Wemberley and Austin

We spent a couple of nights in Wemberly, Texas with our friends Bob, Donna, David and Ellen, who have adjoining plots of land.










Contrary to popular belief, Central Texas is not a sun bleached, cow skull dotted desert. Instead it's a landscape of rolling hills, oaks, limestone bluffs and rivers.










The intense heat is alleviated by frequent trips to swimming holes.























Sometimes you have to get a friend to pump the water out of your lungs.





We also spent a day in Austin, my hometown.









We took a drive past our old house. We found the address, but our house was gone. It has been torn down and replaced with a very silly, turreted McMansion.




We consoled ourselves with big pile of meat.









Proper Texas Barbecue is slowly smoked over a wood fire, has no sauce and is eaten without utensils.










The smoking pits.





The fire.






You order by the pound.




















Toothpicks are often necessary.









On the way out of town we stopped for snow cones.