Texas Hill Country

Beautiful weather today. Clear, mostly sunny, high in the 70’s as we transition from the cities of the south to the Texas hill country and then to West Texas.
 
Breakfast at Nate’s Baked, a funky little local bakery. Left Jeffrey’s lovely, if small, wildflower garden and  spent the morning at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, wandering through their gardens. In addition to the flora, the garden had art, both real and augmented reality

Then lunch at the Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, one of the famous BBQ places near Austin. It was very good, but it made us realize that the quality of Q available in Boston has started to approach that of the really well known hotbeds of BBQ.

The afternoon was a drive through the Hill Country on the Devil’s Backbone, a ridge that loops from Wimberly to Blanco. The area is mostly treed, so the only views were in the breaks of the foliage. Nice, rolling, wooded hills. Pleasant, if not spectacular. One stop was at Jacob’s Well, a deep pool with lovely colors from the sun on the rocks. 

 
Our home for the night is a lovely B&B outside Wimberly, where we spent the late afternoon sitting  in the sun by the pool. Not a lot of good choices for dinner, but we watched a beautiful sunset from a lovely beer and wine garden overlooking the hillside.