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| Sunset from our front porch |
We are in Texas and the hill country is just as beautiful as
everyone said it would be. Growing up in
West Virginia, the mountain state, it’s hard not to compare what other people call
hills to the ones at home. And no, the hills are not the same here. Some curvy roads and beautiful vistas, but it’s
not West Virginia.
We are about three miles east of Fredericksburg , population
10,000 give or take. What a great
place! I’m sure small towns all over the
country are envious of its downtown where there are no vacant storefronts and
there’s always people milling about.
Many of these people are tourists but the town residents themselves have
a great sense of community. We went to
the Christmas parade a week ago and it lasted well over an hour.
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| Pyramid on town square. |
A couple of things were done a little differently than we’d
seen before. We thought we may have had
the wrong night when we went because an hour before it was scheduled to start
there were still vehicles parked along the parade route. Of course there were – everyone parks their
pickup on Main Street early in the morning to have a prime spot to watch from
that evening. The street is four lanes
wide with diagonal parking on each side so it makes sense.
Because the street is so wide they did something else we had
never seen. When the parade participants
got to the end of the road so to speak, they didn’t stop. They all made a U-turn and paraded in front
of the other side of the street. Again,
different but very practical. The
participants didn’t have to hitch a ride back to their cars at the end of the
parade – they marched back.
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| LBJ Hereford -- initials burned in horn. |
We have done some sightseeing while here. Lyndon B. Johnson’s Texas white house is only
15 miles up the road. It is still a
working ranch with descendants of his prized Herefords being well taken care
of. We went into San Antonio for a day,
more to give us a chance to leave Bud at a kennel than to see the sights. We did stroll along the River Walk and walked
to the market square. We didn’t go
through the Alamo but will be doing that at a later date. Maybe the subject of the next blog update.....
