A day in Blanco, then Comfort

Two special events hit the calendar on the same day. A music festival on the grounds of the county courthouse in Blanco was the first stop. The plan was to have various musicians perform from 11 am to 3pm while festival goers perused the artists' booths. Of the musicians we chose to hear Blanco's own Larry Natwick, a jazz pianist and his sidekick base viol player. One humorous bit was when we asked them if they did any of Brubecks stuff, they were hesitant but then announced they would play Take the A Train, and went on to say that the Canadians call it Take the Train, eh?.

Well, here's a video clip:

We asked if they had any CD's of their music, and he reached in his dufflebag and handed us one, and said you may have this one. It was of an earlier time when the pianist was part of a quartet. We stayed about an hour as planned. It was chilly and we were glad to get back in the car where it was warmer.

Then, it was a turkey (LO) sandwich for lunch, one that we packed before leaving this morning. No really good places for a café lunch here.

Off now to Comfort for their Christmas in Comfort Festival and parade---we always miss the parade as that starts at 7PM after most of the out of town riff raff have left town --we presume. This festival has three streets filled with vendors ranging from some nice handcrafts to some basic worthless stuff.

The parade route was all blockaded off when we arrived around 1pm and it was incredibly hard to find a parking place. Finally accomplished it and after starting to walk in the direction of town were pleased to find we were ending up very near High's restaurant where we could get a cup of coffee and where we found a little table outside. Fortified with the coffee and a cookie we hit the street.

Here's what the street scene looked like:

Dee did find two nice scarves for a cheap price, made no doubt in some foreign place, but still nice looking.

Made it home in good time, safely, at 4:30 pm.

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