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Monarch Butterflies are Unique

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...

The Mockingbird - Nature's Greatest Mimic

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...

Bluebonnet Trails Festival | Texas State Flower

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...

Texas Cities 

What To Do In Dallas-Fort Worth

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...

The Weirdness and Weirdoes of Austin, TX

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.

San Antonio Texas

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...

My San Antonio

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...

Texas Schools 

Because we have the best in the country!

Texas Tech Red Raiders

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...

Texas Sports 

Stars, Longhorns, Rockets, oh my!!

Texas Motor Speedway

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...

Gifts Dallas Cowboy Fans

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...

Texas History 

From Sam Houston to the Texas Rangers

Texas Flags - From The Alamo to Today

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...

Texas Events 

Festivals, food and fun as big as Texas

Texas Scottish Festival & Highland Games

Let the wee bit of Scot out in you at the 24th 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. Dates for 2010 are June 4-6.

Scarborough Renaissance Festival | Medieval Festival | Renaissance Fair

Spend the day in the 16th century and have the time of your life at this year's Scarborough Renaissance Festival down in Waxahachie. 2010 dates are April 10 through May 31. You'll find everything you need to know here as well as information about th...

Dallas CityArts Festival

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. The festival will be held a...

Bats in Austin TX

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...

Texas People 

Movie stars, politicians, singers, writers and more

America's Most Popular Populist - Jim Hightower

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...

Maria Corbalan - Taco Xpress Austin, TX 78704

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...

Waltz Across Texas With Ernest Tubb

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...

Texas Food 

The real reason we're all here!!

Breakfast in Dallas

Dallas has quite the wide variety of restaurant options and I love going out to try new places. Figuring out a good place for breakfast to meet friends or colleagues or clients has always been a bit of a challenge, however, if you want to step out of...

The Best BBQ in Austin

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...

Texas Places 

Landmarks, parks and the like

Visit the Guadalupe River in Texas

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...

Texas Wildflowers :: Lady Bird Johnson

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...

Visit Canyon Lake, Texas

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...

Texas Travel 

Helpful lenses for those of you coming to visit us

San Antonio La Quinta Hotel

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

Texas Electricity: The Power to Choose Your Electricity Company

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...