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Labor Day weekend, Bandera turns back the clock to the wild West days of old—back to cattle drives,

rodeo skills, and Native American Indi-ans—along with a grand celebration of Bandera’s 162nd birthday—during Cele-brate Bandera August 29-31.

Bandera was one of the major staging areas for thousands of herds—totaling more than six million head of longhorn cattle—driven in massive cattle drives up the Great Western Trail to markets in Kan-sas and Nebraska during the late 1800s.

At Mansfield Park Friday night, Au-gust 29, bring the kids for a chance to par-ticipate in the Hoof ‘n’ Foot Horseless Ranch Rodeo. This fun event for the whole family includes cowboy skills and creative team work to boot. You might even get to dress up a goat!

Celebrate Bandera proudly presents the Circle of Life Inter-tribal Powwow which includes Native American dancers from all over the U.S. Gates open Friday evening, admission is free. The Powwow continues through Sunday. Events include dance competitions; performances by in-ternationally known Hoop Dancer Lyn-don Alec; and special Hand and Drum and flute demonstrations. Native Ameri-can artisans will sell their wares and Indi-an fry bread will be abundant.

Saturday morning, head out to Mans-field Park for some really fast action by the Cowboy Capital Mounted Shooters, as they ride in high-speed horse competi-tions.

Following, the State of Texas will pay homage to Bandera with dedication of a Historical Marker explaining the town’s position as the “gathering place” for the Great Western Trail.

Around 9 am, a cowboy breakfast of biscuits and gravy will be served, and a “John Wayne” toss your hat on a weather vane competition will be held because…well, just because that’s the kind of thing a cowboy would do.

Winner of the hat toss will receive a 40

X Cowboy Hat donated by The Rockin C Western Wear of Bandera and American Hat Company.

About 9:30 am, grab a breakfast taco at Lowe’s Market parking lot, where the ex-citement begins at Cow Patty Bingo, with great prizes and cash to boot, determined by the proper drop of a cow patty. Folks then gather for the Longhorn Cattle Drive up Main Street, followed by the Cowboy Capital of the World Parade, with more cowboys and horses than you can imagine.

Afterwards, watch the Bandera Cattle Company Saturday as they present gun-fights at Heritage Plaza, strolling Cowboy singers, a roper or two and gentle horses for petting and Longhorn steers ready to pose for a photo with you. Visit the arts and crafts booths on the Courthouse lawn, try your hand at chicken ropin’ or enter the preliminaries for the cow patty toss.

Saturday night at Mansfield Park, it’s the “Hottest Eight Seconds of the Year” at the National Professional Bull Rider’s Challenge. Enjoy action galore with per-formances by World Champion Trick Rop-er Keven Fitzpatrick, World Champion Gun Twirler Pistol Packin’ Paula, and Na-tive American Hoop Dancer Lyndon Alec. Late Saturday evening you can take in great country swing in the “Kings of West-ern Swing” concert.

Sunday morning, gather at the Medi-na River in City Park for a cowboy break-fast offered up by the Western Heritage Cowboy Church, followed by preaching and cowboy gospel music.

There will also be gospel music at the Courthouse, the Arts and Craft Show and a lot more of the Bandera Cattle Company. Don’t forget the Circle of Life Powwow and finals of the National Professional Bull Rider’s Challenge with the added excite-ment of the South Texas Bull Fighting Tour. There’s plenty to celebrate this Labor Day weekend in Bandera!

FYI • Celebrate Bandera is all about Cowboys and In-dians – come live it with us. For complete event schedules and ticket information, visit the web site at www.celebrate-bandera.com or call 830-796-4447.

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What a sight! Y.O. wranglers drive a Longhorn herd into Bandera, kicking off the Cowboy Capital Parade Saturday morning, August 30. Photo courtesy Celebrate Bandera.

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August 2014 Volume 25 • Number 3 • ISSN: 1524-2315

Entire contents copyright © 2014 by TD Austin Lane, Inc. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced in any fashion without the written consent of the publisher.

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•Cover It’s a weekend of Wild West fun for the family Labor Day Weekend, August 29-31 — at Celebrate Bandera (See story, page 2). Don’t miss the Circle of Life Pow Wow, the National Professional Rodeo Bullrider’s Challenge, live action performances by the Cowboy Capital Mounted Shooters, a herd of Longhorn cattle driven right down Bandera’s Main Street and much more. Photos Courtesy Celebrate bandera.

