Round Top Designer Show House Success: Inaugural Event Benefits Camp For All
The inaugural Round Top Designer Show House drew 1,400 visitors through its double front doors this spring.
May 2015
Don’t Be a Chicken, Dumpling
It’s possible to rent chickens in Austin. I know this because my aunt who lives in the now-tony hills west of Austin told me....
The Seasons of Dorothy Shelby
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV) Dorothy Shelby is an artist,...
More Stories from City Meat Market
Tootsie Tomanetz, now a Texas barbecue pitmaster of renown and my former boss at City Meat Market in Lexington, said she never had any...
It’s Easy Being Green
I was going to Round Top for business, but it quickly turned into pleasure. Green is my favorite color, and the Roundtopolis is green...
Seven Theft Prevention Tips for Landowners
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association’s (TSCRA) 30 special rangers, stationed throughout Texas and Oklahoma, are busy handling cases involving millions of dollars of...
Xeriscape Roses
Roses are a favorite landscape plant. Most modern roses are hybrid tea roses offering a huge selection of varieties in every imaginable color. Hybrid...
Bobwhite Quail
One of my greatest childhood memories was visiting my aunt’s dairy in north Texas and listening to the distinctive call of the bobwhite quail....
Famous Trees of Texas
It’s been said that every tree tells a story. If Texas’ trees could speak, what a story they would tell: love, honor, betrayal,...
A King Size Problem: Don’t Let Your Tootsie Roll
In 1955, the Coca Cola ® Company introduced the King Size Coke. This isn’t to say the “bigger is better” concept was invented sixty...