It's helpful to study up a bit for these little expeditions, but I didn't. We chose an exit and drove into town. Here's our first "sight". We came right to the center of town and chanced upon a farmer's market!
I couldn't decide whether I was more impressed with the market offerings
or the flowers that lined both sides of the downtown street. Ahhh, surely this is spring!
This was a great little market -- you can see it offers everything from emu oil to horseradish dip and mobile latte's.
And the produce was fesh, tempting, and locally grown. I settled on an orange cauliflower.
And then I spent my time capturing every different flower I could find.
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Yuma is a fairly large city with an interesting population. It's census figure of 90,000 doubles to 180,000 with winter residents each year. Apparently I'm not the only one in love with the idea of flowers in the winter! We went to the Tourist Information Center where a very nice lady gave us our two 'must-sees' -- one was the Yuma Territorial Prison which everyone should see (?) and the other that I would enjoy, she decided after talking with me, would be Robert J Moody Demonstration Garden. The old Territorial Prison was a pretty bleak piece of history
but it did set us up for this charming view of the Colorado River. 
And off to the side is the original railroad bridge of 1877, trains still chugging over it. 
We did indeed like the Demonstration Garden and ambled through its paths enjoying one variety of flower after another.
This garden is built adjacent to a large health-care facility. I know I for one would recover more quickly if I could walk among these flowers every day :-) 
You will probably imagine I have had my fill of flowers, but I will warn you that's not likely and there will be more to come in future posts.I was satisfied for today though, so we turned north again to go back to our RV home in time to catch "the sunset of the day."
Today was a good day.
