Settlers' Crossing

We arrived at our little cottage at Settlers Crossing in the late afternoon, just in time to kick our shoes off for a bit before heading to dinner.






Our little cottage, with two doors (we aren't sure the original purpose of that?) and an old barn

Fredericksburg is filled with cute B&Bs, but we wanted to stay outside of town so we could have some room for the dogs to run. Settlers Crossing is in a gorgeous spot just a few miles west of Fredericksburg, past some vineyards on the road to Luckenbach. All the cottages are originally from the 18th and 19th century, original to or moved to the property, and furnished with antiques and textiles from the period. By strange coincidence, our house, the Indiana House, was furnished with antiques from Sweetbrush, a historic home in Austin that was owned by Nicholas' relatives (Zachary Scott & family) back in the day. Stranger still is the fact that I got to tour this house the previous weekend (now primarily furnished with the current owner's possessions). We always joke that we'd like to reclaim the house and live there - and I'm sure they'd let us for a few million dollars.

View from the bed (me = lazy) - that picture on the wall is actually all needlepoint! And who knows how old.

We had a little local wine under the arbor (yep, me too, just a little with doctor's OK - though I was so paranoid about it I couldn't even finish the glass) and watched the hummingbirds. As hummingbirds are part of my fabric designs for the nursery, we thought this was kind of serendipitous. Miller has been practicing with my camera lately so that I can be in a few pictures when the baby is born (auto mode is strictly forbidden around these parts), and he got some pretty decent shots of these notoriously hard to shoot little guys: