonable. My excuse usually has to do with not "needing" flowers, and how cumbersome they can be to get all the way home. 

So lame!

A varied bunch from Chicagoland farmers' market, circa 2014

Let's not forget to add flowers to our mental farmers' market shopping lists. Go for the bunch that sings your name. They nourish us every bit as much as those sun-filled, juicy-as-beating-hearts heirloom tomatoes, just in a different way. 

Wouldn't you agree?