My camera loves it here

Out early this morning, I wanted to get some pictures with the morning sun and shadows.

My header picture was taken in the afternoon with the  shadows on the front.  This was taken with the early sun shining on the front door.  I still think I like the header picture better.

Is a better picture of the bell in the belfry of the chapel.

I hope this cross is reinforced well against the wind.

Right behind the chapel is a big China Berry tree, loaded with berries.

Isn’t that clever?  A sign that resembles hills.

Quaint latch on the front door.

The creek looked like glass this morning.  So beautiful.

A rustic scene next door.

Decorations by the front door of the office.

It’s a lovely walk up to the entrance past the pecan orchard.

This cypress tree caught my attention.

I walked all around this structure and found no door or opening of any kind.  I was thinking that it might have been a water cistern.  When I got back to the office, Lisa, the owner was there and I asked her and I was correct.  She said the orchard was planted in the late 1920’s and the water storage was probably built then to help with irrigation of the orchard.

A view of the RV park through the orchard.

Morning Moon Over the Hill Country

Corner posts braced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After all, this is Texas.

Inside the office, there are all kinds of interesting objects hanging from the ceiling.

Don and I spoke with owner, Lisa Cauthen, about Johnson Creek RV Park having a chaplain here during the summer season.  She was very receptive and will be speaking to her husband, Tom, about it.  Lisa was very nice and we are very impressed with how they have developed this park and are still making improvements and additions.

Don and I drove into Kerrville to check out another park as a summer assignment for another CRM chaplain.  This park is located on the Guadalupe River where there are many large cypress trees.

It’s pretty here, but the water isn’t as clear as Johnson Creek.

Don spotted a few very small perch in the river.

We must check out the VA hospital.

And we did. The entrance to the VA hospital is lined with American flags.  It’s a big operation here.

Visible from quite a distance coming into town on highway 16.

Now for a bit of history: 

Joshua Brown, known as the “Father of Kerrville,” was recorded as the first actual settler to make his home on the upper Guadalupe River. Brown who was born in Kentucky in 1816 came to Texas in 1830. During the Texas Revolution, Brown joined Sam Houston’s army
and fought at San Jacinto where victory and independence were won with the defeat of Santa
Anna’s Mexican army.
When the army disbanded, Brown went home to Gonzales and married Miss Sarah Jane Goss. In 1844, they started west in search of a new home; his first stop was Curry’s Creek, an early settlement that is now in Kendall County. It was here that Brown took up the craft of shingle making. Soon Brown decided to move to a more suitable area for shingle making.

This is all of interest to me because we met one of her relatives today, Robert Goss.  When we asked him how long he had lived in Kerrville and he said his family had been here with the Comanche Indians before there was a town here.