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Cajun Bayou Food
We ate at the Cajun Bayou restaurant in Flint TX off of 155.
It’s good guys you got to try this place out. They have a band playing tonight to kick off 4th of July weekend.
Considering it is pouring down rain this is a pretty popular restaurant.
Highly recommended for those nights when you want good Cajun Food.
The Purple Pig in Flint TX is one of my favorite bar-bq restaurants in the Tyler area.
What I usually get here is their chopped beef barbecue sandwich. My brother gets their pulled pork sandwich.
They have a large variety of sides and I like their barbeque rice and mac n cheese.
They have a very good weekend music venue outside by the Indian teepee.
It is definitely a restaurant in Tyler worth checking out.
There is a rose garden in Tyler, TX that has been a part of the history of this cities making. Since 1952 this municipal rose garden as served as a tourist attraction that brings in most of the business Tyler has gotten over the years, excluding oil.
Tyler Texas Rose Garden
Each year there is a festival, a queen crowned, duchesses chosen and tourists from far and wide bringing with them the business this town prepares for every year. Hotels are sold out, the roads are clogged and the restaurants are full every evening. What a paradise for money making and beauty seeking.
But here is my concern. Why is the garden so special? Roses are pretty, I like them, but I’ve seen prettier ones. I’ve walked through the garden and I’m not impressed. It’s not even the roses that are the problem. Its the landscape. If my artistic eye serves me right I think the design could be more appealing than we’re letting it. The fountains are typical and 60’s. The lay out doesn’t say anything new and there are no surprises. Maybe if I looked from a bird’s eye view there would be something intended to be eye-catching… but I’m not a bird and neither is anyone else paying money to see it.
Where is the vibrant life of color and excitement a garden is supposed to engulf me with? My favorite gardens draw me in, invite me to look close, and adventure my way through. But this makes me feel like I’m still in the office and have not escaped. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? 
If this legend of the Rose Garden is to continue then can we re-focus? I’m not ungrateful to the people who designed and made the garden and tradition to begin with, but I think its time to either move on or make over.
