Your Guide To Marble Falls, Burnet, Kingsland, Llano, Spicewood, Horseshoe Bay, and ALL of the Highland Lakes.
Mike Chesnutt and Chris Sandman marvel at the growth in popularity of disc golf in the Highland Lakes since more than a decade ago when the two began playing. Back then, there was one disc golf course with a second Read more…
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Take a walk without going anywhere. Find a tree and touch it. Keep touching it. Just stay there. Feel the rough bark on your fingertips and against your palm. With phone off — completely off — find a favorite spot Read more…
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Unlike honeybees, native bees are solitary. The female bees lay their eggs in holes in trees and wood or in the ground. You can attract more native bees to your garden by building a bee hotel to make finding a Read more…
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Mason bees love bluebonnets, depending on them for nectar and nourishment. The bluebonnets are just as dependent on these native Central Texas bees for their own existence. In fact, this particular species of bee hatches each year just in time Read more…
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Whether you enjoy just hacking the ball around or believe you have a shot at the PGA Tour, the Highland Lakes has a golf course to suit your style. Blue Lake Golf Club, 214 W. Bluebonnet Road off RR 2831 Read more…
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Green thumbs aren’t necessary to produce juicy, delicious tomatoes, according to Ricky Lane, Master Gardener and project manager of The Helping Center of Marble Falls garden. Anyone who follows Lane’s simple guidelines for growing in the Hill Country heat can Read more…
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A right-of-way inquiry turned into the latest exhibit at The Falls on the Colorado Museum in Marble Falls: a 125-year-old section of the railroad spur that carried the rock used to build the state Capitol building from Granite Mountain to Read more…
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After the standup paddleboard dunked me into the water for the third time — it was obviously its fault, not mine — my wife, Sheri, cruised by on her own board, smirked at me, and made a somewhat disparaging comment Read more…
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Professional photographer Ronnie Madrid, owner of Divine Radiance Photography in Marble Falls, recently took 101HighlandLakes.com to a patch of bluebonnets on RR 1431 west of Marble Falls to demonstrate how best to capture Texas’s state flower and other wildflowers on Read more…
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Home to over 115 species and subspecies of snakes, Texas harbors more of these reptiles than any other state in the nation. The good news is that most of these snakes — roughly 85 percent — are nonvenomous. In fact, Read more…
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