A story about peaches in Fredericksburg…
When I grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, I always looked forward to the summer because in that area there are a lot of orchards.
In the summer you get fresh cherries, apricots, all kinds of vegetables, and especially peaches. The Palisade peaches, you bite in to them and the juice just pours down your arm. They are soooo good!
Well, we moved to Texas when I was about 14 and come summer time, I was ready for some peaches, but when we got home from the store and bit into one of them rock hard peaches, I was sick… I couldn’t even get a drop of juice to come out and it was not sweet at all. So I forgot about peaches for a while.
Then about 3 years ago I heard some people talking about Fredericksburg and about the beer, the food shopping and how good the peaches are. I really didn’t think that they were realy going to be that good but I thought we will give it a try and check out the down town area while were there. My wife is all about shopping and good food so she was all in.
The drive was nice and we drove through a town called Johnson City and found out that its were the president LBJ is from.
Just before you get into Frederickburg, you see a metal bull sitting out in the front of someone’s land, with a few other artistic pieces. That marks about the beginning of the fruit stands and let me tell ya, the peaches are dynamite! When you bite into one of them gems, juice will run down your arm and they are sweet and delicious. I think they were just as good as Palisade peaches, if not better, and many believe that Palisade have the best tasting peaches in the world.
When we went to downtown Fredericksburg and walked around and saw all the history, the food, and the relaxed atmosphere, I think that was the best part!
That’s saying a lot cause I loooooove peaches in Fredericksburg!