Welcome to the Lone Star State!!
A group for all of Texas
Lenses that have to do with Texas in some way are welcome, but I'm looking for quality only, so make sure they're in shape before you submit them. I'm a picky master, so you know anything you find in this group is going to be worth reading.
So kick off your boots and enjoy some great lenses about the greatest state there is - Texas!!
Texas Claims ...
The state flower, the state song, the state tree. Anything that's the official "something" of Texas.
State Bird: Mockingbird
State Tree: Pecan
State Insect: Monarch butterfly
State Flower: Bluebonnet
State Song: Texas, Our Texas
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Bluebonnet Trails Festival | Texas State Flower
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The 58th annual salute to the state flower, sponsored by the Ennis Garden Club, includes free maps for self-guided driving tours of about 40 miles of bluebonnet trails along country roads (good for use throughout April). At the festival, expect arts...
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Monarch Butterflies are Unique
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Let us take a closer look at this jewel of creation. Observe its two pairs of powdery, delicate orange wings, etched in black, with intricately designed borders. This fragile beauty, weighing only one fortieth of an ounce [0.5 gm] and wit...
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The Mockingbird - Nature's Greatest Mimic
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Have you ever been awakened in the night by a very loud bird with a wildly varied song? Then you have heard the sounds of an unmated male mockingbird. Whether he is voicing frustration, lament or simply joy, no one seems to know, but he certainly has...
Texas Cities
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What To Do In Dallas-Fort Worth
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The Dallas-Fort Worth region is huge. Gigantic. Texas-sized, in fact. :-) And as a result, there are loads of things to do here. This is part lensography of all my lenses that have to do with Dallas-Fort Worth area events and part listing of places...
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My San Antonio
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I have been lucky enough to live in San Antonio 3 different times in my life. After high school though, like a lot of teens, I wanted to go somewhere else for college, so I moved 90 miles away to Austin. Every year at Fiesta time I would take a group...
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San Antonio Texas
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Welcome to my all about San Antonio Texas lens. Well almost I think? As a native San Antonio resident I feel that many visitors miss the opportunity to find many of the hidden gems that most visitors miss. So.. the purpose of this lens is to give you...
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The Weirdness and Weirdoes of Austin, TX
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What's so weird about Austin, the capital of Texas? How do you make a place so weird, and how do you keep it that way? Is weirdness their way of life? This is where you find out everything that's so strange about Austin.
Our Beautiful Cities
Austin, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Houston, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Texas Lensmasters
What Part of Texas Are You From?
New Stars in the Lone Star State
Check out these brand new lenses added to the group
My San Antonio, RECYCLED NEWS - San Antonio - 1881, Love, Cows, and Pigs, Great Chili: Texas Style
Texas Schools
Because we have the best in the country!
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Texas Tech Red Raiders
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I may be a diehard Indiana Hoosiers fan but I am also a fan of the General, Robert Montgomery Knight. He took a Texas Tech team that was one of the worst teams in the Big 12 and turned them into a winning program. Bob Knight is the winningest active...
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Texas Sports
Stars, Longhorns, Rockets, oh my!!
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Gifts Dallas Cowboy Fans
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My husband LOVES the Cowboys. I love my husband. He tells me they are America's team! I tell him, they're okay. He knows I am very involved in my internet business. So, I thought I could do both. It's called keeping...
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Texas Motor Speedway
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Texas may be known for a lot of things - but I only care about one: The Great American Speedway in Justin, Texas (near Fort Worth). The Texas Motor Speedway is a one and a half mile quad-oval track that hosts races for all levels of NASCAR racing (Sp...
Missing Texas
Blog of our own group member Randy Hill, who has the misfortune of being a misplaced Texan.
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From Sam Houston to the Texas Rangers
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Texas Flags - From The Alamo to Today
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Texas has led a storied history up to today. The famous state was a part of Mexico as well as its own nation before joining the United States. The history of this journey is long and intricate, so there is no way to cover it all here. Instead, let's...
Burnt Orange Report
Everything you need to know about Texas politics. Several reporters on this blog and lots of links to left and right-leaning blogs.
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Texas Events
Festivals, food and fun as big as Texas
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Texas Scottish Festival & Highland Games
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Let the wee bit of Scot out in you at the 23rd annual Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games. Watch the caber toss, catch the Scottish fiddlers, scarf down some haggis. This three-day festival is a Scottish delight.
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Scarborough Renaissance Festival | Medieval Festival | Renaissance Fair
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Spend the day in the 16th century and have the time of your life at this year's Scarborough Renaissance Festival down in Waxahachie. 2009 dates are April 4 through May 25. You'll find everything you need to know here as well as information about the...
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Dallas CityArts Festival
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Head on down to the arts district for the city's annual celebration of the varied arts available in Dallas. Check out the art museums for free, chomp on some carny food and listen to great bands play on the various stages. (Don't forget to come by t...
