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Cleo Glosson died peacefully on May 21, 2021. Cleo was born May 20, 1934 in Buda, TX to Wiley and Mamie Lowden.

Sitting on the couch sometime last winter with my trusty perennial catalogue in hand I gawked over the Pyromania red hot pokers or torch lilies. I thought to myself we grew red hot pokers at the Columbus Botanical Garden and at the Coastal Georgia Botanical Garden in Savannah. Why not at The Garden Guy’s house?

Hopeless, nowhere to turn. Abused and forgotten. Unspeakable situations. How can anyone help me? That is the life of a lot of forgotten youth. But back in 1973 Rosemary Burke and Charlie Campise had an idea to help.

The Wimberley High School UIL Academic team came home earlier in the month with top awards. Leading the pack was Quinton Mendoza’s first place win in Current Issues leading the team to a first place tie. Mendoza was also first in Social Studies and led the WHS team to a second place finish. Quinton is only a junior at Wimberley High School, but this isn’t his first time to place first in state competition. He also came in first in Current Issues his freshman year as a team member.

The recent rains have helped our plants and the aquifer. The Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District (HTGCD) is responsible for monitoring the health of our groundwater, the source of the water coming from our taps.

The Hill Contry Community Band will perform a free, outdoor concert on Sunday, May 23, at 4:00 P.M. and the theme is “Spring into Music!” The concert venue will be at the Blanco River Academy pavilion, behind the academy’s main building, located at 501 Old Kyle Road in Wimberley.

Spring and its change to higher temperatures bring about huge changes to everything, from birds to bees, plants to people and ducks to the Blanco. Not only the real ducks at the 1492 bridge, but the floatable kind to Water’s Point. Oh you remember, it was only a few years ago.

The logos on many of the bottles of wine at the new Limestone Terrace Vineyard are illustrated with a small smudge of ash.

Poverty is here, and people are in desperate situations due to the pandemic and snowstorm of recent history. Maybe not in plain sight, but it’s there. A family catastrophe can wipe out a family’s budget in the blink of an eye.

Texas stands to gain two seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after results of the 2020 census released last week show the state had the largest numerical gain of any state since the 2010 census

Here they come. Many of the plants I feared had died in the February 0 degree F storm are sending up shoots at their base. Now you can cut off the dead wood above. The Pride of Barbados, Palo Verde, Mexican Firebush and Kidneywood were among the last to send up shoots from their base. It will be several years before they regain their previous stature.

Last week, the Greater San Marcos Partnership (GSMP) participated in two groundbreakings for innovative companies – Parallel and Iron Ox – who picked the Texas Innovation Corridor as their new home. As disruptive agricultural cultivators, these companies are bringing tens of millions of dollars in capital investment and hundreds of new, locally sourced jobs. Notably though, both companies chose Hays and Caldwell Counties (respectively) because of the talented, high-skill workforce that resides there.

On hills and in the valleys, people live and still work ranches. There are still a few real cowboys around the edges of town.. A drive to Mount Gainor between Wimberley and Dripping Springs is surprisingly rural and empty when you consider the development on Ranch Road 12 and U.S. 290.