Temecula Valley Certified Farmers Market

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You go for tomatoes and leave with stone fruit, a jar of honey, a loaf still warm through the paper, and a coffee you had not planned on.

Old Town on a Saturday morning does something to a person's schedule. The boardwalk and the cobblestone make it feel like a town rather than an errand, the air comes warm off the valley before the heat means anything by it, and the market pulls from the growers, farms and wineries that make this the most productive agricultural pocket in Southern California. Olive oil pressed nearby. Bread from an actual oven. Somebody playing guitar on the corner and nobody in a hurry to be anywhere.

Ynez Road in Old Town Temecula, free, every Saturday morning.

Take the person you never get unhurried time with. This is a slow morning of it, and neither of you has to plan a single thing.