M. Ray Perryman
The Economist: Invasion!
Wed, 03/02/2022 - 6:53pm
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is ongoing, and it is impossible to know at this point how it will play out in terms of duration or magnitude.
M. Ray Perryman
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is ongoing, and it is impossible to know at this point how it will play out in terms of duration or magnitude.
Photo from Metro Creative
My journey this week took me to a memory from long ago when I experienced a faith challenge.
Photo by Metro Graphics
We have a winner! Suzanne H. Leighton, of San Marcos, has submitted the winning poem in my poetry contest. As you may recall, the only requisites were the poem should be reasonably short, about birds and/or nature and should rhyme. I had a hard time choosing a winner from all the excellent submissions.
laissez les bon temps rouler with homemade gumbo. Photo from Metro Creative
Mardi Gras is a period of revelry that takes place on the Tuesday prior to the start of the Christian season of Lent. Mardi Gras, French for “Fat Tuesday,” is celebrated in various regions of the world, but perhaps nowhere are celebrations as festive as in New Orleans, where the French-Creole culture mingles with the parades, brass bands, tossed beads, and all around good fun and great food.
Rockin' Playin' the Blues salvia is the quintessential cottage garden flower, combined here with Goldsturm rudbeckia, pink gaura and scaevola.
This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail looks ever so picturesque among the tall spires of Rockin' Playin' the Blues salvia.
Hummingbirds gracefully approach the blue blooms of Rockin' Playin' the Blues salvia. Photos by Norman Winter
There is not a gardener I meet who doesn’t crave plants that are all about blooms, birds and butterflies. Shoot add bees to it and you would have a surefire award winner. The Dallas Arboretum has one of the superior plant trials in the country and they gave the award for most Pollinator Friendly Perennial to Rockin’ Playin’ the Blues salvia.
Photo submitted by Texas State University’s Division of Dance
Texas State University’s Division of Dance presents STREAM in Motion 7.0 in the Harrison Performing Arts Center on Feb. 28 and March 1 at 9 a.m.
View of the Tropic of Capricorn, acrylic paint on canvas, by Bill Hutson, is currently on display at the Calaboose Museum.
Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series of features celebrating the life and artwork of San Marcos-born artist Bill Hutson.
Above, KAsian Garden's general tso chicken served with fried rice and an egg roll. Below, KAsian Garden's kung pao chicken served with vegetables and peanuts with a side of fried rice and an egg roll. Daily Record photos by Nick Castillo & Lance Winter
Among the most interesting food combinations, KAsian Garden possesses one of the most unique in San Marcos.
M. Ray Perryman
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