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NOTE: Although this event was not held in 2020, many of the vendors mentioned do still offer lavender products in-store and online. Here's to 2021!
Blanco offers its visitors historic buildings, quaint gifts, and antique shops, and a front-row seat along the Spring wildflower trail. The Blanco River winds through the edge of town, providing a scenic tourist attraction as well as the site of Blanco State Park, which is inside the city limits and only a short walk from the courthouse square.
These are the words of commitment one first sees entering Kimble County’s new Historical Museum. Efficiently and expertly designed and housed in the county’s former hospital built in 1958, the museum officially opened in March, 2019.
Tracing the county’s creation from Bexar County in 1858 and organization in 1876, the 12,000-sq.ft.
Want to take a trip back in time? Want to stop the cattle rustlers? Want to star in a Western movie? You can do it every weekend right here in the Hill Country. The good guys with guns in their hands may be you or your family and friends. The bad guys are steel targets.
When Shannon Worrell inherited property in Mason, it wasn’t exactly a dream come true. Not at the time – far from it. The location was great, within easy walking distance of the picturesque, vibrant town square and bordered by Comanche Creek. But a dilapidated building, the one-time Ana Lee Nursing Home, sprawled over 10,000 square feet, literally piled with trash and debris, and in such a sorry state that it was going to be condemned by the City.
After Miss Lee retired in the 1980s, Wo ...
To help maintain their good looks and vitality, TV and movie celebrities have come up with workout routines that promise to burn calories, tone muscles and presumably slow the aging process. They’ll be happy to share their “secrets” with you…for a price.
I’m certainly no celebrity, but as a ranch resident of the Texas Hill Country with its ubiquitous, evergreen ashe juniper (or mountain cedar), I myself have developed The Kickin’-Ashe Workout that delivers heart-pumpin’, muscl ...
ar·ti·san
• a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
(of food or drink) made in a traditional or non-mechanized way using high-quality ingredients.
What’s more artisan than winemaking? Human beings using their hands to take an agricultural product (grapes) and turning them into a consumable item that is not only enjoyable but one that brings people together to create stories and memories.
Leakey, the county seat of Real County, welcomes visitors and attracts newcomers to an area of outstanding natural beauty. Its steep, rugged terrain creates deep canyons which shelter the Frio and Nueces rivers. Lazy, slow-moving stretches of water are interspersed with thrilling whitewater rapids and deep pools, providing exceptional kayaking, tubing and fishing for outdoor enthusiasts.
Driving tours are popular with both auto and motorcycle aficionados, where hairpin curves cling to the m ...
Can you keep a secret?
Here’s the deal — I found this great place in Ingram where you can get hand-crafted old-fashioned cakes and cookies. Now you see, I’m not really supposed to eat sweets, but . . . well . . . you know how a schnauzer reacts when he sniffs a sirloin.
I did not expect what I saw at JP Mazanec’s RustiCustom Wimberley workshop.
He’s an expert woodworker. Name the wood, name the project, and he’ll do it whether it’s functional or art or perhaps both. His workshop is expansive — more than 2,000 square feet with every tool you can imagine accompanied by paints and stains and pieces of wood.
The workshop is surrounded outside by wood, some exposed to the elements and some in sheds.
