Did I mention that there is money in Houston area???

We had to go to Houston today. There is a lot of money in Houston. We went thru one neighborhood in River Oaks and I took a lot of pics. Some of them are fabulous with porches, grounds that look like parks, etc. just some fun things. Here are some pics of the neighborhood and the Houston skyline as we came around the corner.

Visit to Amish Community - Amazing

overview from gazebo. stunning view. I would sit atop this hill and read among the trees and plants there and enjoy every minute of it.

this is the view of the barn from the hilltop gazebo. The barn was brought from Ohio. 

these are homeade/man made steps to the bridge.

another view of steps/bridge

view of steps going back up from bridge

again

view of bridge and railing

gristmill

wider view of gristmill

again, different wider view of gristmill

benches outside gristmill, between gristmill and the place where they do yarn/weaving

walk to yarn/weaving house, my friend Lori Walker. She and her daughter Barb are who I went with. I used to work with Lori at Apex until she moved back home to TX, so when I arrived we arranged to meet. 

the spinning wheels, they were making yarn while we watched

weaving scarves

again

different scarves being weaved

herb garden, I think Amanda would have loved this garden and spent a lot of time in it

again

again

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and again...I like the herb garden!

fountain fueled by water wheel outside gristmill

different view

again

trying to capture an amazing butterfly. Butterflies were plentiful

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and again!

greenhouse. Thought of Christina and Joel, I think they would have enjoyed this

path from greenhouse to barn/silo

back of building. so many unique buildings, I really enjoyed them all

garden

snails collected on homeade fence, took this pic for Tyson

garden

view away from garden 

base of silo

top of silo - well I have been calling it a silo but I think that is for wheat, this is for collecting rain water to water the plants...is that a different name??

basket weaving house

another water collector, the bigger one is where it is stored, this is just for collecting

basket weaving house again

butterflies I thought Destiny would like

trying to capture the elusive buggers...each patch of flowers had a different kind of butterfly with it which I thought was interesting

again

baskets they had woven, very lovely

this basket, these baskets were my favorites, so sad I took a blurry pic

more baskets

view from porch of restaurant 

different view from same porch

and another

it was a great porch!

ceiling inside of restaurant 

fireplace next to table we ate at

raw logs that made the wall in hallway, was unique and awesome

Such an enjoyable day. loved every bit of this adventure. We went to the store, the furniture shop, the pottery barn and watched her make a bowl and I thoroughly enjoyed all of the pottery, was exquisite. We also took a horse drawn hayride with 2 men from the community, 1 to drive the horses, and 1 to talk and tell us all we were seeing on this property. Was good to see Lori Walker and her daughter Barb. I had worked with Lori at Apex but had not seen her since she moved to TX a year or so ago. Nice to catch up. Overall a great day!!