Welcome to #MarketFriday by @dswigle (Denise, that's me!)) We are in Boston again and if memory serves me correctly, I will probably have another one for Sunday. Then we can put Boston to bed for a month or three.

Boston's first public market, Faneuil Hall stands adjacent to the site where Quincy Market is now located. It was built in 1742 when the colonies were in their infancy. A gathering place, as many markets were, long ago and far away, yesterday's Patriots like Sam Adams gathered a crowd, giving them a thrill with his Anti-England rant, fanning the fire for freedom.

Quincy Market is the famous Boston Food Market located within Faneuil Hall Marketplace. It has over one hundred food stores and carts. If you're at Faneuil Hall, you are already there. Entertainment in the Market is commonplace, especially in the warmer summer months. You will see dancers, jugglers or any variety of different entertainment. It was actually quite fun to watch this acrobat on his unicycle.

Quincy Market was built to provide the much-needed space as downtown grew. They added the indoor market and vendor stalls. Faneuil Hall was on the waterfront and when Quincy Market was erected, the market was built on a landfill that was once part of the harbor. With the market traffic, six new streets were built to accommodate it.

Fridays are all about the #MarketFriday Challenge! Looking to take part in it? Here is how:

How to Participate:

1. Go to the market! Any market will do! Food, Clothing, Plant or Animal, if you wish. You can go to the zoo or an art auction. Anywhere or anything that you pay money for a service. I once went to a nail salon.
2. Take pictures! Be creative (or not)
3. Tell us a little bit about the market, what brought you here?
4. Post the picture(s)
5. Don’t forget to hashtag it! #MarketFriday by @dswigle
6. Drop the link to your post here so I can easily find them

It is always interesting to see the different markets around the globe! C’mon! Show me your market shots! I eagerly await them!

The market is fronted by a paved plaza featuring granite benches and lighting fixtures. To the north and south of the building are the North and South markets, which are separated from Quincy Market by stone and brick-paved areas featuring granite seating, wooden benches, lighting fixtures, outdoor vendors, and planting beds each containing a tree, according to QuincyMarket. org

Please leave the link to your post on here so it can easily be found by others. They will all be in one place!! Thank you! ❤

Take two, they are small! You know you can't just have one!

I hope you will join us as we share different markets. It has been such a pleasure to see markets from all over the world. Who doesn't love to see what they are selling? There is always a curiosity attached to foreign ingredients, different produce or any product sold. So, yes! I would love to see yours! So don't forget to take photos wherever you happen to be shopping - whether it be the grocery, art galleries, wherever money is exchanged for a service or for merchandise. Don't forget to use the hashtag #marketfriday and @dswigle.

A bucket of Chowda - to go!

The very beautiful center copper dome that covers the second-floor seating area. Everything about Boston is beautiful. It was built with opulence and formality in mind. Everything has glorious lines in their architecture.

A Christmas store - all year round. Oh, be still my heart. This one's for me! I want to break out in a verse of Oh, Come All Ye Faithful, but, the clerk is eyeballing me. Just like she can read my mind. I think I will sing it anyway.

STOP!! BRAIN TEASER AHEAD!!

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Question: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?



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Answer:Short

Love me ‘til I’m blue, my love
Wipe my every tear
Catch my heart before I fall
I'm strolling the line, can't you see
Far and away
Never to play
That melody to my heart
Again
Love, love me - Do

As always, there must be a flower. Always. This picture is dedicated to #FridaySkyBlue #ColorChallenge by @Kalemandra, who colors my world every day.

Cover me with a blanket of your memory
As I dare to reach out - and touch your soul
Fill it with sunshine, then let it go, let it go

Oh, the story about this weathervane has many twist and turns. Read about it here The real story? Above London’s Royal Exchange was a grasshopper weathervane recognized around the world as a symbol of commerce. Faneuil Hall was built on Boston’s then-shoreline, and Peter Faneuil no doubt intended it as a symbol of commerce, beckoning to ships that put into Boston Harbor. Faneuil Hall became a hub of commercial activity, a launching pad for independence from Britain and a center of abolitionism.

A cartload of nesting dolls. Patriotic ones. How could you resist?

The plaza surrounding the Market is a hotbed of activity. Eating, playing chess and shopping. It is the place to see and be seen.

Even a colonist needs to eat. It helps keep his patiotism intact.




Let the sun shine in on your life
So the joy may touch your soul



And just like that, this post is done. Thank you for taking a short excursion to the Quincy Market. I will be back in Boston on Sunday for another #BeautifulSunday by @Ace108 and #SublimeSunday by @c0ff33a! Heads up to get those posts ready!*

I have been discovering new places, some right in my own area! This week, I went to a new farmers market that was two minutes from my house and while I was there, discovered another farm that sells eggs. Yay! I love to share and be shared with! I am intrigued by different cultures. It is exciting and yes! I would love to see yours! Don't forget to take photos wherever you happen to be shopping - whether it be the grocery store, the local marketplace or even an art gallery, a kite festival! Wherever money is exchanged for a service or for merchandise. Be different if you wish! It does not have to be a traditional market! We will love it! I promise you! Don't forget to use the hashtag #MarketFriday and @dswigle.

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Thank you for visiting my post 💖 Because of you, I come back to post again and again, I am encouraged by you, for the time you take to visit, comment or even upvote. For all of these reasons, I am eternally grateful. Don't ever forget what a wonderful world we live in, people. Let's hold hands around the globe and make this earth really spin. Some days, it is not as easy to see, how wonderful it really is. Kindness counts. Wherever you go, whatever you do.

I always post this poem down at the bottom of my posts. It is one that has become so near and dear to my heart. I only post the most famous part of it, but, wanted to post it in its entirety today.

they set my aunts house on fire
i cried the way women on tv do
folding at the middle
like a five pound note.
i called the boy who use to love me
tried to ‘okay’ my voice
i said hello
he said warsan, what’s wrong, what’s happened?

i’ve been praying,
and these are what my prayers look like;
dear god
i come from two countries
one is thirsty
the other is on fire
both need water.

later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered,
"where does it hurt?"
it answered,

"everywhere"
"everywhere"
"everywhere"

warsan shire

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