The Blanco Lavender Festival

Today, as we traveled back from Austin, we stopped in Blanco. Their annual Lavender Festival was underway. The town square was full of artists and the streets were full of people! So we stopped and started by visiting our friends Jan and Jon Brieger, owners of Breiger Pottery. We have know them since way back in the 70's when they used to live in San Marcos and we all did the Texas States Arts and Crafts Show.
Some years ago, they moved to Blanco with their daughter, Tasha, and opened a pottery shop right on the street that surrounds the square. So, today, when we went to the shop, we found that they have purchased the store next door and opened a restaurant there. Very cute!



http://www.briegerpottery.com/Brieger_Pottery_site/Home.html

The restaurant is apparently a big hit. Jan was busy making cookies this morning . Jon was buy too, but I'm not sure what he was creating.

Plus we learned that their daughter, Tasha, is now the owned of Hill Country Lavender

 http://www.hillcountrylavender.com/

And we found out that Jan is the founder of this Lavender Festival and still juries the show along with another person! We walked through and met up with fellow metal artist, Bob Tomson.

http://www.naturalmetalsstudio.com/about.html

And we saw David Busch
http://www.raindancewatercolors.com/

All in all, a nice visit!