Water you waiting for? Try this sweet salad idea at your next cookout.
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Watermelon Wedge
Sun, 08/14/2022 - 5:00am
Sweet salad gets a summery makeover
Water you waiting for? Try this sweet salad idea at your next cookout.
Photo from Metro Creative
Sweet salad gets a summery makeover
The Hays County Master Gardeners Class of 2021 works the demonstration garden at Jacob’s Well in Wimberley.
Photo submitted by HCMGA
The Kyle Library Pollinator Garden is one of the Hays County Master Gardener Association demonstration gardens.
Photo submitted by HCMGA
With climate change affecting weather around the globe, including the heatwave we’re currently experiencing in the Hill Country, more and more people have taken an interest in plants.
The Truffula Pink Gomphrena has only been out for three years and has proven to be a real champion for Eastern Tiger Swallowtails and will bloom until frost.
Photos by Norman Winter
Today, I am here to say let’s give up the Dog Days and create a celebration of ‘The Tiger Days of Summer’. I am, however, not talking LSU, Auburn or Clemson starting football workouts. I am however touting states like Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia coming together for the one thing they have in common, and that is they have all chosen the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail as their state butterfly.
Carl Finch on his accordion, bringing the unexpected element of polka on stage.
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Channeling the wildness of the unpredictable: Brave Combo members Carl Finch, Lyle Atkinson, Danny O’Brien, Alan Emert and Robert Hokamp. Brave Combo will play a benefit concert for the San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter on Aug. 19.
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Brave Combo’s music can be described as wild. The Denton-based quintet began 30 years ago as a band built around polka music, even though none of the five members grew up around it. Polka then opened a door to a myriad of traditional rhythms, including salsa, conjunto, zydeco, ska and punk.
Above, a large Valentino's pizza with half Chicken Bacon Ranch and half Supreme. Daily Record photos by Nick Castillo & Lance Winter
A downtown staple has reopened with a fresh take on a San Marcos classic.
M. Ray Perryman
Recent data indicates that the Texas economy continues to generate jobs at a torrid pace. In June, the state added 82,000 positions, pushing the year-over-year gain to 778,700.
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San Marcos Premium Outlets is currently holding its back-to-school denim drive, “Do Good with Denim” in an effort to support sustainability and positively impact the community through Aug. 22. This promotion is in collaboration with the Austin Habitat for Humanity ReStore, a nonprofit home improvement store and donation center.
Tyler Askins, who plays Hunk and the Scarecrow, basks in the spotlight during rehearsals for the Broke Thespians Theatre Company’s production of The Wizard of Oz. Photo by Candice Vincent
Hundreds of San Marcans turned out for the outdoor musical in Plaza Park. Photo by Celeste Cook
The entire Broke Thespians cast for The Wizard of Oz. Photo by Candice Vincent
In Kansas once more, from left to right: Katie Henderson, as Aunt Em; Tommie Jackson as Uncle Henry; Sophia Bibb as Dorothy Gayle; Rmichael Clinkscales as Hickory; Tyler Askins as Hunk; and Nate Nelson as Zeke. Photo by Mitzi Cinda
Fletcher Fleming as a member of the Lollipop Guild. Photo by Mitzi Cinda
Lately it seems San Marcos is experiencing a comforting cultural resurgence. Some of our well-loved local treasures have made their return. Sundance Records, for example, recently made a comeback as Sundance Record Lagoon. Then on Wednesday, Valentino’s Pizza reopened.
The Garden Guy designed this container using Supertunia Mini Vista Scarlet petunia, Superbells Grape Punch calibrachoa, White Knight lobularia or sweet alyssum and Goldilocks creeping Jenny. Photos by Norman Winter
In this container Supertunia Mini Vista Scarlet was partnered in an analogous color scheme or colors next to each other on a color wheel by combining with Superbells Dreamsicle calibrachoa, White Knight sweet alyssum and Goldilocks creeping Jenny.
Supertunia Mini Vista Scarlet petunia makes its debut in 2023. Here it is dazzling in Mississippi State University’s Trial Garden at the Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station in Crystal Springs Mississippi. Photo courtesy of Mississippi State University
Supertunia Mini Vista Scarlet petunia will quickly become the one to which all other red petunias will be compared. Though it is making its debut in 2023, the tsunami created from the beauty shown in 2022 trials is already causing market jitters. Will there be enough next spring? We can only hope.
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It has been a tad warmish lately.
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