We like to take driving trips and explore as much as possible and sometimes it takes us on dirt roads, over cattle gates and through dried up or almost dried up creek beds.
Some people like to fence in and gate their properties and don't want to share it with outsiders.
Jim and I enjoy hiking so one Saturday we headed to Enchanted Rock State Nature Area. Here we climbed part way up to the Summit of the Rock and also hiked the Echo Canyon trail.
After driving past Pogue Sculpting Studio many times our MDS director arranged a tour of the studio and foundry. Here we saw how they made brass castings from the original clay figurines. We received a tour by the owner who is a renowned artist here in Texas.
A few pieces of art on display in his gallery.
Over the door of Lyndon B. Johnson's home.
Friday we did our monthly MDS outing with the group. We started the day by going to the LBJ State Park where we saw a working farm like it would have been in LBJ’s childhood. Then we did a driving tour of the 600 acre LBJ Ranch (Lyndon Baines Johnson, was a past president of the United States). We also toured part of the LBJ Texas Whitehouse on the ranch.
The president's office and desk in the Texas Whitehouse.
Picnic lunch on our day outing.
Then our group headed to Fredricksburg where some of us did a walking tour of the historical district. One of the things we saw was the “Sunday Houses”. That was a very tiny house owned by farm people who stayed there on weekends when they came to town for church.
After we all had enough of walking we headed to Luckenbach which is nearby. This is a town of about 25, where everybody is somebody. They had live musical entertainment, but it seemed like they catered to beer drinking bikers and we didn’t seem to fit in. We ended the day with a wonderful Swiss Bavarian restaurant meal in Fredricksburg.
This cowboy entertained us by showing off his steers skills.
Saturday morning one of the couples did a delightful waffle bake brunch and another couple supplied some spicy venison/wild boar sausage. It was great!
