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VIEW WIC and Chamber Volunteer Alan Marburger. PHOTO BY GARY ZUPANCIC/WIMBERLEY

If you haven’t yet tuned in for the monthly Tuesday Night Arts Zoom-cast, co-produced by the Wimberley Parks and Recreation and Wimberley Valley Arts and Cultural Alliance, you’ll have another opportunity next Tuesday, March 9, 7-9 pm. The event was created to support artists during COVID and provide a venue for our community to become familiar with and inspired by the fabulous creative folk who live here. During this FREE, family-friendly virtual program, local artists from the visual, literary, culinary, and performing arts are interviewed and give tours of their studios or demonstrations of their craft, giving viewers a behind-thescenes look at the creative process.

The last column I wrote was before the BIG FREEZE. Time will tell what plants made it through that unprecedented extended cold week. I can assure you, based on my years gardening in Ohio, that the snow helped protect the plants.

Power out, broken pipes, no water, sub-zero temperatures breaking all sorts of weather records, snow upon snow. There were endless stories of hardship. It was the week of the worst of times. But then again it was also the best of times.

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A decade or two ago, summer afternoons near the Blanco meant lots of visitors, swimming in the river or Blue Hole. They might be stopping in town and having a snow cone at the Snocone Dude’s Wimberley Shave Ice, and hearing a train whistle echoing through the valley from Pioneer Town all afternoon.

Jesse Huth hops out of his car. He has binoculars dangling from his neck and a camera with a footand-a-half-long lens draped over his shoulder.

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By the time you read this column Valentine’s Day will have already passed . That means it is time to trim the roses in preparation for spring blooms. After trimming, the young red growth will be visible. This new growth is susceptible to freezes, so if a hard freeze is predicted you might cover your bushes.

Yes, Covid has changed many things, but one big thing that has not changed is the wonderful programs offered at the Wimberley Village Library. Altered, yes, but there is still a wide, wonderful world to explore, all in one building on FM 2325.

One of my favorite readings about planting grass for a lawn turned up as I was trying to decide what I could write about for my Keep Wimberley Beautiful Wimberley View column. The title of the reading is God & St. Francis. Because it is longer than my column allows, I will edit it to suit the paper’s requirements. Here goes my summary of the delightful original.

What do you consider your legacy to be passed on after you are gone? It is a very important question. Your first answer might be money, land, jewelry or stocks, but after reading “Our Museum of Us,” you might want to change your answer.

Sometimes meaning in a piece of art is quite evident. Other times the piece needs to be studied and reflected on to achieve the meaning within the work. Sometimes the work has no meaning except to the artist.