Yesterday we made the trip from Casa Grande to Mesa to our friend Nancy Burkhart's home. got the motor home parked in the side yard and all hooked up. That orange tree out the dining room window certainly looks beautiful with the dark green leaves and bright orange fruit. There is a grapefruit tree in the yard behind that hangs over the back fence. It will be a few weeks before either get ripe enough to eat.
Our photos are of Why, AZ. This is of main street that goes straight through town and the other is of a very southwestern style church in town. It was all decorated for Christmas.
Today we spent the afternoon at a local flea market on the east side of Mesa. What an operation. It was almost a block long with 4 double sided rows of booths. There was almost anything you could imagine there for sale. Jewelry was a big item with all kinds of bargains, 50% to 70% off. All of the finest quality (they said). There was lot of local items from the south west. Many items from foreign manufacturers. Some really neat little cars that did all kinds of things. They would go, stop when they bumped into something, the doors would open and close and the front would go up and then down and the back would go up and then down, just like the low riders do. One model was of a Smart car. Very
interesting item to get for a youngster, or even for an oldster if you liked cars. All kinds of clothing from tee shirts to stockings to hats and everything in between. There were not a lot of people there today so it was easy to navigate through the various booths and really get to see what was there. I imagine there will really be a big crowd tomorrow and Sunday.
Back to the ranch, so to speak, and get something to eat and try to teach Nancy the game of Mexican train.