We had a beautiful day today. I always look for "small town America." If you were reading the blog 2 years ago when we went to the submarine convention in Springfield Missouri, when we got to Hannibal Missouri after working our way "up" the Mississippi I went all crazy over small town America. Today we left San Antonio and drove to Sonora, Texas and found "small town America – main street." I had researched and was looking for "Friends of Sonora" and the Veteran’s Museum on Main Street. Found a wonderful guy named Bill who manages the friends of Sonora and he not only showed us the veteran’s museum (tributes to townspeople who have served in the military and some who gave their lives, along with a September 11 tribute) he had tributes to the women of the west also. Then he took us on a town tour. showed us where one of Butch and Sundance’s men Will Carver met his maker… listened to an old restored house give us the town history and stayed with us for over an hour and then we sat and drank wine and talked for another hour. He is a rancher so we talked about raising goats and cattle and the Texas drought… he is excited about the restoration of main street. We then went to the Caverns of Sonora. My goodness how beautiful!!!! The caverns are alive with lots of stalagmites, stalagtites and electites (these are curly horizontal growths), and water ponds and milky rocks with crystals – very beautiful. It was an amazing 1 1/2 mile cave tour. I kept seeing angels’ wings in the "growths". I took plenty of pictures. We came back to town where by the way many houses are stone covered in a lovely light stone… went to rest in a Prayer Garden, an amazing little public effort. Imagine a family donated a building lot and then someone wonderful designed a little garden with a stone (concrete) cross all inlayed with stones and neat wood and shells… Little stones had Bible quotes and the many names for Jesus are carved into the stone ground around the cross. Just a wonderful small town secret. I took plenty of photos there too! Finally we went to the town ampitheater where Bill thought we might hear music, but no one came to play. Did hear the local school at band practice. That’s pretty much it for today. We might explore a nature garden called Sonora’s Eaton Hill Wildlife Sanctuary tomorrow, but honestly, Chuck might have had enough garden walking in the heat… So we might head for the higher elevations. We are booked into the Fort Davis Historic Hotel Limpia a restored 1912 Inn in Fort Davis. We will see the McDonald Observatory and the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Preserve, but I’m getting ahead of myself!!! God bless you and have a wonderful summer evening.
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