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Dan Goggin’s hilarious musical farce, Nunsense, opens on the Wimberley Players stage on July 30th and runs through August 22nd for four weekends for a total of 14 performances.

It’s pretty clear that the 2020-2021 was a tumultuous year for teachers, students and parents.

Hunters Night Out (HNO), sponsored by St. Mary Knights of Columbus held on October 23, will offer two Longhorns at their live auction. John Czop, a Knight of the Order, feeds cattle cubes to the herd while looking over the available calves. The Longhorns will be just one of many auction items at the 18th Annual Hunters Night Out held live “Under the Big Tent.” Tickets are available at HNO website: www. huntersnightout.com.

Looking at a successful July in the rear-view mirror, the Wimberley Lions Club is in preparation for the next Market Day on Saturday, August 7, with their usual enthusiasm and focus on community service. Lions Field will be fully operational and ready for another fun- and treasure-filled shopping experience complete with over 350 vendors and all 10 concession stands, serving up tasty eats and sweet summertime treats. Lions members and volunteers from the many non-profit organizations who are helped with annual grants from the club will be sure to make the Market Day enjoyable and safe for the many visitors who come to Wimberley just to shop at this iconic open-air marketplace.

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Sweet Caroline Medusa Green is an architectural plant of the first order. I know what you are thinking, isn’t that a sweet potato? The answer is, a-hearty yes and AMEN, thank you! Sweet Caroline Medusa Green is like no other sweet potato.

After writing a couple of weeks ago about finding Nymphalidae butterfly larva on my Sunflower plants, today I found more than a dozen border patch butterflies (chlosyne lacinia) on the nearby Zexmenia. Zexmenia (Wedelia acapulcensis), along with sunflowers, is one of the host plants for the beautiful border patch butterfly.

The Wimberley Players has again opened up the world of theatre to children with the First Stage Theatre Camp. In this threeday camp for kids aged 8 to 13, participants can peek behind the curtain into the dynamic and rewarding world of theatre. Held at The Wimberley Playhouse, the workshop will inform campers how theatre originated, demonstrate the way a theater’s space is used, and show by what means a production comes to life through the collaboration of multiple disciplines and artists. Kids will gain sound theatre training in a structured, fun-filled atmosphere and learn confidence, how to express themselves, and ways to work patiently and respectfully with each other.

For about a year or so, when we were all cooped up, Alexis Pointe was extra careful with their residents. So careful that residents did not experience the disease. It was hard on everyone, especially the seniors living there who were sheltered inside. EmilyAnn found unique ways to safely provide needed programs to entertain the residents oftentimes by performing different activities outside the window of each resident.

If you were traveling on FM 2325 about a week or so ago and rounded a corner near Burnett Ranches, the issue was readily apparent. There was a rather large home sitting on the side of the road just a foot or two from the edge of the lane.

It might be a little hard to find, but in a small house, with a small room just off a small dirt road along Wayside Drive is a set of beautiful handcrafted brooms. Displayed along the walls, no two are alike, and each has its own story. This is a place to ponder the world and appreciate nature, somewhere that’s a little slower-paced. It also houses a time honored craft, broom making.

There is not a big variety of wildflowers blooming right now, but Mountain Pinks are blooming on a road near me, Spoke Hollow Road just off RR12 and just a short distance beyond 1492 as you have headed toward San Marcos. The flowers are along the roadside, primarily on the right side of Spoke Hollow. The clusters of these lovely pink flowers look like a small bouquet, and indeed, just one picked one would make a lovely display. (I’m not recommending that you pick them, however. Just admire them and allow them to re-seed for future years.) The flowers prefer “dry, barren, open areas on calice or marl outcrops” according to Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country. The plants themselves are about 6” - 8” high. Its bloom period is from May to July so hurry if you wish to spot them. This flower is apparently not one of our most common as I don’t see them in too many places.

The Texas Legislature convened in special session last Thursday and GOP legislators introduced a fresh set of voting bills after Democrats blocked an earlier attempt during the regular session by walking out in May, preventing a quorum.