Mexican Flavor

Fruit stand worker. Tomasito photo, 2009

It is very pleasant to be living in a small town with a Mexican flavor.

There is a good Mexican Supermarket in walking distance from our apartment with all kinds of interesting foods and things from Mexico--and the music playing while we shop is Mexican Salsa instead of the usual fifties pops.

There are several old fashioned fruit stands at the edge of town--which is not so very far in this small town--where we can buy local fruit and vegetables in season--fresh and ripe from the fields.

Sweet oranges, for example, fresh from the tree--not picked green so they can be shipped halfway around the world.

There are lots of border struggles going on further south of course, but 40 miles from the border we can enjoy the strong Mexican influence without the fear that is generated by the present miserable border hassles.

Tomasito 2009


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