Empire Ranch Roundup

Unfortunately, I forgot to include this picture, so I have to add it. Additions on this blog end up at the beginning of the story - yeah - it is weird. Anyway, there is a little boy under that hat! It was too cute to skip. Enjoy the tour!

Oh, what a beautiful morning to be heading to Empire Ranch! Two beautiful percherons took us to the site of the festival. They had a team of mules for the other wagon. We listened to a talk by Tim Vail, the great-grandson of the man (Walter Vail) who developed Empire Ranch in the 1800's. He started with 160 acres. There were too many talks to listen to all of them, so we had to make choices and we did enjoy our day! This festival is once a year and certainly worthwhile!

We were treated to Mariachi and some western music.

Miniature horse!

We saw such beautiful horses and many people in period clothing.