New Friends New Faces

Making friends has always come easy for me. I love to meet people who have the same interest as I do. Take for instance the two nice women I met on Saturday at the Shallotte NC Farmer's Market. Their names are Sarah and Sally and they are Mother and Daughter. They own and operate Indigo Farms here in southern Brunswick County.

Indigo Farms is a farm girl wannabe (that's me) utopia. Fresh seasonal vegetables grown right on the farm, organic and conventional. They also have a greenhouse with plants, flowers...you name it and a small cafe with homemade sandwiches, pies and cakes made by the sweet ladies that work there. They also have ice cream!!!

On Saturday they had the most beautiful, red, delicious strawberries (just picked the day before). I could not resist...I had to have a quart for the homemade ice cream hubby and I were going to make on Mother's Day. Fresh just picked organic lettuce, brocoli, cabbage, peas (both sugar snap and spring peas). Down at the next table they had fresh picked green beans, squash, freshly dug new potatoes....well I could just go on and on. Needless to say my Sunday dinner was divine!!! And the ice cream just wonderful. Thank you Sarah and Sally for providing wonderful produce for us here in Brunswick County....what could be better than knowing where your food came from and by whom!!! Keep up the good work. And for those who love to visit farms check out indigofarmsmarket.com You will be glad you did

Flowertown Bed and Breakfast

One of my favorite quilt shops is People Places and Quilts in Summerville, SC. And ever so often, I hear them calling me. Well...not really....PPQ doesn't pick up the phone and say "Dottie...we need to see you...come to Summerville...Actually it is Dottie's brain saying: "Dottie..Summerville is calling...you need to go and make sure that the ladies at People Places and Quilts are doing their job correctly" and all that good stuff that your brain makes you do!!!!

So at 6:00 am on Saturday my husband and I were in the car heading south to Summerville. We missed Eggs Up in Litchfield Beach ( I thought the restaurant was in Pawleys' Island) and so we ended up in Georgetown at a quaint little cafe and had the best eggs and grits evah!!!! There is something about stone ground grits...sorry Quaker Oats....the real deal is better!!!!

Arriving in Summerville we checked into Flowertown Bed and Breakfast and then it was off to Sew and Sew, The Downtown Farmers Market, all the other shops on the square and finally to People Places and Quilts. I feel very happy that I was able to "stimulate" the economy in Summerville and especially at Sew and Sew and PPQ. The Historical Society of Downtown Summerville was also having a festival with antiques in the square...so it was quite a day!!!

Our dinner was at The Continental Greek Restaurant and it was fabulous. We were joined by our friends Abby and Emery and Abby's roommate from college Melissa (nickname: "Cupcake")
We returned to the B&B and sat on the porch and admired the wonderful gardens the inn has and all the Bonsai carefully displayed in the garden. What an art form.

Sunday we enjoyed our breakfast at the inn and then a quick tour of a couple of more shops and then it was home to Southport. A quick getaway even for one day can stimulate more than the economy of a particular place...it stimulates the heart and mind of the visitor!