As part of my birthday celebration last weekend, Jennifer took me on a road trip up into the beautiful mountains east of Phoenix.  We stopped first in Pine (34.385067, -111.457709), population 2,000, to wander around the annual Strawberry Festival.  It’s not really a classic summer festival, and they were out of strawberry pie, but it was a spectacular day in the mountains and we did manage to catch about 30 minutes of a great blues band.

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