Your Guide To Marble Falls, Burnet, Kingsland, Llano, Spicewood, Horseshoe Bay, and ALL of the Highland Lakes.
Pedernales Falls State Park is 8 square miles of glorious scenery east of Johnson City featuring panoramic views of the Hill Country. Pedernales Falls State Park is named for the Pedernales River that flows through it and offers over 20 Read more…
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First (no, we aren’t going to say mulch, mulch, mulch — later though), it’s time to start a new journal for your outdoor adventures. Anything from a Big Chief tablet to a leather-bound journal will work. We would like to encourage Read more…
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Have you seen the multitude of baby bluebonnets peeking through the soil? We are going to have a bounty of wildflowers this spring! While you’re sipping warm apple cider and planning your spring garden, we’re here to help. As we Read more…
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As Christmas Day passes, you might start packing away your decorations and nativity scenes. But not so fast. “Christmas isn’t over on the twenty-fifth,” said the Rev. Harold Vanicek of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Marble Falls. “It’s just beginning.” The Read more…
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“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care …” It’s a line from Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Stockings hung by the chimney (or elsewhere) are a Christmas staple. But from where did this tradition Read more…
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It’s one of the most popular Christmas carols but also one of the most confounding. Why exactly would anyone want to give their true love “eight maids a-milking?” But that’s just what the writer of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” Read more…
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“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.” It’s a rather dark way for a Christmas story to begin, yet that’s exactly how author Charles Dickens opens “A Christmas Carol.” And he’s quite clear on Read more…
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I never really bought into the “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” storyline as far as how Santa came to be Santa. Though Mickey Rooney did a good job as Kris Kringle, the whole idea of there being a Burgermeister Read more…
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I only had to travel to the heart of Burnet to be whisked back in time and thousands of miles away to a tiny hamlet near Jerusalem on a chilly winter’s night. While the shepherds and wise men followed a Read more…
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Although the first day of winter — the Winter Solstice — isn’t until Dec. 21, we have certainly had some nights cold enough to determine which of our outside plants are frost-tolerant or frost-susceptible as we discussed in a previous Read more…
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