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In Texas homes, you’re just as likely to have a cedar tree cut from the pasture, a barbed-wire tree and wreath, or an old cowboy boot as a table centerpiece, rather than the more traditional forms of Christmas decoration. Cactus pads strung together with rope and red ribbon are a fine garland if hung well-away from kids and pets.
Mourning doves? — You’ll have to look a long time to find a quarry that’s more fun to hunt. Or more frustrating. Me, I’ve been chasing doves for more than 60 years now and I still haven’t figured them out. Sure — I know they enjoy a dead mesquite limb like I do my favorite La-Z- Boy.
Since 1967, the sleepy communities around Warrenton, Round Top, Carmine and Burton have sprung to life for the bi-annual Antiques Week, filling giant tents, pavilions, and roadside parks with all sorts of antiques, apparel, arts and crafts, collectibles, fine art, furnishings, jewelry, yard art, and thingamabobs.
The temperature hovers around a brisk 40 degrees on an overcast March afternoon. But Pamela Arnosky, who farms full time with her family on their Blanco County land, pays no mind. She's got buckets of fresh ranunculus to grade and band into bunches.
Clad in a heavy wool sweater, corduroy jeans, and sturdy gloves, Pamela works at a towel-covered table in an open-air shed.
For two decades, Bob Salter rode the airwaves as a high-flying San Antonio TV news anchorman. Now the articulate and handsome 61-year-old, who looks as if he's still up to the task of delivering the news with ease, flies high to deliver people in distress to life-saving places.
Hill Country residents love the region's vastness and rugged beauty, and many opt to live in rural areas.
For two dog-gone great days each April, the burgeoning (and at times, barking) burg of Buda finds itself amazingly ankle-deep in determined dashing dachshunds, all itching to win one of Texas' most unique (and beloved) canine competitions – the annual Buda Wiener Dog Races. Marking the 18th consecutive running, this year's furry field featuring some of the finest (and fleetest) low-slung thoroughbreds from kennels across the country will undoubtedly prove once again to be the must see, tail-w ...
Camp Eagle is on the tipping edge of the far western Hill Country, encompassing rugged terrain with sheer limestone cliffs and deep gorges and traversed by the pristine Nueces River.
Located at 6424 Hackberry Road, off Hwy 41 in Real county, near the Edwards county line, its diverse 1,400 acres offer a wide range of outdoor recreation designed to accommodate visitors of all ages, with all levels of skill sets.
When Texans want relaxing fun in the sun they head for the Coastal Bend of Aransas Pass, Mustang Island, North Padre Island, Port Aransas, and Rockport. Especially Port A and Rockport.
Just say the name "Port A" and watch their eyes light up. Everyone who's ever been there can't wait to tell you a story about the place.
You can have so much fun visiting Canyon Lake's Jellystone Park that you might have to take a vacation in order to recover from this vacation.
Think that's an exaggeration? Well, just consider a sample day's activities: Saying the pledges with none other than Yogi Bear himself, going on a Hey Hey Ride.
Ponty Bone looks almost shy, his eyes tilted a little downward and his voice is so soft you almost can't hear it. Then he picks up his accordion and his head lifts high and he pulls a wide, very happy, grin across his face. Ask him a question now and that voice is clear and strong and happy.
