Our trip to the Lavendar Festival

Saturday morning, June 12, 2010

We had heard that a Lavendar Festival was to be held in Blanco, Texas. That is only an hour's drive from our home and we have always enjoyed festivals so we got up early and headed out. It was an easy drive on route 281 all the way from San Antonio.

Tents were set up all around the courthouse square in Blanco, and of course everything had a lavendar color scheme. There were many, many things featuring lavendar: cakes of homemade soap, lavendar plants, cookbooks featuring recipes using lavendar, jelly with lavendar in it. If you have ever been to a strawberry festival, sauerkraut festival, etc., you will get the idea.

We brought home three cakes of the homemade soaps and they really perfumed the car. We also bought a jar of lavendar jelly and one of peach-lavendar jam. I can hardly wait to taste them.

We could have gotten a map there and toured a nearby lavendar farm, but the day was getting very hot and we decided to go again next year and do that. It is an annual event held on the second weekend in June.

As with all festivals, there were many booths set up that sold things that weren't lavendar-related. One had wooden bowls made from tree roots. They were beautiful and no two were alike. A little pricy, but very interesting to see and I'm sure a lot of work went into making them.

We had lunch at a nearby Mexican restaurant before heading back to San Antonio. It was a small diner-type restaurant and quite busy. The food was delicious and we enjoyed homemade lemonade with our meal.

This southwest Texas heat was getting to us, so we were glad to get home to our air conditioning, but we definitely plan to go again next year. Below is some advertising that was put out about the festival.

The 6th Annual
Blanco Lavender Festival
June 11th — 13th, 2010
Free Tours of Local Lavender Farms


Visit beautiful Blanco in the heart of the Texas Hill Country for the sixth annual Blanco Lavender Festival. A Lavender Market will be held on the grounds of the Old Blanco County Courthouse featuring arts and crafts and local lavender products. Tour many of the local lavender farms where you will experience the beauty of lavender in the fields and the unique vision of each farmer.