Fredricksburg

Posted on | June 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

So two weekends ago we headed out to Fredricksburg to see if we could find some peaches to bring home. It would have been a waste of a few good hours to stay at home and sit in front of the computer, know what I mean?

Wildflower field

Texas Hill Country is just awash with wildflowers right now.

Wildflower field

Wildflower field

You just have to deal with this when you wade through the wildflowers and grasses:

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We stopped for a moment at this place and found it’s very dog-friendly.

Wildseed Farms

The Wild West isn’t complete without a prairie schooner, is it?

Wildseed Farms

They had several fields of wildflowers being cultivated. But if you cultivate them are they really still “wild”?

Standing Cypress

Wildflower Farm

Sunflowers

Waterlily

We drove into Fredricksburg, grabbed a lunch to go then headed back out. We found a spot where we could eat outside but Sprocket found something…

Sprocket Spies...

She has good reason to look worried. The picnic area was crawling with these guys:

HUGE ants

They are HUGE. I wasn’t about to put my hand or toes near them so you could get a sense of scale. They were all over the place and had even worn a path in the dirt with their comings and goings. There was also this, which I got by judiciously avoiding the ants:

Thistle

And I finally remembered to get a picture of these guys, drive-by-shooting style:

Camels!

After lunch, we hunted for peaches in earnest. We were trying to find a certain peach stand. We couldn’t find the right one, but there was no shortage of peach stands this year. We even had the bonus of ice cream!

Peaches

Category: Around Town, Family Stuff

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2 Responses to “Fredricksburg”

  1. k.d.
    June 12th, 2010 @ 4:51 pm

    once again… great photos.

    i love these wildflower fields, we have lots of them here in my neck of the woods!

  2. phisch
    June 12th, 2010 @ 4:51 pm

    Time to share some pics, sir!

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