The minute we stepped through the door, we knew something was seriously out of whack. We had just arrived at the Wimberley Cafe for Saturday breakfast, and it was wall-to-wall people. That normally only happens on the first Saturday of each month, due to hoards of visitors hitting town for Market Day, but this was not the first Saturday. As my eyes scanned back and forth across the room, looking for an empty table, they landed on something so out of place that I just couldn't grasp the implications for a moment. What was so jarring? The sight of Miss Bobbie, sitting alone at a small table, out in the middle of a brightly lit room full of noisy people, with a deer-in-the-headlights stare upon her face. Why wasn't she in her special, softly lit and cozy booth over at Cypress Creek Cafe? The one with the window ledge that she decorates for all the holidays, and where she has been sitting, every single morning, for as long as we have been coming to Wimberley!
The answer to that question became all too clear once we stepped back outside, and saw the sign that was tacked to the front of CCC. This cafe and live music venue (and host of our annual jazz festival), that has been the center of the community for the last 27 years, is now up for grabs. Its owner has decided it's time to move on, and everyone in town is wondering "Now what?" According to our local newspaper, The Wimberley View, "there has been varied interest, ranging from a bakery to a microbrewery to another restaurant...As for the music festivals...their fate lies in the hands of the new owner(s)." 'Tis the end of an era.
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