The Blooming Season Has Begun
I think the cold weather may finally be officially passed. The cholla and prickly pear have ceased to droop and are putting on buds; the hedgehogs and rainbows are blooming, and one horse crippler has an early flower. This is the first week of May, the time my cactus...

Ingrid’s Custom Hand Woven, Inc.
if you are in the area of the Texas Hill Country, I suggest you take a little side trip to Paint Rock to see what I fear is a dying art once done by hand-taking fleece, cording and spinning it into yarn, and weaving the yarn into rugs. Beautiful, one of a kind rugs....

How to Get the Man of the Year to the Chamber Banquet
You lie and plot, that’s how. And oh, what a tangled web was woven. Right off the bat things were more complicated because Lonnie Adrian had made plans not to attend the Muleshoe Chamber of Commerce banquet, but to travel to Liberty, Texas, to build playground...
Notocactus Haselbergii
This little cactus is a nice bloomer and the orange to red flowers provide a contrast to many of the pink blooms of many cactus. You may see this cactus also identified as Parodia haselbergii. More experts changing the names on me. The plant is native to...
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