DAY TRIPPIN' THROUGH DAFFODILS

We decided this year to get out of 'Dodge'* every once and a while. This weekend was the '25th Annual Daffodil Festival' in Camden, Arkansas, USA. It is about two hours from us. We could get there; look at the daffodils; and be back home before dark. We had planned to get there by noon and eat at the Postmasters Grill, but it didn't open until 5pm. Plan B: walk around until we found a place and menu we liked. 

                                                                 

Just off Main Street we found 

What's Cookin'. Delicious hamburger! for me and a fish po-boy for Chuck. I picked best! 

The owner of the restaurant was a collector of everything Grapette.

I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, drinking Grapette, a grape drink bottled in Camden. Grapette's headquarters is now located in Malvern, Arkansas.

Now it was time to find the daffodils. That was easier said than done. The daffodil locations were a few miles out of town. As 'Amanda' (another story) at the Information Center said, "They're in the country." ...and they were. We could have taken a shuttle, but we prefer to be in control of our time. We elected to drive to only one venue, Grace Hill. 

Koi Pond

Daffodils in back of Koi Pond

There were a lot of daffodils as we drove in. Those had been planted long before the house was built. In the back there were plantings of different varieties that will spread over the years. Grace Hill was completed in 1992 and is a copy of the George Wythe house in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1750. 

Time to head home to my own tribute to the daffodil. 

It was nice day and we are already planning our next day trip.

*Hot Springs Village

(another story) We got to visiting with Amanda and found we knew some of the same people in Camden. Also, they were practically our neighbors in Little Rock before they moved to Camden. I also started talking to another lady and found out that we had worked at the same bank in Little Rock many years ago. Proves again-It's a small world.