Poppies and Bluebonnets on Friday

Castroville is a beautiful, quaint Alsatian town about half an hour west of San Antonio.  Today Joy and I met there to soak up the colors of poppies before they go away.

The building of The Steinbach Haus began in France in 1618,
interrupted by the Thirty Years' War,
and completed in 1648.
Twelve children were raised in this house in the late 1800s.
All the beams were shipped to Castroville in 1998,
donated by the citizens of Alsace. 

Fields of red poppies are blooming all over Castroville--
and the cemetery is filled with bluebonnets. 

Joy and I have been friends for forty years.
Here she is posing in the poppies

Getting down into a squat is challenging, but anything
for a photo op!