Last year, our first full summer living here, we were out of town during Spring Ho! week. This year we stayed in town. It has been hotter than blue blazes all week. Today, that meant a most entertaining parade. As we sat in the shade of one of the downtown stores awaiting the start time to chime eleven on the Courthouse clock, I noticed a large of people had brought super-soaker water guns. As many of the parade vehicles came by those in the parage and on the sidelines traded water gun shots. Those that were dressed up, like the Grand Marshals, did not get dowsed. But those who wanted to get wet had no trouble achieving their goal.
Since 1972 Lampasas has hosted this festival the second week in July. A bit of the backstory on the name: the first settlers came to the area seeking the healing waters of the natural springs. Just as those traveling across seas to a new world shouted "Land, Ho!" when they came near the new continent, the first ones to spot one of the springs on the horizon shouted "Spring, Ho.!"
It was a great parade and you'll only see about half of the individual vehicles in the parade. I took my first photo at the front of the parade at 11:22 am. I look my last photo at 12:06.
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| Standing in honor of our flag is an automatic response to its arrival for this crowd. |
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| 3rd Cavalry Band from Ft. Hood. |
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| Some of our LHS cheerleaders |
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| More LHS Cheerleaders. |
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| LMS Cheerleaders. |
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Our Festival Court. They will spend the next 12 months participating
in events around town and in nearby towns. |
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| Additional festival court. |
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| Last Year's Festival Court participating in their last event. |
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| LHS Band |
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| LHS Flames |
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Luling's Watermelon Thump festival court. Luling is a good
2-hour drive from us. |
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| Copperas Cove is about 17 miles East of us. |
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Kingsland is about an hour away. This is their Aquaboom festival
royal court. |
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| One of my favorite participants in every parade in Texas. |
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Deleon has a Peach and Melon Festival. The folks drove about
an hour and a half to join us. |
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| More than Halfway to our annual Christmas on the Creek event. |
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| The Ben Hur Highland Lakes Chapter of Shriners from Austin. |
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| Big Boys and their Toys. |
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| More big boys, but still impressive toys. |
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| The Snow Queen Court is our winter festival event. |
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Shell and Shell Attorneys at law, biggest firm in the Hill Country.
This is only 1 of their 6 or 7 cars in the parade. |
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Boerne too is about 2 hours away. Their strong German roots are
evident. |
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| "But it looked good to Charlene in John Deere Green." |
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These kids have been working hard all week to raise money
at the festival by selling popcorn, candy, beverages, and
by operating the pull raft across the creek. |
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| Local pool employees having way too much fun. |
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| Yep, those are the employees too. |
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| Caught a big one. |
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| Yes, they do! |
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| Ft. Hood's mountain cavalry |
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| The mascot of a rider's club. |
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| 2nd riders club. |
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| And #3. A lot of people like to ride here. |
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