Lafayette: Farmers' Market at the Oil Center, Winter

Farmers' market, Oil Center, Lafayette, Louisiana

In the parking lot across the street from the Champagne (shawm-pine) Market, every Saturday morning, is a farmers' market.

Farmers' market, Oil Center, Lafayette, Louisiana

Being as it was rainy and in deep December, there weren't a lot of vendors here, but there were some.

Farmers' market, Oil Center, Lafayette, Louisiana

I had breakfast at the market, which included: 

• One pickled quail egg (not bad)
• One beef-potato tamale (good)
• One kale-cheese chip (would have been good without the cheese)
• About 4 oz of beet juice (good)

Farmers' market, Oil Center, Lafayette, Louisiana

Farmers' market, Oil Center, Lafayette, Louisiana

I bought three pounds of satsuma oranges at the market @ $1 per pound.

Lafayette: Oil Center: Lights

Sad to say, the annual Festival of Lights at the Oil Center was a bust. Rainy, cold, wet. Hardly anyone was there. A business owner told me that usually the little business district is packed full of people at this festival, enjoying live music, pics with Santa, window shopping, eating, and drinking.

But at Mixology, an art gallery, there were three spaces filled with light, gilded with color.

Mixology, Oil Center, Lafayette, Louisiana

Mixology, Oil Center, Lafayette, Louisiana

Mixology, Oil Center, Lafayette, Louisiana

It was a sunny place to be on a dreary night.