This enterprising watermelon and fruit salesman wasn't going to let a little rain shower get in the way of business.
As a storm threatened (and it did pour after a while), he tends to a customer attracted by the blood-red watermelon halves visible all the way across the street from the intersection of Price and Paredes Line Road.
If anything, the nice showers washed the melons and freshened the day a bit before the oppressive heat returned and turned the day into a hot, humid afternoon.
We hope that by publishing this photo we don't get the enterprising salesmen in trouble with the city's health inspectors. It used to be that the city was crawling with these salesmen who would provide fresh produce and fruit before they were required to have health and sales permits by city officials.
Sights like these are more prevalent toward the outskirts of town along state road right-of-way toward the Port of Brownsville, and almost everyone is acquainted with the one leading off US 77-83 on Highway 100 toward Los Fresnos.
During harvest time of carrots, onions and other vegetables, they dot the road along Military Highway in western Cameron County and into Hidalgo County. It is not unusual to purchase citrus and vegetables in 50-pound sacks for ridiculously low process.
As citrus and vegetable production moves toward the upper and western valley, these scenes will be come less common. Many of these watermelon salesmen travel into the neighboring northern counties where the purchase them by the truckload from farmers.
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