On a recent foggy morning, something was up at the Saturday farmers’ market. Shoppers were preoccupied and looked like they were on a mission. A little ways from my stand, I saw a farmer struggled to put up his sign, then give up and toss it into his pickup. A crowd had already surrounded his stand. I got closer to investigate and then saw them: beautiful baskets filled with deep red cherries.  “I’ll take four baskets,” a customer said urgently, as if they were the last baskets of fruit on earth. I got in line behind them.

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