Brown County - Day 2

On day two we did some shopping in the morning, had lunch, then

went to check on the bear, which had a huge crack down the front that I never noticed the day before.  I suppose that could represent honey dripping from his mouth!

Then we took off in the countryside.  I wanted to go to this very huge, fun garden center that we discovered a few years ago.

And of course, we had to detour and drive through the covered bridge in Bean Blossom.

And we found this cross again.  It's been there a few years.

We've nailed a few prayers to it in the past.  And as we drove by, we decided to turn around,

go back, and nail a few prayers to it again.  For my obvious health reasons, and a couple of family members that could use a prayer too.

The next day I FELT GREAT!  Maybe "someone" is listening to me!

And here is the garden center.  It is also a tea room.

They have several out buildings.

We bought a holly bush and a bronze fennel plant.

I went inside to use the restroom, and they sent me upstairs.  There are several rooms of stuff for sale and all these years I never knew it!

I thought these roosters were cute,

and this wreath,

and these chickens.

And I loved the detail on this fireplace.

There is a grinding stone stuck into the outside of it.

And check out this hollowed out area.  I imagine a statue used to be inside it.  It kind of reminded me of Italy.  They have areas like this all over their buildings with Mother Mary tucked inside.

Another place we went, which turned out really sad is a place called Stone head.  If you click here and go to the bottom picture of the post, you can see what it's supposed to look like.  Apparently, some one vandalized it last year, and took the head.  It's been there since 1851.  All of those years.....

So a stone carver made a memorial to it.

This house sits in front of it and one year we went on a garden tour at this house.  The sign says "The Spirit of Stone Head lives!   Stone Head was a road marker back in the 1850's.

We drove along more of the country side and found this big guy!  I named him Hoss!

He was right outside of Story, Indiana.

I wanted to go back to see the garden they had there.

They kind of let it go.

Beyond the garden was this big barn.  And we noticed it was open with lights on.

So we walked out and peeked in.  We found out later they were going to be setting up for a wedding.

And that's it for Story!

The restaurant, bar, and lodging are all in the same building!

Don't blink or you'll miss it!

So we headed back to Nashville.

There's Hoss again!  He's like..."why you keep taking my picture?"

We got back to Nashville and My Shug took me to some fine dining!

Yep...that be a gas station and we are sitting outside on a curb-like structure waiting on a pizza.

As we waited I thought we should take a little walk.  We found this garage that the people must have just decided to paint!

On the other side of the garage is an antique store.  I thought the way they used the headboards was clever.

We took the pizza back to our room, opened a bottle of wine, and had a great evening.

Cindy