A visit to a Cool place on a Hot Day

A visit to a Cool place on a Hot Day  

The heron sculpture

Usually we go visit the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens in early Spring or sometimes in the Fall.It is a lovely park like place with acres of flower beds and interesting trees and plants very close to the downtown area of Fort Worth and close to the interesting area of museums and art galleries.

We have two old friends we have been meaning to meet to celebrate their birthdays.Their birthdays are in March and somehow or other the dates we kept trying to meet were not suitable. They live quite a long way from us and Fort Worth is a great central place to meet .So we arranged to meet at the garden restaurant there. , a charming quiet restaurant that has lovely summer type foods and wines and we really hadn't considered just how hot it would be at the gardens in July in Texas.

I have no idea what they are.

The weather today was VERY hot so we knew we would not be able to walk around much without melting into a little pool of butter. We got there about half an hour early so while we were waiting we walked to shady area around a little pool which is surrounded by perennial flowers. In the middle of the pool is a lovely sculpture of herons. Just a charming place to sit on a hot day and watch the world go by. While we were there we saw a lovely young bride having her photo taken and I managed to take a couple of flower photos although I am not sure what they are.If you know please write and tell me.

Then it was time to head back to the restaurant, meet our friends, exchange all our news and have a delicious lunch complete with wine and good conversation.

Now that is one of the best things to do on a hot day in Texas.