EXPLORING NATURE: SUET
Sun, 09/20/2020 - 12:00am
If you have never hung up a suet block for your bird friends, let me encourage you to do so.
If you have never hung up a suet block for your bird friends, let me encourage you to do so.
Above, a queen feeding on Mexican Flame Vine. Below, consider partnering Flame Vine with purple flowers for the maximum depth of color. Photos by Norman Winter
When you hear names like Mexican Flame or Orange Glow, their titles do a good job in telling you this is a bold flower riveting in color. Considering it is a vine that attracts hummingbirds and butterflies and packs a fiery orange, it’s no wonder it’s an awardwinning plant.
It’s always nice to read that even with a reduction of recycled materials in the commercial sector due to the virus, new recycling facilities are coming on line. These are to handle more products from back-of-house commercial and industrial settings. From a recent Resource Recycling newsletter, we learn of such a new 64,000-square-foot facility in Green Bay, Wis.
Below, a full meal of Beef Bulgogi, kimchi, ramyun, donkatsu and fried dumplings from K-Bop. Daily Record photo by Celeste Holliser
Bon Gu and his wife opened their cozy Korean restaurant, K-Bop, on Feb. 28, 2020.
Jason Giulietti
Texas State University, an emerging research institution, is our region’s most crucial economic development asset, partner and catalyst for economic growth.
Prior to COVID-19, the US was in the midst of a 10+ year expansion. While not perfect, the basic structure of the economy was basically sound.
For the past couple of weeks, we addressed how the recycling programs were being affected by the virus in three different sized cities: New York, our Austin, and Fort Collins, Co. The information was gathered from an article in the Resource Recycling newsletter.
I often hear in business circles the somewhat overused modern sayings: “hope is not a plan” and “hope is not a strategy.” Utterance of the word “hope” in a planning discussion or a report to investors or employees will at best result in an unenthusiastic response from the audience, and at worst an admonishment that the speaker does not have a proper operational plan. It makes sense. None of the stakeholders in a business – neither investors nor employees – want to hear from the CEO that the plan for dealing with a set back in business is hope. Everyone wants a well thought out operational plan.
Q.How can writers of poetry and short stories get their work published? Do I need to copyright my work before I try to publish it?
Entryway is flanked by a collection of attractive but sustainable plants and decorative grasses. Photos provided by Sharon Lockett of the Spring Lake Garden Club.
September is still summertime in Central Texas, with yards stressed by severe heat and spare moisture, including Stage 1 Drought Restrictions limiting lawn watering to one day each week, whether by hose and sprinkler or automatic irrigation system. Fortunately, hand watering and soaker hoses or drip irrigation is not restricted, and homeowners who want to maximize water use (and minimize cost) know that providing water early in the morning is the most efficient way to keep plants healthy until cooler weather arrives. September’s Yard of the Month, chosen by Spring Lake Garden Club, shows the wisdom of adding one more item to summertime plant care: plenty of mulch. In fact, the original mulch coverage has already been replenished with a new supply.
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