We decided to find someplace new to walk today. Checking out Tripadvisor led us to a real gem, a small nature center along the Guadalupe River right in town. Next to the parking lot we spotted this bat house, built to hold up to 250 bats.
We walked around the small former farm, which has been transformed by volunteers into a sanctuary for birds, insects, and native plants. Two white winged doves paid little attention to us as we walked up close to them. While we watched, they spread their feathers and flattened themselves to the ground. After a minute or so, one slowly gathered itself together and walked a short distance, and soon its mate followed suit.
TheNature Center provides a trailhead for the new Guadalupe River Trail, which is only partially completed. We walked along the section from the Nature Center to the Louise Hays Park. This section crosses the length of Tranquility Island and offers walking bridge access to the public library, which has just undergone a renovation funded in large part by HEB, which is where we went next to pick up some groceries.
After dinner we welcomed our friends Bruce and Mary Sue and Willis and Rebecca over to share some snacks and cherry pie along with some interesting conversation about ghosts and unusual things to see along America's roadsides. Rebecca has an iPhone app for that! Bruce and Mary Sue told us about the Moonville, OH, ghost that is seen around the railroad tunnel. Rebecca told us about a man convicted of murder on the strength of the testimony of a ghost.Tomorrow our friends are off to McKinney Falls State Park, and we are heading to Hondo, to the Escapees co-op park there.
We are not planning an early departure in the morning, but our neighbors apparently are. We watched them hitching up this evening.
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