An afternoon in the city!

My friend Holly and I decided to bum around Oklahoma City today . . we headed to the Stockyard district using my trusty iPhone's GPS maps (snort . . ) and got distracted by the fascinating old Farmers Market area.

We happened upon a gorgeous old building that displayed the faint painted letters "FARMERS PUBLIC MARKET" and by the signage around it, hoped it contained antiques. (not true, huge sigh) . . but being the nosy ol' broads we are. We marched in and treated ourselves to a self tour of an amazing building.

People were carrying wedding items in by the armload, (they were getting ready for a bridal show) so we just boldly blended in and walked around like we knew what we were doing!!

We met the handyman upstairs who said we were welcome to nose around . . the only ones he that aren't welcome are the homeless (I thought he said "holiness" . . at which I turned to Holly and said . . "now what does he have against the holiness?" . . when she got done giggling, she said, "No, he said as long as we're not HOMELESS" LOL


He told us the owner has put over a half a million dollars restoring the building and they still haven't hardly scratched the surface. It says booked for events for almost a year in advance. I wish I would have taken more pics of the building inside and out. But all I had with me was a little Kodak digital camera . . why I left for a road trip without my big camera . . who knows??


There are the most amazing hand painted murals everywhere. The entry is painted a most wonderful deep tomato red . . truly an amazing building. I can't wait to revisit and watch the remodeling progress. It does the heart good to see people appreciate and bring back to life historic buildings. If you get a chance, wander in, they don't mind . . it's on the way to the stockyards and is truly a feast for the eyes.