Our first
stop on Monday was Wildseed Farms, which is just down the road from where we
are staying.
In the Seed
Room you can buy over 90 different varieties of wildflower, vegetable and grass
seeds.
The gift
shop had some very lovely things. One
thing I admired and should have taken a picture of were some exquisite beaded
shawls. I would never go anywhere
suitable for wearing anything so fancy but they did catch my eye.
Plants in abundance! I know some ladies in Indiana who would have a
field day here. I was thinking of you
Dinah, Linda and Beth!
This is the
view of the Brewbonnet Biergarten outside the wine tasting room. Once again, we ran into mostly dry wines so
we passed on the tasting. Besides it was
still before noon and I hadn’t had lunch – it would have gone straight to my
head.
Heading into
the outside gardens.
The Butterfly
garden had plants to attract butterflies but none were in residence today.
I love
poppies!! This facility has trial
gardens and production crops, different flowers are blooming throughout the
year and right now it is poppies.
We could see
a field of another kind of flower across the way. There are 200 acres here devoted mainly to
wildflowers.
Texas Blue
Bonnets were popping up in several places.
I understand these only bloom for a short period of time each year.
There is a
half mile walking trail through the fields, with several areas with seating
where you can take a rest if necessary.
If you don’t
feel like walking you can always hop on the trolley.
We stopped
in the Amish Market, Amish stores are usually a good place to find some
different low sodium treats. They also
had some beautiful furniture.
Since we had
been here before I knew I wanted to stop by Rustlin’ Rob’s Texas Gourmet Foods
for some Mexican vanilla. Of course, we
did a lot of sampling of other products.
I love this
building. It is currently a library but
it was previously the courthouse. The
new courthouse next door is definitely not worthy of a picture.
Our last
stop of the day was the Fredericksburg Winery.
There are 15 wineries represented in downtown Fredericksburg – there are
40 throughout the area. In addition to
the wineries there are some very impressive looking breweries. Since Fredericksburg was founded by German
settlers, German beer seems to be a specialty.
A look down
Main Street.
Our
purchases today.
We met some
more of our neighbors last night, but they were moving too fast to get a good
picture – at least 5 very fat chickens.
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