There's really not a fruit or vegetable for just one season...

Fruits and vegetables

I absolutely love FRESH FRUITS, VEGETABLES & HERBS which is why I love farmer's markets and roadside produce stands!!

When I was growing up we always did a majority of grocery shopping at a local market and traditional butcher shops--where meat was cut & weighed to order then placed in red plaid paper containers wrapped in white waxed paper and taped.

I suppose that's the beauty of growing up with "big-city-fied" but still very much country-at-heart parents...appreciation for the basics & simple pleasures of life.

The choices are just too numerous for me to narrow down so I will broaden it to the whole fresh foods category.

If I could take an epic road trip I can think of a lot of places that I would drive just for the sake of seeing the scenery and truly experiencing the country.

However, one I'd like to take that could be most easily accomplished would have to be driving the the contiguous United States and visiting their respective capital cities as well as major cities of interest.

To date, I have been to approximately 23-25 states either by water, land or air and have visited many majors cities but not always had the opportunity to drive into/through them.

I would take massive amounts of pictures, eat all types of local cuisine, see the sights and just delve into whatever it was that state in particular had to offer or touted as its claim to fame.

In high school, I fell in love with the name Rowena....there was just something so regal sounding about that name and the perhaps its the fact that its a multi-syllabic name which I am really fond of seeing that my name is 3-syllables.

In all these years I have only ever known that one girl in particular to have that name and while that could be due to a regional thing...I think it's also so cool to have a unique, not-oft-heard name.

While I love and/or prefer that my first name be used in its formal state and not abbreviated....I actually used to dislike my middle name due to being teased about it. I would lie and say that my middle name was Nicola...until I met a girl named Nicola...I didn't really want to identify with that name anymore.

As I grew into myself I came to love the uniqueness of my own name and wouldn't dream of changing it to anything else.

I will often go by the first and middle together to create an even more multi-syllabic name (5 syllables) or use nicknames that combine the both of them for yet another unique twist.

RANDOM INTERESTING NAME FACTS:

*Both my first name and my middle name (or variants of) are each titles of and/or used within the title/chorus of multiple songs.

*My first and middle name together have a significant meaning based on my date of birth.

*Name origins (first, middle, last) are: English, French, Gaelic/Irish

*My first, middle and last names all have 6 letters

~peace & blessings~