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Bats in Austin TX
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While looking for strange travel destinations, you just might accidentally happen on some sunset pictures - featuring 1.5 million flying bats. That's when you know you gotta go there, and see it, and that's when you find out everything else that's so...
Favorite Places for a weekend getaway
Beckman Inn & Carriage House - San Antonio
Located in the heart of the San Antonio's downtown more...1 point
The Captured : A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier - Scott Zesch | Audio Book
Download this Audio Book and Visit the places thes more...1 point
Moody Gardens - Galveston
Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston offers full-servi more...0 points
Texas People
Movie stars, politicians, singers, writers and more
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Waltz Across Texas With Ernest Tubb
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I am a country oldies fan. I love country music from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Ernest Tubb, better known as "ET", recorded "Waltz Across Texas" in 1965. This song is still a popular tune in dance halls all over...
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Maria Corbalan - Taco Xpress Austin, TX 78704
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This is the story of Maria Corbalan from birth in Buenos Aires to Austin legend - her wild journey from homelessness to economic independence, from drug-induced disasters to recovery and healing - from dysfunction to success. Her courage inspires hun...
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America's Most Popular Populist - Jim Hightower
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America's icon of the populist movement shops "green", of couse! Nearly every Saturday morning, down at the farmer's market in South Austin, a man walks by my booth, always shouting a friendly greeting. Sometimes he stops for a quick chuckle about th...
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Texas Food
The real reason we're all here!!
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Organic Flavored Agave Nectar and Diabetic Sweetener - Low Glycemic Agasweet
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Recipes and information about Agasweet, the original healthfully flavored agave nectar, currently causing a nation-wide buzz of excitement due to its wonderful taste and incredible versatility. Please note! When I state that agave sweeteners are "su...
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The Best BBQ in Austin
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You haven't been to Texas until you have sampled the barbeque. There are plenty of places to find it, but finding the good stuff can be difficult. This will be the place to find everything you would want to know about barbeque in Austin. The good, th...
Books About Texas
Books about Texas
Texas Places
Landmarks, parks and the like
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Visit the Guadalupe River in Texas
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At 230 miles long, the Guadalupe River is a Texas staple for all types of boating, spectacular fishing, and meandering along on a tube. The Guadalupe begins in Kerr county, west of Kerrville, and runs to the Gulf of Mexico. It was named Nuestra Seno...
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Visit Canyon Lake, Texas
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Canyon Lake was developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers for flood protection and water conservation. Construction of the man-made lake began in 1958 and ended in 1964. Canyon Lake was created by damming up the Guadalupe River. Canyon Lake reached...
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Texas Wildflowers :: Lady Bird Johnson
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I'm not a Texas girl. Yet one of the things that I like best about Texas are the wildflowers. With 268,000 square miles - most of it undeveloped - there is plenty of room for a riot of wildflowers! Bluebonnets, paintbrushes, phlox and salvia are...
Our Beautiful Landscape
Talk about variety!!
Marble Falls field of bluebonnets - our beautiful state flower
Barton Creek in Austin
Canyon State Park
Brazos River
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Texas Travel
Helpful lenses for those of you coming to visit us
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San Antonio La Quinta Hotel
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Our new La Quinta Hotel in San Antonio TX has conference rooms, suites and rooms. We are dedicated to providing leisure, group, and business travelers the best mid priced, high-value San Antonio accommodations. We expect to rapidly become the most po...
Texas Living
Helpful lenses for those of us who live here
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Texas Electricity: The Power to Choose Your Electricity Company
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Something tells me most of us are caught up in the who's who and what's what of the energy debate. It's more than daunting as an energy consumer to try and sift through the constant pounding from all sides on green energy, renewable energy, fossil fu...
Texas Wishlist
Want to see a lens on a Texas topic? Suggest it here and maybe someone will make it!
Have a lens on a topic you see here? Submit it to the group as it's obviously a perfect fit!
Texas Rocks!
Don't be bashful. Jump right in with an opinion. The absolutely best thing about Texas is . . .
Heather426 wrote...
I love Texas and have family all over it from both sides, even though I live in California now, I go home as much as possible. 2 kids and an ex are in Texas....(he's my only ex so all my exes do live in Texas)
love this group!
Posted May 12, 2009
Lori_Lee-Ray wrote...
Currently working on my Texas lense! Soon as I get it finished, I'll be back to join. I live in the Pineywoods of East Texas. I'm hiding out here in Lufkin :)
Howdy to all of my family!
Lori_Lee-Ray
Posted May 01, 2009
California_Dreamin wrote...
This is one of the nicest group lenses I've seen. Thanks for adding my lens, "Great Chili: Texas Style" to your group.
Posted April 02, 2009
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