The season's first cherries

There are certain seasonal signals -- the first pitch of opening day, the smell of outside grilling after the rainy season -- that have a particular resonance, a mnemonic depth that carries beyond games, food, weather.  Add the year's first cherries to that happy list.  At this morning's Santa Monica Farmer's Market, the crowd at the cherry stand was so thick you'd think Barack Obama himself was handing out the Brooks cherries, in stunning shades of vermillion, loaded in plastic tubs like marbles.   

Now that you think about it, maybe a good old-fashioned cherry pie would be the perfect way to get those Super Delegates in line. 

Brooks cherries, $4 to $6 for a small or large container, from Erickson Farms. 

-- Amy Scattergood

Photos by Amy Scattergood