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Weekend Snapshots:

1. I spotted a sandpiper darting around a parking lot.
2. Enjoying a Saturday morning cocktail at Merchant after the Farmers’ Market.
3. At the Farmers’ Market, we picked up cheese curds, aged cheddar, hot sauce and a flower-shaped cookie.
4. We visited the carnival on Sunday and I couldn’t resist another summer treat: cotton candy.
5. The ferris wheel.
6. Another sign of summer: the ice cream truck. (When I was little, my mom told me it was a “music truck.”)