last open market day revisited

I'm a bit late posting this, but I got some beautiful pictures that day, would be a shame not to post them. That Sunday the market was bustling in part because Saturday was so rainy and that this was also the last open market day, JTM would close up the walls for winter. Day like this you don't mind the pushing and shoving so much... well. We stopped by François des Bois' stand to get some 'shrooms, it's going to be hard letting go for the winter. I hope things went well enough with them to return next season. They've had some really interesting varieties of mushrooms available, really top quality farmed as well as wild. They also have things like aroche de mer (sea spinach), thé du labrador, wild ginger, sea parsley, all local products and decently priced to boot. We got a flat of eggs from the Capitaine Jr. resisting the temptation to get duck eggs while there, we we're on the hunt for fruits and veggies for storage. We hit Jackpot with the apple stand that is down the aisle from Birri et frères. They had big bins with honeycrips, goldens , gala's and some of the usual suspects (mac's, lobo's), really big attractive specimen's not too expensive considering the quality. We rounded our selection off with Empire's from another stand and spotted a big 15lbs bag opf small red beets a steal at 3.50$. We got smoked mack at Atkins, cider at saveurs du marché, smoked almonds and macadamia's for snacking at the nut stand. A piglet's head from Porcmeilleur, enough bags of pasta to last us part of the winter from Milano's and finally we hit Havres aux glaces to pick up some chestnut ice cream for home...of course we had some ice cream on the spot too. I had a mix of pumpkin and orange (their fall flavour) and also the burnt maple caramel , this one is the most intense, molasses like flavour, intense caramel notes, just this side of too much, for caramel fiends only. How can one not be inspired by all the brouhaha of the market, it always puts me in a good mood and sets my head a spinning with ideas.