VINO ANYONE?

Saturday, March 2 – Continuing our Saturday outing, we next stopped at two wineries both in Comfort, Texas. Yes, it is only 11:00 a.m. but we have to start sometime.

Our first stop was The Singing Water Vineyard.

 

The tasting house is a rebuilt 100 year old Hill Country barn. There are three tasting rooms, and they were all full.

Jan was wonderful. The bottle she is holding is called 2010 Freedom. The sale of this wine supports our troops with college scholarship funds for children of veterans.

Their white wines are cold processed in stainless steel tanks for natural fresh flavors and aromas. This is the first time we ever heard of using stainless steel tanks.

The other winery we visited was called Bending Branch Winery. It is an organically focused operation with 13+ acres of vines, comprising 13 varietals, a wine made primarily from a single named grape variety.

 

This is a smaller winery but very nice.

We enjoyed six different wines. Yummy!

We enjoyed the wine sampling in both places and highly recommend them. Marsha purchased two bottles of wine at each place. She's again collecting wine from different areas for a wine tasting party she's planning for this summer.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y'all back real soon. Have a great day!

BOERNE, TEXAS

Saturday, March 2 – We were off early this morning for a BIG DAY touring this part of Hill Country. Our first stop was the town of Boerne (pronounce BER-nee). We visited the town back in 2010. Not much has changed since then. It is a very quaint little town. The town's first settlers were German. The name Boerne is in honor of Ludwig Börne, a German poet and publicist. Ironically, Mr. Börne never visited the town that was named after him.

We strolled main street doing some window shopping and stopped in a number of the small shops to look around. Our only purchase was a jar of pickles......yep, pickles!

This bakery has delicious treats.

A visitor can rent any of the small buildings out back for their night's stay. The church and schoolhouse both can be rented. They contain several bedrooms.

Lots of interesting items can be purchased in the small town.

If only our truck were bigger.

We bought a jar of pickles from The Pickle Place last time we were here. They are delicious. We had to go back and buy another jar. They are called Fickle Pickles…sweet, crunchy, spicy…yummy!

If you visit Hill Country, don't miss this delightful town. More of our day in tomorrow's blog.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y'all back real soon. Have a great day!

SKYLINE RANCH RV PARK…BANDERA, TEXAS

Friday, March 1 – We are in Texas Hill Country, Bandera, Texas. We had a long but safe six hour drive north from the Rio Grande Valley. We're staying at Skyline Ranch RV Park.

We stayed here back in 2010 and are actually in the same site - #106.

Looking at our site.

The Park has a country setting, with gravel roads and sites. There is a picnic table at each site and the majority are pull-thru sites. We have a 50 amp, full-hookup site. There is grass and trees between each site. With the campground not being very crowded this time of year, they spread out the RVs leaving an empty site between each. That's nice!

Looking left.

Looking right.

One of the lovely gardens at the Park.

Shady place to sit and relax.

Cute gazebo for more relaxing.

Once we were all set up, we took Bella for a well-deserved walk. She has been on concrete for two months and loves to get out and walk in the woods. She was enjoying her walk until…

she encounter this.

This little guy just couldn't get enough of Bella. He followed us until he couldn't follow no more.

The park has tons of deer. So far they have stayed in the field. The last time we were here, they walked freely through the Park.

The temperatures this time of year, range with lows in the 40's and highs in the upper 60's or 70's. With that said, temperatures for the next two nights are dipping down near freezing.....GREAT! The good news is daytime temperatures will be in the 70's with Monday temperatures reaching into the 80's.....NICE!

We went to the 11^th Street Cowboy Bar to have several beverages, listen to the Natalie Rose Band, and do a little Texas Two-stepping. We had a good time and enjoyed the band.

We knew it would be a classy place when we saw the welcoming signs on the door.

Lucky for us, no one took them up on the dance requirements.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y'all back real soon. Have a great day!