Brief book review: Hill Country Landowner’s Guide

Hill Country Landowner’s Guide by Jim Stanley The Hill Country, like our own Palo Pinto Country, is witnessing an influx of new landowners coming from all parts of the country. In most cases they are buying small to medium properties in rural areas. Many of these new landowners have little experience managing ranchland. This handbook …

Beautiful, blooming landscapes without watering all summer

Carol Feldman is a veteran landscape architect whose practice is focused on water-conserving, sustainable landscapes. She will speak at the Gordon Community Center on Sunday, July 15, at 2 pm. After last summer’s brutal drought in Texas, we are all learning to use even less water in our landscapes. Conserving water outdoors can significantly lower …

Brief book review: Hellhound on his trail

The subtitle of this book by Hampton Sides is “The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin”  which pretty much sums up the action. This is a suspense thriller which also happens to be a true story.   In 1968 the escaped convict and assassin James Earl Ray managed …

Brief book review: “A Visit From the Goon Squad”

Each chapter of the new novel by Jennifer Egan is really its own short story.   Each story is told from the point of view of a different character but each character is connected in some way (sometimes tenuously) to Bennie Salazar, a teenage bass player in a mediocre punk rock band who matures into …