I am trying to remember that Walburg holds a Farmer's Market on Wednesday afternoons, starting at 5 o'clock. I missed the first few, because I was out of the habit (I had visited several times last year), but I am trying to get back into the swing of things. Lots of tomatoes, peaches, figs and stuff that we have already (tomatoes thanks to Hubert and Pauline). We are peached out, and I am taking figs in to the office and they are not a big winner in the 'I want some' category. BUT, the baked goods at two different stands look delicious. I bought four small loaves of various breads last week, and four loaves this week. I also bought six kolaches (a warm, slightly sweet pastry, traditionally filled with sausage, cheese, or fruit), that look wonderfully good. In my case, I got raspberry, peach and something else. I say all the breads and kolaches LOOK really good, because I have not had any of them. I can buy, but I'm not eating.Precocial -- Adjective. capable of a high degree of independent activity from birth. "Hares are like deer, horses and cattle in the sense that their offspring are precocial." Bill Danielson, The Recorder (Greenfield, MA), June 26, 2014
Did You Know? Precocial and its partner alltricial are really for the birds (ugh!). Well, at least they are often used to describe the young of our feathered friends. The chicks of precocial birds can see as soon as they hatch and generally have strong legs and a body covered with fine down. Those are attributes you would expect in birds described by the word precocial, which traces to the Latin precox, a term that means "precocious" or "early ripening" (yes, that root also gave us the word precocious). Ducks, geese, ostriches, pheasants, and quail ore among birds that hatch precocial offspring. Altricial chicks, on the other hand, are basically featherless and helpless at birth and require days or weeks of parental care before becoming independent.
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