Scribble Picnic - Market

I love markets and have been to some exceptional ones around the world.

It was hard find a good market scene photo to work with for today's theme.

 They were just all too busy looking - which is great for any market - but a bit 

too much for editing for Scribble Picnic!

Did have some good photos of produce though so chose this

 one, turned it into a b/w 'sketch' and added back color with 

those trusty watercolor pencils.

So, you get a glimpse of these beautiful French artichokes from

Brittany, displayed on a market stand in Carcassonne when visiting

 my brother's home just a 20 minute drive from the city. 

It was raining that day and I recall the fruits and vegetables 
 looking so fresh on their outdoor stalls

Hope you will stop by Michael's SCRIBBLE PICNIC today -

join in or just enjoy our members' art.

Thanks.

. . . . . and if interested here's little history on the amazing Cité de Carcassonne : via Wikipedia

Inhabited since the Neolithic period, Carcassonne is located in the Aude plain between historic trade routes, linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean sea and the Massif Central to the Pyrénées. Its strategic importance was quickly recognized by the Romans, who occupied its hilltop until the demise of the Western Roman Empire. In the fifth century, it was taken over by the Visigoths, who founded the city. Its strategic location led successive rulers to expand its fortifications until the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659.

Its citadel known as the Cité de Carcassonne, is a medieval fortress dating back to the Gallo-Roman period, and was restored by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1853. It was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.^[1] Consequently, Carcassonne relies heavily on tourism but also counts manufacturing and wine-making as some of its other key economic sectors.

Visit to a Carcassonne Brocante. . . . . . . . . . .

My brother took me here for a whirlwind look around a brocante in the lovely 

historic city of Carcassonne. Outside the walls of the original cité, it was quite a jaunt

through a rougher area of town and across a river to reach the huge building.

I didn't buy much - after all, one suitcase won't hold a beautiful iron bed (just 15 euros),

an elegant statue, a complete blue transferware tea set (so cheap!), and those amazing 

stacks - yes there were dozens - of old French beautifully monogrammed linen and cotton 

sheets, oh how I would have loved to bring them back home. I did purchase a nice

 cotton cutwork square European pillow sham, and an old print on board of angels

 which must have been part of a book, will show you those later.

Anyone else having problems writing their posts on Blogger these past couple of days?

Seems to be acting up, especially with cursor problems.

Edited - Sunday 3:45 PM
Well looks like I'm not alone! Visited a forum and found
 many with the same 'no visible cursor' problem when
 trying to write/edit Blogger posts using SAFARI!
 Apparently Safari just upgraded from version 8 to 9
 (don't recall them asking my permission!)and it has
 caused this glitch. It may just be when using
 Apple products(I'm on a MacBook Air), and hopefully
 Apple will work on correcting the annoying problem. 
Meanwhile I'll be posting using Chrome.