During 2001 I recorded about 2600 images at the Farmers Market in Kalamazoo. Monthly arrays of some of them document my first visit in early March, visits almost every Saturday morning from June through the last day of the season in November, and final visits to reminisce at the end of the year:

March, time to look for a harbinger of spring after a long winter . . .

June, time for asparagus, strawberries, rhubarb, root crops, flowers galore . . .

July, time for berries, beans, and other greens, but sweet corn became king . . .

August, time for colorful summer favorites, plenty of corn, peaches, melons . . .

September, time running out for summer produce, last days for some farmers . . .

October, time for fall colors and bounty, apples, pumpkins, mums . . .

November, time for more apples, pears, cabbage, and end of the market season . . .

December, time to reminisce and anticipate.

These 188 photos are linear narrations of a densely concentrated group of small spaces spanning a market season. Stories of a market season can be “read” in moments. Consider the storytelling potential of compressed linear narrations of any geographic space spanning a decade, century, millennium, or more.