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Fun with a good cause describes the Hill Country Wine & Music Festival, held at Wildseed Farms April 26-28, all proceeds went to the Texas Center for Wine and Culinary Arts. Ken Maxwell, festival chairman, spoke with me about the…
Continue readingIn native language Taos means place of red willows. Taos, a community of approximately 6,000 folks, sits at 7,000 feet next to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Best Way to See Taos: May through October, jump aboard the Historic Taos…
Continue readingSmithville, located between Houston and Austin; San Antonio and College Station, sits among the giant pecan trees that line the Colorado River. About 4,000 folks call Smithville home. Homes are majestic and ranches surround the community. Everyone knows your name….
Continue readingHouston and I have had this love affair since…well, most of my life. Yet, this was my first time to attend the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Makes me sad to think of all the fun I’ve missed over the…
Continue readingThis clever young man needed a “mask” for the annual Brazilian Carnival in Austin, Texas. What could be more up-to-the minute than an enlarged Facebook page (his Facebook page to be specific). He cut out a large rectangle to look…
Continue readingMy first reaction when I read Linda Ballou’s article (click on the link) Have Boots Will Travel, was curiosity. When I saw the map of this circuitous 236 mile loop from Durango, Silverton, up to Ridgway, around to Telluride, circling…
Continue readingThe definition of perfection is to have everything just right without a single constraint. That’s Eagle Island. When I think of an island, visions of body numbing hours on a plane or sea-sickening boat rides come to mind. Not true…
Continue readingFor three glorious months, I called Winter Park, Colorado home. My goal was to chronicle as many adventures of the Colorado Rocky Mountains as possible. After several people mentioned High-Lonesome Hut, I knew it was time to investigate. A mountain…
Continue readingGrapevine is TRULY the Christmas Capital of Texas, officially designated so by the Texas Senate in 2009, and the season from mid-November till the first week of January is THE place
Continue readingThirteen strangers piled into the waiting raft at Lee’s Ferry on the Colorado River. It would be our transportation for the next eight days. Adam, our guide, greeted us with his eight-month-old son on his hip. Three generations of river…
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