The twice yearly Junk-o-Rama over at Round Top, Texas was held this past week, a veritable smorgasbord of junk, antiques, cast-offs, crafts, and all kinds of craziness stretching for 15 miles along Highway 237 from La Bahia all the way to Warrenton, Texas.
For the rest of the year this area is my favorite motorcycle ride route for some beautiful scenery, but in the spring and fall, this stretch of road comes alive with every kind of "anteek" you can imagine!
Texas weather is as unpredictable as usual, but this day was like early springtime all over again.
After the record breaking heat of the summer, we have had cool temperatures and rains, coaxing the wildflowers back into bloom and the roadsides are awash in coreopsis and gomphrena, along with the goatweed and ragweed.
Like the Hill Country, the crepe myrtles are blooming again, even my own Natchez Crepe Myrtle, which could not muster even one bloom all summer, is suddenly blooming like a champ!
As you can see from the pictures, anything goes!! The outfit of the day is certainly "Texas Chic" complete with petticoat, boots and a t-shirt advertising the bustling metropolis of Warrenton, Texas, population about 5 people on a busy day! But they do have a service station and a great bar with a terrific band! And don't forget your pink cowgirl hat and blinged out guitar!
I saw so many carnival rides like used to be out in front of all the grocery stores. There's good old Donald Duck offering a ride for a nickel. You can have him for the princely sum of $450!!
A vintage christmas wreath will only set you back $275..it's all ready to hang and oh, so shabby chic! The great weather we are having would be a great way to spend some time in the cool vintage cabana rocker, complete with it's own wet bar under the seat. A very nice patio piece!
But please, don't wear the chickens as hats!! Apparently that's become such a problem that it requires a sign!! Words to live by!!
And my favorite sight of the day.....a head lamp, followed closely by a leg lamp. Look closely at the ladies' head. It is actually a lamp. Oh that violet rinse is to die for!! And now, they had two versions of the legs...one was a lamp, surely you saw that in that Christmas movie, but the other version went ahead and encompassed the whole lower torso right on up to the waist, making a very functional table. How very, um, creative. And please don't miss the stripper boots on that model with the 4 inch platforms. Just want you to get the whole effect! It was quite a novel(ty) use of cast off mannequins. FYI, it was not an equal opportunity mannequin booth either, I looked. No MANnequins were being fashioned into lamps or tables, if you know what I mean.
The odds of finding really strange things (and people) to look at is 100%. It a great time and I never miss it and I'm never disappointed!!
It's a trip down memory lane, fantasy lane, strangeland lane and I can't wait to go again!
Song for today....Fireflies by Owl City
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