DREAMSVILLE

Karen an i are pinching ourselves.  Is this for real?  Saturdays are brimming with good times.  We enjoy downtown Frederick through our customers' eyes and our first spring tours of the 2013 season are cherished.  Tour goers included a young man, he was a new Frederick resident and his mother from New Jersey.  Another tour group of three included two girlfriends from Silver Spring and Germantown while one girlfriend invited her brother from Mt. Airy to come along.  Also, a group of three girlfriends from New Market with the vitality of toddlers joined the Pearls tour.  Later Karen and i learned that all three were grandmothers!

As mentioned our most recent tour with the jazziest grandmothers ever, all clad in capris and cool oversized sunglassess took off with us at lightening speed from the Visitor Center toward Caroll Creek.  As we reached the Community Bridge headed toward Market Street, swooping swallows circled overhead.  Perhaps this was a sign of more surprises to come.  While strolling on Caroll Creek we saw the lily pads sprinkled with intensely colored purple, pink and white water lilies.  Full sun and a blue cloudless sky made a brilliant appearance.  Even the ducks made noisy show-off landings on the Monet waterscape.  Laughing at the duck dives, we headed north on Market Street stopping to fill goodie bags with Pearl treats at Zoe's  Chocolate and En Masse Flower Market.  We cooled off at the site of the Ginko tree surrounded by lush gardens and later the Viniferous wine shop. 

Meandering up Market Street one of our customer's secret desires was shared with the tour group.  With twinkling eyes and rapid hand drawn movements from invisible holsters, she said, "I always wanted an all guns blazing tattoo in just the right spot"....or words amounting to the same meaning, well you get the picture. We just do not know what happenings the Pearls of Frederick Walking Tour may inspire.

 So reserve your spot soon, see you there, with or without tatts!