Photoessay #851 - Blue Cottage Jam

Do NOT buy Blue Cottage Jam, that this lady sells at the Farmer's Market.

If you do, you will find yourself eating it straight out of the jar, you will start buying cases of it to get through the winter. Your friends will have a taste and they will find themselves in the same state. Buying cases.

And when you think that you've got your favorite picked out, somebody will share another with you. I started out with Peach, tremendously delicious. Gin preferred strawberry (I admit, it IS intense). Then we all got a taste of the Tayberry and all bets were off, had to buy lots of the Tayberry. Then a few weeks ago, a customer shared that her favorite was Pear. Pear jam? Who would like pear jam? I had a taste, wow. Bought lots of pear.

Surely she couldn't improve on these jams ...I stopped by there on Sunday and she had a new flavor...Peaches and Cream. I hate to ask. "It has some vanilla in it and a bit sweeter, here's a taste" OMG, had to buy several of those.

I know last year, Ilana wrote on her blog when the Farmer's Market closed. No jam until May! How will we get through???

Last night Ilana and I went to Kol Nidre at Kadima. An organization where I never quite got along. But I recognized the people and I was glad to go. A confirmation class was there for a Lutheran Church. The actual chanting of the Kol Nidre is the most intense liturgical moment of the year. But drawn out, dirgey and boring if you don't understand the context. Even reading the translation of the prayer doesn't really do it for you.

An interesting question, the prayer leader said that the Kol Nidre was meant for things in the coming year, that the vows that we would fail to honor in the coming year would be excused. I always thought it referred to the previous year.