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We Built This City: Historical Austin Materials
We built this city. Not on rock ’n’ roll. But rather on Butler Brick, Calcasieu Lumber and Austin White Lime. With a little help from Texas Granite and various skilled artisans working in iron, glass and other basic building materials. If your Central Texas house, church, school or place of ...
7 ways to create a gorgeous outdoor room
Revel in the sights and scents of spring on a patio or in a garden corner decked out in comfy interior style
Easy green: Fire up an ecofriendly barbecue
Lose the paper plates — and the guilt — with these tips for barbecues and outdoor parties that are kinder to the earth
7 ways to create a gorgeous outdoor room
It's spring! Long days, sunshine, birds, barbecues, flowers! For the next six months or so, it's outside time (sorry, people in the Northeast; your time will come). Which means, of course, that you should have an outdoor room, a place where you can do all the things you do in ...
DIY Under $10: reusing plastic Easter eggs
Let’s face it. I am a word person, so any time I get to incorporate the English language with a DIY project I am all in. Easter is this weekend and after the baskets have been filled with candy and the eggs have been found, you may be left wondering ...
The Wildflower Center’s greenest thumb
Even before the Lady Bird Wildflower Center opened in 1995, Paul Reinartz Jr. was there.Tall, creased, working without wasted motion, the retired nuclear weapons officer and master gardener moved thousands of rocks and prepared the ground for the botanical wonders that were to come.Earlier this week, Reinartz, 79, passed the ...
Expecting the unexpected in Austin hoods
At the edge of Circle C, three steep hills surface above a creek. Around them winds a five-mile trail. Obeying signs and avoiding collisions, hikers go one way, bikers the other. The Slaughter Creek Preserve Trail, with its rough-hewn 1860s Trautwein Homestead, popped up during 12 months exploring Central Texas ...
How to host an Oscar viewing party
How will you know if you like Naomi Watts’ dress at the Academy Awards unless your friends tell you that you do? That’s just one reason to gather people at your home, to all sit and dish as you watch the entire evening of the Oscars. This year’s televised event ...
Green Living: Holiday gift ideas for the home
Finding the right gift this holiday season for a family member or friend who lives an eco-friendly lifestyle may be becoming a little easier because more furniture, accessories and products tout green features or benefits. When the recipient is serious about design or wants to display unusual items made of ...
Cooler temperatures, wetter weather bring fall colors to Central Texas
Autumn has always been my favorite season. As a child in the suburbs of Chicago, I marveled at the way leaf on limb would slowly shed its calming green coat then explode — seemingly overnight — into a fireworks display of bright yellows, brilliant reds and oranges, and deep, dark ...
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