Hand crankin'

Not the same as the Watson's roaster, but good for the confined space of the farmer's market. You can see the blue flame at the bottom of his contraption. The chile is red and green in the roaster -- it is about the end of the season for the green. This vendor brings produce from his Deming farm.

There were eggs this morning!
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Yes, that is a giant floating chile pepper!

Fall in NM means all things chile. At the game last night the wind was blowing from the red direction (earlier in the season green is the pervasive aroma). Since there has been no soccer this year, I miss smelling the chile processing plants. Saturdays at the Farmer's Market usually provides a good whiff of green roasting, but not as much as hours of fall season soccer on bleachers near the factories.

This weekend is The Whole Enchilads Fiesta, in which LC legend Roberto Estrada will again make a ginormous enchilada. New Mexico heat is the order of the weekend, whether from the sun or the chile.
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Weekend scenes

Not really a weekend scene above, but one from this morning, on my ride in. I debated riding, because the house was socked in by fog. But about a mile from home, I came out of the cloud and had a cool, clear ride in after that. This photo was taken with the Blackberry, from the curve around Tortugas, looking back to the mountains.

And to the right... We snuck off for one last bag of chile from the Watson's. We got Big Jims (very mild), but meaty and hearty and roasted to perfection. The rellenos were delectable!

Coming up... The pumpkin in the past post will be 10 inches at least by the time I get to photographing it. Most weekends, we find at least one more pumpkin under a yucca or in the middle of some other bush, reminders of past year's of Jacob pitching rotten pumpkins from the roof.