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Facebook now has a page devoted to Wimberley ISD teachers and their classroom needs. It’s called Support Wimberley Teachers, and Christy Degenhart was the mastermind of helping teachers, on a personal level.

In my last column, I wrote about what effect leaving our home landscaping and entire neighborhood landscaping in a more natural state could have on our climate. Two readers told me that they really appreciated that column. I am wondering if more readers would be willing to comment on this landscaping change of direction.

Photographs of high school seniors mark a milestone in a person’s life that will be kept to look back on. The one book that graduates will look back on and remember is the high school yearbook of their senior year. It is the record of how it was “in the good old days” in high school.

On July 10, Patty DeVazier sat down on the floor of her gym, turned on the camera and recorded a heartfelt plea.

All wheels are welcome at Wednesday Night Wheels! Starting in September, join us every Wednesday night from 6 PM to 8 PM at Blue Hole Regional Park. Bring your skates, ramps, boards, bikes, rails, and rollerblades and dominate the roads while they are closed to vehicles. For touchless check-in please visit the City of Wimberley website and register for the FREE program today!

After our mid July rains the Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis) is blooming in my yard. This is a native shrub/tree that has many common names including Willowleaf Catalpa, Bow Willow and Flowering Willow. There is a large one at the side entrance to the Senior Center at the Wimberley Community Center.

It took Dean Miller a week to go from “non-essential” to “essential.”

The last few yeas Vermillionaire cuphea has become a must have plant for several parts of my landscape. I have actually had hummingbirds hitting on them in my driveway as I got them out of the car. Even though it is now late July it is a must have plant for all Central Texas Gardeners.

When companies like Amazon, Urban Mining, SmileDirectClub, Visionary Fiber Technology and others establish a new facility in our region, this accomplishment does not happen by chance.

One day this week I had the great pleasure of visiting the 4.5 acre yard and gardens of Kruger and Shannon du Plessis. They have named their acreage Stoic Sages and they do have many different types of sages abundantly planted throughout. Shannon, a Hays County Master Naturalist, macro photographer, and winner of many awards for her photographs of pollinators is a person dedicated to preserving pollinators. She is planning to offer three-hour immersive mac ro-photography and pollinator workshops dedicated to increasing awareness of, as well as appreciation and protection of pollinators.

“It’s a challenge, but aspects are really fun, too.” That’s what Carl Finch, leader of Brave Combo, had to say about performing remotely during the pandemic. “We are trying to become as creative within the virtual realm as we can, and working with organizations like the Wimberley Players is particularly exciting because we know the sky’s the limit, artistically.”

The EmilyAnn Theatre, like all other theatres across the country, has had to temporarily shut down, canceling five productions, a full half year of theatre education and classes, and their huge annual Butterfly Festival. In the midst of these trying times, the EmilyAnn team put together take home live caterpillar kits and packets for families to drive by and pick up (at no cost, though donations were appreciated), and Wimberley families were able to raise their own butterflies!

Father Phil Mason misses the interaction with his parishioners the most.