Features

Over the past 12 months, the Price Center Arts Committee has overseen the installation of 10 new pieces of permanent outdoor art in the center’s showcase garden. A special outdoor reception celebrating all the art is set for Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. The event is free and open to all, and live music by Gary Taylor and light refreshments will also be featured.

Swallowtails were early at The Garden Guy’s house this year. Thank goodness I had Superbena verbenas in full bloom. It is as if they had been given the task of announcing the arrival of spring and the butterfly season. March 22, I photographed an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Superbana Royale Chambray verbena.

ZACH Theatre announces three of the 2022–23 Season productions in addition to the return of Austin’s holiday tradition, Dave Steakley’s adaptation of Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol.”

The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment will hold its annual Spring Lake Earth Day Festival Saturday, April 23 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The festival, which will be held at the headwaters of the San Marcos River, is a free, family-friendly event that allows the community to join together to celebrate the earth.

Q. What exactly is NATO? How does it work and how do countries join? Why is Ukraine not a member?

The Texas State Galleries will present “Illusions of Reverie,” a group exhibition featuring 18 artists within the School of Fine Arts and Design. These artists are working across various media such as painting, sculpture, video, photography, and drawing.

EmilyAnn Theatre in Wimberley will host its annual Butterfly Festival on April 23, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Baby birds and deer fawns are most often picked up by well-meaning citizens.

What birds are you most likely to see in our neck of the woods?

Recently I stumbled across a plant recipe called ‘This is the Life.’ Not only was it a collection of some of my favorite plants, but was like a wake-up call to an old favorite, the Persian Shield. Known botanically as Strobilanthes dyerianus, it is native to Myanmar and has 8-inchlong leaves that are iridescent in shades of purple, lilac and pink with purplemaroon on the undersides. If those colors aren’t awesome enough, the foliage looks as though it has a light coat of silver electroplated to the leaf.