Hunting For Mexican Food

One of the places we have really enjoyed in Arizona was lRancho Tia Rosa. Located in a lovely hacienda style building, the ambiance and the food were equally good. The place was full of flowers and at Christmas, it was decorated to the hilt. Last year, while we were here, they closed because of a kitchen fire. Then we read in the paper last month that due to a lease renewal  issue, they were not going to re-open. They have another restaurant in Gilbert, but it's quite a ways away and doesn't have the ambiance.

I looked today on the internet to see if we could find another Mexican restaurant that was highly rated. We ended up tonight at a place call El Canto in Fountain Hills. The food was okay, but nothing spectacular. And there was NO decorations what so ever -- unless you call a string of balls on the lectern as you came in. I guess we'll keep looking.

These are some more pictures from our explorations yesterday. This group of horses were grazing near the road --

We spotted this phainopepla with its crested head. It's the first one we've seen this year. It feeds on the berries of the mistletoe, of which the mesquite trees are loaded.

 

Later we saw this pair. It doesn't look like there is much grass  here!