Moving on to Dallas

We're off tomorrow to Dallas with an overnight in scenic Little Rock. We still haven't figured out how to upload photos from the iPad to blog but are working on it.We've had a great time in Kentucky. Yesterday we went to Woodford Reserve-- a small distillery making fine Bourbon. A beautiful Setting with olD limestone buildings set beside a meandering river. Everything is blooming in Louisville--trees out,azaleas,tulips,wisteria-- very strange but really beautiful. The dogwoods usually bloom at Derby (beginning of May) but this year have been out for about two weeks already.So, by 11 AM we were happily swigging Woodford Reserve and planning yet another lavish lunch. We would post photos of ourselves but we have eaten so much at farewell lunches and dinners and on the road that our images no longer fit on the computer screen. After lunch we drove to the Blue Grass horse farm country near Lexington( insert more musings on the glories of spring in the Heartland). Our brother-in-law Michael knows the owner of Three Chimney Farms--a stud farm and they raise the ensuing foals to yearlings and then sell them at the big auctions. A complicated,risky,capital intensive and really interesting business.Did I mention it is Spring? Well that is breeding season in horse land and we were at a stud farm. The images wiLl not depart me soon. They steered me gently to the car and drove us to the brood mare section for restorative therapy. We got to see,pet and carry on over foals as young as two days old-- all legs and head and full of beans. As we drove out of the gate we watched 15 or 20 yearlings as they galloped as a herd across an impossibly green paddock. A great afternoon. Well,that's it for now. More from Dallas and then on to the border!