Even the calendar says that it is Spring. The days and nights are of equal length and the spring trees are in bloom. The pink trees like those in front of King’s Hardware are Red Buds and are often the first trees we see in bloom. The white ones are either Pear trees or Mexican Plum. Both of them are currently blooming around town.
Another Home Tour event from the Wimberley Civic Club gets underway April 1. The traditional kickoff party has been replaced this year with an online auction featuring more than 30 experientially-focused items. Designed to help bidders return to the world of friends, fun, and purpose following the isolation of Covid, it can be accessed by going to wimberleyccc.org. Ticket sales, a teaser video of the tour, and the auction all go live April 1.
One of the community’s most loved events is Butterfly Day at EmilyAnn Theatre and Gardens. Kids of all ages would don butterfly shirts and dress as butterflies as thousands of caged butterflies would be set free to feast on cantaloupe that was held in your hand.
You have probably been outside working in the yard or washing the car and heard what sounded like a lawnmower engine above. You look up and you see Doug Upshaw in his powered parachute slowly making his way across the horizon.
The Home Tour is back! The 33rd Annual Hill Country Home Tour gets underway April 16 & 17 with four outstanding homes. Featured this year are Ken & Yvette Stranges’ Spoon Mountain Glamping property that showboats South African safari tents with all the luxuries. Intended as commercial vacation rentals, the three tents are sited beneath a grove of oaks and back up to Spoon Mountain. Interiors reflect safari themes.
On Saturday, March 27 there will be a major Wimberley Valley Spring Cleanup event!
People come to Wimberley from all over.
This spring is a little different than years past. Dealing with the annual spring-cleaning, there’s also the added damage of the snowstorm and what was left in its wake. The city of Wimberley and Keep Wimberley Beautiful came up with an idea to help.
After the February deep freeze we are still looking to see what survived. This is the normal time for the Escarpment Oaks (our native Central Texas Oaks) to drop their leaves. I am in hopes that soon we will see the new leaves appear and the Oaks will have survived the zero F degree freeze.
It is March and the weather is warming. St. Patrick’s Day will come and it is spring break. The bluebonnets and other wildflowers will start to pop out of the ground. These are a just few warmer things to think about after being sucker-punched in February by snow and record-breaking cold.
Volunteers come in all sizes and kinds. Take Marjorie DeHart, for instance. She doesn’t get around as much as she used to, but her volunteer heart makes sure she is still making a difference.
Although Covid did cancel this years’ projectART Adult Prom, mark the date for next year’s on February 26, 2022. Last year’s event was the first big fundraiser for the organization.
WOW! What a week to get through but I did it and think (and certainly hope) that all of you did, too. I lost many plants, but I am waiting to see what might come back before pruning them too severely. In the meantime, I found an interesting and helpful article in the Shades of Green nursery newsletter concerning pruning hints. I am going to edit and condense some of their suggestions.
The next family campout program at Blue Hole Regional Park will be on March 27th starting at 3 p.m. The campout is $50 for a family of 5.
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Wimberley, TX 78676
Phone: 512-847-2202
Fax: 512-847-9054
