Western Heritage/graduation/Mother's Day Weekend

The annual University graduations, Western Heritage,
and Mother's Day weekend
was supposed to be lovely weather....
But on that Saturday the winds blew in some storms.
Our guests were still able to host bunches of family members to a picnic on the hillside.
We were told that the sandbox was a real hit with the under 10 set:)
Glad you guys liked it... ours do too!
Of course... as soon as the weekend concluded... the weather of spring returned to the somewhat sultry pretty days of May.
Ebear says HOWDY to all you guests and "yall come back now... ya hear?"
(maybe next time there will be no car in a ditch for the back hoe to remove:)

Mother's Day, Western Heritage, and Graduating Universities.... all this weekend!

Happy Mother's Day Y'all!!!

These beauties are right outside the back bedroom of the 2 bedroom cottage...

don't know how long the weather will hold so they will continue to blossom, but these are

spectacular... just for today I think!
Our guests this week arrived to 105 degree heat!

Thank the LORD for the cool breezes on our porches!

Then, just like Texas, the weather changed bringing a high of 69 for the Saturday of
Western Heritage weekend!

Our entire crew attended again to a sell out crowd!

Yeah for the Clydesdales of Budweiser! Amazingly lovely animals and great Ranch rodeo folks!

We feel so blessed by the miracles we see everyday and even more thankful

for eyes that can see them.... Spring... Yes, we love it here at the GateWay!

I told our new friends from Houston... "we don't do much advertising, but we've found that

the ones who've been led to our cottages are EXACTLY ones that were meant to be there!"
Sure enough, that was the case with this sweet family who'd just enjoyed a daughter's wedding,

and now, through a variety of circumstances engaged our place for a graduation weekend.
I've gotta tell you,
I knew from the moment I saw them... "yep... I'm gonna like 'em"
A hug and a smile later, we were talking Young Life and Bible Study Fellowship...

Just wanna say "thank You Paula.... I am a word person, and I truly appreciated your 'word gift' left on our refrigerator white board! It spoke to me this morning, Mother's day, of not only being who we are called to be, but of ACCEPTING that calling with joy!"

We love all our guests... and this is yet another new friendship led our way by way of the

GateWay!

May in the Gap at the GateWay

The days here in May have been teasing!!!

They tempt us with the promise of rain, and yet.... just dew kissed mornings is what we have

(we are only 4 days into our wettest month... but we hope for rain each day!)

The xeric gardens at the cottages are doing well... you can see the salvia greggi here alongside the 2 bedroom cottage (as well as some renegade poppies that I just couldn't let Troy cut down, eve though they wandered into the drive area)

Wildflowers are spectacular here on our little hillside.

Anyone wanting to collect for dried flowers will have a heyday right now!

Chocolate flowers are WILD here... yes, I said Chocolate flowers!

They really smell like chocolate. You can tell them from others similar in the
masses of yellow blooms, because the chocolate flower has a distinctive brown stripe
along the back of the petals.

These little yellow flowers can be mistaken, but with a trained eye,

and very shortly you'll easily see the differences.

We are hoping for a bountiful May season for our GateWay family and guests!
Western Heritage Weekend
Mother's Day
ACU, HSU, and MCMurry graduations

ALL are this second May weekend!
BTW... the Perini's Wine Summit last month was a huge success as well as Erinshire in the Gap!

Come visit in April or May and there will always be something to do!