Wayside_Wisdom Heard Along the Way
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BLANCO SETTLEMENT Blanco Settlement is just east of the Texas hill country town of Blanco, on the river of the same name. It is a privately-owned establishment recommended to us by friends. It has twenty RV sites, nine fully furnished vintage-style cabins, an office and gift shop and is laid out like an old frontier settlement. A windmill, outdoor well, porches with swings and rocking chairs add to the frontier feeling. The spreading old shade trees and beautiful, creative plantings give it a beauty all its own. There are two densely planted wildflower gardens and the front door of each cabin is surrounded by well tended flower beds. Scattered attractively around the park are livestock watering troughs of various sizes, claw-foot bathtubs, an antique wagon and various sized buckets all filled with live flowers of various kinds and hues. Pinks, cacti, sunflowers, hollyhocks, corn poppies, petunias, daisies, black-eyed susans, pansies, geraniums, yucca plants, mums and dozens of blooms we could not identify make this place a gardener’s delight. As we walked and drank in the colors, a scissor-tailed flycatcher flitted around the garden and then flew off toward the next patch of flowers. The silent, smiling blooms invite the tired traveler to stop, relax, enjoy and settle in for awhile in this little sanctuary on the bank of the drought-stricken Blanco River. So, tonight we’re settled – and feel temporarily "at home" – in Blanco Settlement, Texas. 3 May 2009 - mshr
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