One of the curious things about living in this part of Texas - well, just one and among a very long list of such curiosities - is that one encounters small graveyards all over; a quarter acre here, a half acre there, a dozen weathering and …
I am now convinced that every large to medium-sized American city which possesses some history and a fair amount of local wealth, also possesses a botanical garden housed in a once-magnificent gated estate with a marvelous garden; San Antonio's McNay Art Museum, for example …
Well, the Daughter Unit and I made a most excellent discovery, returning home last weekend with a trunk full of finds at the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society's massive rummage-sale bash, in the parking lot at Rackspace Hosting. Here we were, doodling along the …
Created Tuesday, 20 July 2010 12:57
My Daughter Unit is currently a college student, busily engaged in picking up credits towards a degree in research biology, and therefore is on a strict budget as far as recreational shopping goes. Still, she enjoys the …
Created Friday, 16 July 2010 15:07
By Julia Hayden
Playhouse and Fort exhibit ends October 24, 2010
In the Botanical Garden that is - the San Antonio Botanical Garden, hidden up at the end of Funsten, at the top end of …
By hook and by crook and a great deal of determination, the once semi-industrial area around the old Pearl Brewery in San Antonio, TX is gentrifying; renovate the buildings, slap in some top-grade landscaping and bring in the right mix of retail …
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Perhaps it might come as a surprise to the bi-coastal cultural types to find out there is more to San Antonio than the Alamo and a greater variety of available forms of amusements on a weekend evening than high school football. I am always …
by Julia Hayden
This last weekend, we took the big dog and went to check out the annual Spring Jubilee in Converse. Converse is another one of those once-separate-and-identifiable towns to the north and east of San Antonio, like Universal City, Live Oak, Selma, Bulverde and Wetmore …
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The 13th Annual Festival of Flowers is San Antonio's most exciting gardening-exclusive event. Presented by SAWS (the San Antonio Water System). The SAWS-sponsored event features a plant giveaway, landscaping workshops, and plant sale. Also, get landscaping …
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I think very fondly of re-enactors when I am working up a book, especially when I am working on a bit of historical fiction about Texas. Next to the public library, and the second-hand bookstores like Half-Price Books, there is no …