Fields of Gold, Cuero, Texas

Coneflowers at Lady Bird Wildflower Center, Austin

Fields of Bluebonnets on IH-10 between Luling and Houston

Field of Bluebonnets at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas

Wildflowers on FM 105, west of Lake Conroe, Texas

25th Anniversary Houston Art Car Parade

Saturday, May 12, 2012, 1 pm
Allen Parkway, Waugh Drive to Bagby
Houston, Texas
Route map: http://g.co/maps/kmq8y

The Art Car Parade is free and you may view the parade from any place on Allen Parkway. You are invited to view the cars and meet the artists as the cars line up at Taft and Allen Parkway, beginning at 9am.

The Orange Show Monument

Saturdays and Sundays
Noon – 5pm
Admission: $1.00 per person

The Orange Show is a multi-level folk art tribute to the orange. The 3000 square foot outdoor exhibit was built by the late Jefferson Davis McKissack from 1956 to 1979.

There is an oasis, wishing well, pond, stage, museum and gift shop. The Orange Show is made up for standard building materials and “found” materials such as tiles, gears, tiles, wheels, mannequins, tractor parts and statues.

This location is considered one of the most important folk art environments in the United States. Check out the website (http://www.orangeshow.org/orange-show-monument/) for visitor information and for programs other than the Art Car Parade.

RV Parks in Area

Space Center RV Park (Good Sam discount)
301 Gulf Freeway South
League City, TX 77573
Toll Free: (888) 846-3478
Local: (281) 554-8800

Marina Bay RV Resort (Good Sam discount)
925 Marina Bay Drive
FM 2094
Kemah, Texas 77565
(281) 334-9944

Kemah RV Resort (Good Sam & TACO discount)
675 Miles Road
Bacliff, Texas 77518
(281)559-2362

Lake Shore RV Park
1191 South Main Street
Houston, Texas

We have been traveling around Houston lately. We are staying at an RV park on the outskirts. We went exploring and we found an outdoor shop like a rustic lodge. They had a fishing pond, several rocky streams stocked with trout, a room-size aquarium and stuffed animals on the walls.

We looked around for a tent for camping for our sons. They want to go RVing with us and our trailer is not big enough, and mother is not patient enough, to have them in the travel trailer with us. We looked around and had decided on one tent, when I remembered that I had visited a site online that had good prices on a Texsport Cool Canyon Tent.

When went home, I went online and found the Texsport Cool Canyon Tent for less than $100. This camping tent is fire-resistant and measures 8 feet x 10 feet by 5.3 feet (height). The tent has a silver polyurethane coated rain fly, polyurethane-coated walls made of taffeta and a front rain fly. The tent is secure and easy to set up. It has a rip-stop polyethylene floor, speed clips that secure the tent to the frame, and no see-um mesh door (with storm flaps) and windows.

Now, I have no excuse. The boys will be going on our next trip. I will let y’all know how it turns out.