A Day in Fairhope

We spent the day in Fairhope today. It's just so pretty in town. The street scapes are gorgeous this year! I don't remember the stargazers in years' past.

We started with a casual lunch in one of the little sandwich shops and moved on to the book stores. The hub is in search of a specific history book (he's prepping for his great American novel, did I tell you?). I was looking for some Gladys Taber books after everyone has been suggesting them. In fact, I have ordered several off Amazon but no harm in asking around. The used book store had her Cocker Spaniel book, which I wasn't interested in. They looked for another they thought they still had but couldn't locate it. (I couldn't see any rhyme or reason as to how they had everything shelved or stacked!). Guess I'll just have to wait until my order comes in the mail. I'm dying to start my summer reading. I need to learn how to sit back and relax. I'm hoping one of her stories will do the trick. I'm a Rosamunde Pilcher fan but have already read all her goodies. Anyhow, the hub was able to find a couple books, of course, and I found some stationery, of course. We both were fascinated with the reprint of the old Sears & Roebuck catalog from 1908, what fun to sit and skim through this giant!


We stopped off at the sweet shop and I had an iced latte and the men had these huge dishes of Bluebell ice cream! Look at the size of that cup! Lordy. We then went down the street to Mobile Bay and looked over the beautiful waters. A short drive later, we ended up at Weeks Bay and then hooked back around to our neck of the woods.

One more pit stop was the local nursery where I had my eye on a couple of lily pads for the reserve. I had asked the biologist yesterday if it was okay to introduce such a thing to the reserve and he gave the thumb's up. Well, those things aren't cheap! Man! So, froggies will have to enjoy the one and only pad in the place. I picked out the Jack Wood because I love the fuchsia, of course. We'll see how well it does in a natural habitat. You can barely see it at the bottom of the picture. I'll keep records of it's growth (or lack thereof) through my blog, like I do everything else. This aquatic planting is all new to me so we'll see. Also picked up a bird feeder and some seed. Can't wait to see what birds I can attract!

The hub had his eye on some binoculars. Guess what he got for an early Father's Day gift? Uh huh. You got it. hehe. He said he was going to use them for bird watching--wink wink--yea maybe the blond variety going by in boats! ha. He and the kid got a kick out of that. Ew, after I took this picture, I noticed how dusty they were. Did they sell us the floor model? How wude. Guess it doesn't really make a difference now does it?

Everyone is off in their little corners doing whatever. Think I may just mosey on out to the front and watch the boats go by.