Back-to-school prep this year includes steps for sanitizing supplies. Photo from Metro Creative
Backpacks are useful tools for students and adults alike. From hiking supplies to school books to sports equipment, backpacks can store just about anything. As veritable workhorses, they’re bound to get dirty and can benefit from periodic cleaning.
Boldly Coral geraniums is making its debut in 2022. Here it is a mixed partnership with Diamond Snow euphorbia, Superbells Watermelon Punch calibrachoa, Color Coded Orange You Awesome echinacea and Illusion Emerald Lace ornamental sweet potato.
Boldly Coral geraniums and Superbena Whiteout verbena make a stunning complementary partnership.
This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail has inserted his proboscis or drinking straw into the flower of the Boldly Coral geranium. Photos by Norman Winter
The Garden Guy is ‘Boldly’ going into August with geraniums blazing. I could also say I am going into August with ‘Boldly geraniums blazing. It wasn’t too long ago that August and Geraniums in the South would have been the definition of a garden oxymoron. Boldly geraniums have changed all of that.
My journey last week took me to a reunion of friends who shared a journey in an Infantry Rifle Company 54 years ago in Vietnam. The only thing better than a friend is an old friend.
Above, an Hermanos lunch special, which included a beef filled enchilada topped with melted cheese, a chalupa, rice, refried beans and a drink for just $9. Below, Hermanos's migas plate. Daily Record photos by Lance Winter & Nick Castillo
Something’s going on in Martindale.
Roughouse Brewing will host a “Farmers’ Fair” with Farmhouse Delivery on Saturday, August 28. Photo courtesy of Roughouse Brewing
Roughhouse Brewing is set to host a “Farmers’ Fair” with Farmhouse Delivery, an online farmers market serving the Central Texas area including San Marcos, and a few of the brand’s favorite Texas pa
Jason Giulietti
Workforce is the number one factor for a relocating or expanding company, and the continued economic growth of our region is primarily dependent on how well we are preparing our future workforce th
M. Ray Perryman
The US Census Bureau continues to release results of the 2020 Census.
El Indio, oil painting by Adriana Ibarra. Submitted Photo
A previous outdoor installation of Martian Chronicles in Kissing Alley by Christopher Paul Cardoza. Submitted photo
A diverse mix of faces and places is represented in a new community art show featuring 113 works from 65 different area artists. The pieces are on display now through Sept. 25 throughout the first and second floor galleries of the Price Center.
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is just one of several species of butterflies that will visit the Augusta Lavender heliotrope.
The treasured Pipevine Swallowtail has found the Augusta Lavender heliotrope to be just perfect.
Augusta Lavender heliotrope and Color Coded Orange You Awesome echinacea make a colorful combination. Photos by Norman Winter
If someone had told me that there was a heliotrope that could hang with a lantana over a long, hot and wet summer, I would have said sure when pigs fly. Well clear Runway One, because Augusta's Lavender is arriving for spring 2022.
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