The LBJ Ranch

Ginger and Ron wanted me to see the LBJ Ranch, so we drove for two hours or so, west of Austin out to the ranch. We stopped at Enchanted Rock along the way, and I showed you that a day or so ago. The ranch is beautiful - it is in what is known as "The Texas Hill Country." What was striking is how modest Lyndon B. Johnson's home was. It was not a mansion at all, but a very cozy home which had been in his family for years. The fields are grasses and these beautiful Live Oak trees here lining the driveway. Small wild deer and a large heard of prize cattle are everywhere. And this is the cemetery where he and Lady Bird Johnson are buried. Their stones are the larger ones, right over the center of this wrought iron gate.