A snow day

In New York city, snow storms didn't hit us as harder as the weather forecasts warned us. The first one last Saturday brought a few flakes of snow. The second one on Wednesday was supposed to be a very big snow storm, but it wasn't. On Tuesday night, I was thinking of the market while the weather forecaster kept warning and estimated how much snow we would have. If subway works tomorrow, I will go and check an empty farmer's market on particularly snowy Wednesday.

The title of my blog would be "Snow day off" or " Empty farmer's market."
Maybe, "A nice snow day with no farmers."

However, I was surprised that there were three farmers at the market! Even more surprising to me was that there were many people in the union square. There wasn't that much snow piled at that time, but I expected the strong warning to scare people off the streets. I thought I would be the only one.

I bought some of Fuji apples and had a cup of hot apple cider. When I confessed that I didn't expect anyone to be there, a farmer told me that she didn't either.She thought her tent would be the only one at the market. "But (snow is) not that bad." I couldn't tell if she was complaining about a snow-working day or proud of being there as a one of diligent workers.
One thing that has always amazed me is how diligent farmers are. I can imagine growing vegetables and fruits is a hard work. Selling them at the market is an extra job for them. Of course, it might be very rewarding in many ways, but I really appreciate and admire their hard work. Specifically on such a snowy day.