Wednesday night fever

Darkness falls in America early this month as we set our clocks back an hour for Daylight Savings Time. (Photo: 

Electric lighting illuminates the apples at the Davis Square farmers market in Somerville, Massachusetts, earlier today.) 

Night was falling at 5 pm at farmers market in Davis Square (Somerville, Massachusetts) today.

You could have bought 14 different kinds of apples there.

I have been following the Arlington and Belmont markets, which have three apple vendors (and sometimes four).  Davis only has two.

The suburban markets ended on Halloween. Davis is the nearest of the urban markets that will continue until Thanksgiving.

With only two sources of apples, and some retirements, the count is down to 14 varieties, a subset of the 21 for sale just one week ago. This week's assortment:

• Ambrosia
• Braeburn
• Brock
• Cortland
• Empire
• Evercrisp
• Fuji
• Golden Russet
• Honeycrisp
• Jonagold
• Macoun
• McIntosh
• Pink Lady
• Spencer

This is not bad, but there are still more to be had outside of the city and suburbs, at orchards and farm stands.

Not for a whole lot longer, though.