There is a fence all around it, with a coded gate. A sign next to it said it's a private property reserved to members of the Pure Austin Fitness, which is right next to it. I went inside and found out that only their members can get access to the gate, and I could maybe try through Estates On Quarry Lake Apartments on the other side of the lake. Being mischiefs that we are, we pulled in to gate, luckily someone was just coming out through the other side, so we snuck in. We walked behind the buildings down to the fence, and it was not fully closed, so we found a way to the trail. I even later got a code from a little girl walking her dog, just in case we needed to open the gate with the code on the way out.
I love these little adventures of ours! :)
It took us only twenty minutes to go around the lake, but we were already hungry. We had a late lunch at the Roaring Fork restaurant, which has a nice screened patio overlooking the lake. We got back just in time for mom's English class at the Wells Branch library.
Another item on today's agenda was to get some plants for the in-front of the house, and get closer to choosing a tree for the front yard. Early in the morning we picked up some 20 ornamental red kale and 18 yellow dragon-snaps at the Newtown Nursery, and I planted maybe a third of those in the evening. We also stopped at three other places to look at tree options. I am looking for something that is evergreen, but has leaves, not needles like pines, grows to medium height and width, is draught tolerant, and generally low maintenance. All those equalled to Mexican White Oak. The prices very greatly between container/tree sizes and nurseries. The least expensive one was Whittlesey Landscape Supplies on I35.
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