Meanwhile Back at the Chanel Counter

Do you know that there is not a single Chanel counter in Round Top, Bleiberville, Nelsonville or Bellville?  The makeup sample from the Chanel counter at Macy’s is perfect and I need some.  So it’s time to windup, or rewind or unmosey or quit meandering and gear up to get back to Houston.  Besides our whole vocabulary was changing.  We would sit on the front porch and in the distance we would hear the crunch of the dirt road of an approaching car.  Gary would look at me and say “Is somebody coming down our lane?”  Just like you see on television….there we sat looking a little Ma and Pawish as we rocked and looked out over the countryside.  We found ourselves saying things like yonder and waving at folks as we passed them on the two lane roads.  Don’t get me wrong.  We had a wonderful time.  We went into Roundtop and ate at Royer’s Café.  I told Bud that I had taken his picture at a wedding that I had photographed and that he had catered.  It was a great picture of him looking at his pies.  Susan said, “He looks at his pies like we look at our grandchildren.”  We wondered on the town square.  Liz, my friend and assistant extraordinaire, watched the older man sweep the steps of the general store.  We got terribly lost on the backroads and I was sure glad we had allowed enough time to get back to Bleiberville and Cemetery Road.  But I’m feeling a little antsy and wondering if I am a little more of a city girl than I thought that I was on Saturday.  I just need to go into a department store.  I love it that in about one hour and change I can get out into the beauty of Washington County, but I also love it that I can get back to Houston in the same amount of time.  The people that drove out were delightful.  I am so glad that we shared this beauty of this place in a spectacular wildflower season.  But it is time to get back to the studio and the glorious life that Houston offers.  Bye Bye Bluebonnets.  See you next year Indian Paintbrushes.  You outdid yourselves.  As Jimmy Buffet says in one of his songs, “Everybody take a bow.”