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Marilee Wood, a key figure in the creation of modern Wimberley, will be remembered at 2 p.m. this Saturday at the Wood/Grinstead Amphitheater of Blue Hole Regional Park. Everyone is welcome for the memorial event, which takes place in the park that Wood did so much to save and develop for Wimberley. Wood died Jan. 25, in Houston.

One of Wimberley’s largest annual events, the 24th annual Butterfly Festival, will take place this Saturday at the EmilyAnn Theatre and Gardens after a two year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Blue Hole Regional Park will be hosting their Bi-Annual Blue Hole Star Party for the fifth year on April 30 from 8:30 to 10 p.m. over by the soccer fields next to the basketball courts.

Lots of kids find swimming in cool water a great way to enjoy Blue Hole Park. Some kids find analyzing Blue Hole water is pretty cool, too.

The Lone Star Theatre, Wimberley High School’s One Act Play and theater program, is continuing their success as they advanced to the Area Round of Competition with their performance of the play “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” by Christopher Durang.

“The Cover of Life” by R.T. Robinson opens on the Wimberley Players stage April 29 and runs through May 22. Tood, Weetsie, and Sybil are all brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each is married to a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war, and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Life Magazine editor Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover and assigns reporter Kate Miller to the story. She has been covering the war in Europe. Though she views doing a “women’s piece” as a career setback, she accepts the assignment because it will be her first cover story. Kate spends a week with the Cliffert women. Her haughty urban attitude gives way to sympathy as she begins to understand them while coming face- to-face with her own powerlessness in a man’s world. Filled with charm and fun, ‘The Cover of Life” is a deeply affecting story about the struggle for self-worth.

Our poor plants are struggling with the meager rainfall and late freezes. I keep a plant diary and most plants are at least three weeks late in blooming. However, I noticed my Carolina Jasmine vine is blooming. There are flowers on the Agarita and Texas Mountain Laurel. All three of these plants are evergreen, drought tolerant and grow in either full sun or part shade.

Being an artist community, Wimberley has allowed a variety of artists of many different styles and practices to work on their craft to become successful.

Many people, especially newcomers to Texas, do not realize that many of our favorite wildflowers that bloom in the spring, must be planted in the fall. That is true for Texas’ state flower, the Bluebonnet. (By the way, I just learned that the bluebonnet had a lot of competition for this honor. It seems that it had to win out over such hot competition as the open cotton boll and the blossom of the prickly pear cactus. Both of these flowers are beautiful, but would you really want them to be our state flower over the bluebonnet?)

On Christmas Day 2019, Christmas was found wandering the HCR neighborhood with his mom and her friends. Concerned neighbors jumped into action, corralling the small herd and working with authorities to locate their owners. When none came forward, Ed and Laura Hoppe (pronounced “hope”) gave the newly nicknamed Chris his forever home. It’s what they do best, providing refuge for those who need a place to belong.

As the Best of Wimberley contest voting continues, one of the most heated awards is back on the ballot – the Best Breakfast Taco

Due to our lack of fall and winter rains we are in a drought. In Wimberley the main source of tap water is the Trinity aquifer. Our limestone karst rocks beneath the soil have recharge areas where rain water seeps back into the underground pockets that make up our aquifer.

Anyone who remembers the Wimberley Valley Big Band’s Mardi Gras Dance in 2020 will soon be dusting off his or her dancing shoes when they hear the news about the Moonlight Swing Dance happening on March 24.