Old Scottsdale

2/08/09 An Afternoon in Scottsdale

Weather - It rained some last night but the clouds broke up this afternoon. Clouds in Phoenix?

It was about a half hour drive to Scottsdale on the east side of Phoenix. The rain we had yesterday has started to "green up" the desert and things are a little less brown.

We parked in Old Town Scottsdale and shortly thereafter a trolley bus that makes a circuit around Scottsdale was coming down the street so we flagged him down and got on.
He makes a circuit around the old part of town and then over to the modern shopping district.

Old town was wall to wall jewelry stores with much turqoise and southwest type jewerly. Looked but no buy. We also looked in a couple of art shops that had some beautiful western art and sculptures. Again, no buy.

Coming back from Scottsdale the clouds were beautiful and the shadows on the mountains were the things that artists would love. Would have liked to taken time to take some more pictures.