Round Top - A Texan Road Trip (part 1)

Have you heard of Round Top before ? If not, you are in for a treat, this is a tiny town (pop. 90) loaded with enchanted adventures and all with just in a few blocks of each other. So prepare your cooler and cameras and make sure to have comfortable shoes...you will love this little town!!!
Round top is well know for it Antique shows and pies. But what it makes Round Top special for me is :

1. The Round Top Festival Institute (pictures above)
The historic structures alone are worth the trip, the Institute beautiful grounds are usually open, so a visit on the less hotter months are a must.

2. The Family library
A wonderful stop, the library will enchanted any children or adult in that matter.

3.Henkel Square Market
This is a place to people watching, enjoy some coffee and delicious pies. Also you can admire lovely historic structures.

4. Shakespeare at Winedale
The plays are performance in hay barn made to resemble a Elizabethan theatre. The performances are excellent... 

There are so much more to this little town, bluebonnets, layback, perfect little houses, antiques...
Next all will post more pictures of our trip.

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A Wild Flower Hunt

"Every year is the same, when Spring is drawing near .

I must leave, I must go, for a wild flower hunt.

It is like a fever. A wild flower fever."

 

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 The best place to go around here, for a wild flower hunt,  is Chappell Hill,

a very quaint little town that even Anne of Green Gables would feel right at home, with a museum, historic sites and antiques.

Bring a friend, camera, picnic basket - or just stop at one of the local restaurants.

 

 Go a little farther to visit one of the two Lavender farms, to have ice cream on the Blue Bell creamery or even better visit the Rose Emporium.

On our trip, we decided to stop in on one of the local restaurant for Blue Bell ice cream. We visited my favorite antique store and drove to a Lavender farm (at this time of the year the lavenders do not show well, but the place is lovely, with lots of lavender goods, and the drive is pretty scenic).

 

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Chappell Hill

 

Fever cured!

The Painted Churches - A Texas Road Trip

Throughout this year, we have been exploring the little small towns close by Houston.

We found some lovely sites to visit , on one of those explorations we happened to stumble by a sign pointing to a Painted Church. Painted Church? Curiously we follow the sign , the beautiful country scenery with narrow roads didn't disappoint. The drive was short, but from the road we were able to see the point steeple picking from behind the trees. I was excited !

The lovely red brick church reward our curiosity, was worth our side trip, full of history and  masterly ornate, it was a site to behold, I felt like I found a treasure.

 But this  wasn't  the end, we discovered that there are seven more churches similar to Nativity of Mary (2833 FM 2672
Schulenburg, Texas 78956-5603) .

The lovely little churches are located around the country side , fairly close to each other.

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It was a year later that we were finally able to make a day trip to visit the other churches.

Its was a super enjoyable time  and I would recommend to anyone. Left me wanting to repeat the trip...maybe at Spring time.

 My pictures couldn't make justice to those  historical  churches.