The Cushman Market is a small grocery store and cafe up the road from where I live. The front half of the store has an eclectic mix of groceries, many of which are organic or locally made products. Walk back past the reasonably stocked wine and beer section and you get to a nice cafe that serves sandwiches for breakfast and lunch, and serves drinks all day.
It is great to have such a nice place within walking distance. We often head over there on weekend mornings for breakfast, particularly on Sundays when there is a small jazz band playing in the back. I’m partial to the “egg, cheese, and bacon on an everything bagel”… delicious.
Tonight we were short on food and it was beginning to snow, so I took a quick walk over there to pick up some food. I snapped this shot of the cafe, which is the first night time picture I’ve taken with my new camera. It’s a little blurry from me shaking (or shivering–it was cold out!), but it still came out pretty well.
Today Megan and I took a hike up Mount Toby just north of Amherst in Leverett. I had read that the hike starts near a waterfall, but the stream was all dried up when we went, so the Roaring Falls trail had a pretty weak roar. The very start of the hike quickly climbs up along some steep cliffs where you need to watch your step. After that, it levels off and follows an old fire road along the creek to the top of the mountain. The leaves are only beginning to change now, but it was a very pretty hike.