One Year; To Fredricksburg
by ScottLook at your calendar folks, it was this time last year that you were all invited to attend our wedding! Tina and I are very happy with our lives together. To celebrate, and just have a relaxing weekend, we wanted to explore old Fredricksburg, Texas. For a three day weekend we drove across the State with our two puppies; joining us were Phil and Tara. We stayed at Barons Creek Side and it was wonderful. Daniel, the owner, has built a romantic getaway perfect for a weekend trip to Fredricksburg. On the property there are several cabins situated around a babbling brook with ducks. Each cabin has a theme with one or two bedrooms. The property is uniquely decorated with fiberglass cows from Switzerland, Daniel’s homeland and lovingly handpainted. We mostly relaxed for the weekend, took a few trips to main street to visit the shops and enjoy a beer garden or two.
On the way back we did some Geocaching and stumbled onto Sculpture Ranch for Pharoah’s Treasure. There is a huge property out there filled with sculptures some of which are really awesome. See the pictures below. Apparently this painter/sculptor/artist from Italy settled in Texas to make a gallery out in the middle of no where. It feels wired and disjointed to find this in east Texas. Definitely recommend if you’re driving through Johnson City it’s worth the stop.
Here’s a sampling of pics from our trip, but visit our Flickr page to see all of them
- Sandee did another awesome job and made us a one year anniversary cake. It’s a small replica of our original wedding cake!
- The best bike we say on main street in Fredricksberg.
- Maisy rolling in the grass at Barons Creek Side.
- We watched the sun set just before lighting a fire and cooking S’mores.
- Mia thinking, “where is the nearest pillow?”
- Scattered across the property at Barons Creek Side are fiberglass cows.
- Bluebonnets at Wildseed Farms
- Flowers reaching high into the big blue Texas sky.
- One of the best sculptures at Sculpture Ranch. It is made of Copper and Steel.
- The hands of the mountain reach out and grab you.
- We’ve been reading Game of Thrones, so when we saw this we said: “Winter is Coming!” in unison.
- A sculpture near the geocache.
- The namesake sculpture of the Geocache we visited.
- A giant red rocket meets you at the gate.
- Scott and Tina next to a patch of Bluebonnets.