The Japanese Festival at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden

I have been working a lot of weekends lately but not this Saturday. Today I went to Fort Worth for the Japanese Festival at the Botanic Gardens. There were lots of things to see like bonsai

and ikibana

and a few really interesting people.


I had a real treat and got to listen to a koto concert

I have heard the koto before but never live. The music was beautiful but there was a lot of background noise. I thanked the musician after the concert and she promised to e-mail me when she is going to have another concert so that I can hear her play in a better setting. Something to look forward to.

A train show and a pottery sale.

There was an ad in the paper yesterday for a model train show at the Lockheed Martin Recreation Center in Fort Worth. I have never been to a model train show before and I thought it might be interesting. There were a lot of vendors selling model trains and supplies.

The big attraction for me was the model train layouts.

The model trains were a big hit with the children.

Some of the trains were very fancyful and some were very realistic and all of the trains were a lot of fun.

After I had looked at all of the trains I went to the pottery show and looked at pottery.

The pottery was interesting but there really wasn't anything I could use so I looked at everything and bought nothing then went home and cooked pork guiso for dinner.

A rainy Sunday afternoon

There is usually very little rain during the summer here in Texas and this year was no exception. The comming of fall brings cooler weather and rain and this week promises to be quite wet. There was rain all day Sunday and as much as I love rain it was too wet to get out for a walk.

I had spent the morning reading the paper and it was time to get out of the house or go stir crazy. There was a new antique store in town that had just opened so a trip there seemed like a good idea. I spent an hour looking around and taking pictures of their stuff.

I loved the barber chairs but they really belong in a barber shop; some of the furniture was nice though. Some of the dealers had a lot of household stuff.

The sewing machines were nice, my mother used one like the one on the floor for many years

One dealer had a whole wall full of clocks.

Another dealer was selling old radios.

Mostly they were just selling odds and ends. It was a really fun trip and I had a good time looking the place over but it made me kind of sad, I am older than most of the stuff they were selling. I thing they need to call this something other than an antique store.