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Friend or Foe? How Can You Know?

By Neil Sperry • August 2, 2017

These are good guys (gals!). They’re the immature stages of the twice-stabbed ladybugs that you may find on crape myrtles. The mature form is glossy black with two orange-red dots …

Native Son: MOWING THE GRASS

By Steven Chamblee • July 19, 2017

It’s a beautiful day in Texas. Eighty-three degrees, eight-thirty am, Wanted to be productive, but not get too dirty, amen. I figured I’d mow the grass, Probably just take just …

Native Son: Making a Little Room For the New

By Steven Chamblee • June 14, 2017

“I can do that?” “Yep…and I think you should. Just because it’s there now doesn’t mean you have to live with it the rest of your life.” “But what if …

Native Son: Geoponic Ritual of the Snaxet

By Steven Chamblee • May 17, 2017

I recently visited the “Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed” exhibit at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, which got me to thinking about how we view other cultures…and how they …

Native Son: Road Trip “Torture”

By Steven Chamblee • April 19, 2017

The misfortune started quickly…an extra sausage patty on my jalapeno cheddar biscuit. There’s just nothing more miserable than Texas in the springtime. Azure skies accented with little puffy clouds, …

Native Son: Teddy Bears in Tyler

By Steven Chamblee • March 15, 2017

If you live in Texas, you need to see the Alamo, Enchanted Rock, the Bluebonnets, and Tyler in the springtime. I know there’s a whole bunch of other great …

Native Son: The Awakening

By Steven Chamblee • February 14, 2017

1:55am. The coffee pot gurgles and belches. No coffee in there; instead, a batch of Yerba Mate slowly steeps to life. Yerba Mate is a tea made of the leaves …

Native Son: Two Cedars and a Well

By Steven Chamblee • January 17, 2017

Got a wild hair and headed south on 281 to Blanco, hung a hard left. I was headed to that little sweet spot in the Texas Hill Country called …

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