Cantaloupe is good for eating and for attracting butterflies at the EmilyAnn Butterfly Festival April 23. Wimberley View photo by Dalton Sweat
EmilyAnn Theatre in Wimberley will host its annual Butterfly Festival on April 23, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Baby birds and deer fawns are most often picked up by well-meaning citizens.
Photo from Metro Creative
What birds are you most likely to see in our neck of the woods?
Graphic from the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment
The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment will hold its annual Spring Lake Earth Day Festival Saturday, April 23 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The festival, which will be held at the headwaters of the San Marcos River, is a free, family-friendly event that allows the community to join together to celebrate the earth.
Roughhouse Brewing’s latest cave beer, Two & One is a blend of one- and two-year cave ales. Photo submitted by Naz Pasturnak
Roughhouse Brewing will reveal its third installment in its Underground Series with Wild and Free: a Kite Festival and Cave Beer Release Saturday, April 23, from 12 - 9 p.m., in collaboration with Synergy in Sound.
Tomball VFW Post 2427 with VFW friends from all over the State.. Photos submitted by Bernadette Adams
The combined VFW Motorcycle Riders Group Units, no. 32 of Geronimo and no. 30 of Helotes, met up Friday, April 8, in Seguin.
On Friday, April 8, Dave and Bernie Adams rode their trike motorcycle as part of the State VFW Motorcycle Riders Group Spring Meeting in Tomball. The Adams are part of the VFW Unit 32 Riders Group from Geronimo and met up with VFW Unit 30 from Helotes. The groups met up in Seguin, from where they continued their journey to Tomball. There, they met with the rest of the Texas state riding groups for a 200-mile ride through Houston and Bryan. On Sunday, all groups gathered for their meeting before Units 32 and 30 returned home.
Tapestry Co-Founder Acia Gray will join interdisciplinary artist Zell Miller III and New Yorkbased Bessie Award winner Nicholas Van Young for “All The Notes Are Already Here” at the Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre, April 21 - 24, with performances 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Join the mermaids of Mermaid Society SMTX for this year’s Earth Day festivities.
Mer-fetti: Ecologically-safe confetti made from flower petals are an alternative to traditional confetti.
In celebration of Earth Day, arts and crafts will be made from recycled materials. Photo from Mermaid Society SMTX
Every year on April 22, people work together to make small-yet-significant improvements to our local environments. These efforts, combined with education about stewardship and conservation, add up to make a lasting impact on the world around us.
Cayla Primous and Morgan Montgomery star in ‘Seussical.’ Photo by Lauren Jurgemeyer
Texas State’s Department of Theatre and Dance presents “Seussical,” by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty on April 19-24 in the Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre.
Persian Shield, a tropical foliage plant from Burma looks quite at home in partnership with the Ice Cream Blue Java banana.
‘This is the Life’ is a recipe that features Truffula Pink gomphrena, Supertunia Mini Vista Pink Star, and Plum Dandy alternanthera along with Persian Shield.
Persian Shield’s colors form a picturesque combination with lime green or chartreuse colored foliage. Photos by Norman Winter
Recently I stumbled across a plant recipe called ‘This is the Life.’ Not only was it a collection of some of my favorite plants, but was like a wake-up call to an old favorite, the Persian Shield. Known botanically as Strobilanthes dyerianus, it is native to Myanmar and has 8-inchlong leaves that are iridescent in shades of purple, lilac and pink with purplemaroon on the undersides. If those colors aren’t awesome enough, the foliage looks as though it has a light coat of silver electroplated to the leaf.
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