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sites and the famed Blue Hole, one of the most beautiful natural swimming areas in Texas. Robin McCullough, owner and manager of the popular cafe, says “It’s a gathering place, somewhat centered in the heart of the town, where people can drop by for coffee and breakfast and conversation.”

There’s no doubt about it – Wimberley Cafe is where the locals go. A group of lo-cal women meets there every Thursday to play mahjong. It’s the kind of place where some regular patrons drop in a couple of times a day and can order “the usual” and the server will know what to bring.

The cafe seats more than 100 people, including the additional outside covered dining area, which also happens to be pet-friendly, so it’s not unusual to observe a well-behaved dog enjoying the day out with his family.

Wimberley Cafe stands on the histori-cally significant site of one of the earliest buildings in the town, the Ranch House Cafe, an architectural delight that was constructed in the 1930s using more than 40 loads of colored rocks carried in from all over the state, thick polished cypress and cedar, and hand-whittled mesquite.

The first Wimberley Market Days were held right there on the square, in what is now the parking lot for the cafe and surrounding shops, where people sold everything from pickles and jellies to fresh vegetables, pottery, and quilts from their pickup trucks.

The original Ranch House Cafe burned down in the 1960s.

Rebuilt in 1967, although without the massive amounts of wood and rock, it was once more the hub of the action in town, serving as a grocery store through the 1970s, then an ice cream parlor and real es-tate office, and again as a cafe.

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The food at Wimberley Cafe isn’t gour-met – no arugula or smoked salmon and nary a truffle in sight – but that’s just fine with those who eat there. The food is tra-ditional southern comfort food along with a few Tex-Mex favorites like quesadillas, migas and taco salad. Their version of tortilla soup is delicious, slightly creami-er than many recipes, basically a chicken soup spiced up with jalapeno pepper and topped with strips of crispy tortilla.

Customers consistently praise the chicken fried steak that’s served Texas style with peppered milk gravy. “We use the best ingredients, some family recipes, and from time to time we’ll add new items to vary the menu selection,” says Robin.

But it’s the tried and true down-home cooking that provides the standards – burg-ers and fries, soups and sandwiches – that keep the patrons happy and coming back for more. Plain or toasted pimento cheese

Robin and Mac McCullough welcome you to the crowd-pleasing Wimberley Cafe, lo-cated right on the Wimberley Square. Photo by Melissa Maxwell Ball.

Tried and true, down-home cooking brings guests by the droves to Wimberley Cafe on the Square. Enjoy breakfast and lunch every day, with extended evening dining on Friday and Saturdays. Photo courtesy Wimberley Cafe.

sandwiches and Frito pie are pleasant re-minders of what were once essential diner fare. However, dieters or anyone con-cerned about cholesterol need not despair. There’s more to the menu than gravy and biscuits and chili cheeseburgers.

Healthy, low fat choices include Rio Chicken either as a sandwich or a salad, with grilled marinated chicken, black beans and corn relish; a hot veggie sand-wich; and a “Reubenesque” sandwich that substitutes a garden burger patty for the traditional corned beef, but keeps the delicious distinctive taste of the original with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and thou-sand island dressing on grilled rye bread.

“Our food is good,” says Robin, “ but it’s the people – the customers and the staff – that make the cafe special. My sis-ter-in-law and son are out there greeting people. It’s a good vibe.”

FYI • Wimberley Cafe is located at 101 Wimberley Square. Hours are Sunday through Thursday, 7 am to 5 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 7 am to 8:30 pm. Plan to ar-rive early or take a number on Market Days (first Saturday of the month March through September) and weekends, especially Sundays when breakfast is served until 1 pm, bringing in larger crowds. For information, call 512-847-3333 or visit the web site at www.wimberleycafe.com.


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Ernie Lee“The Bard of the Blanco”

Once, a long time ago, as a young man, I lay down in the shallow waters of the Blanco River near

the Devil’s Backbone. You may know the place as the Boy Scout camp (ed. note: El Rancho Cima, near Wimberley,).

As a young scout leader with 25 younger charges, things could get pretty hectic. I didn’t live in the Hill Country then; my troop was out of a crowded Houston suburb.

The water was shallow, just past my ears. As I looked up at the incredibly blue Texas sky, the ripples of the water across ancient rocks sang to me. If was as if I could hear the song of centuries. It was so perfect I didn’t want to get up. That moment in time has stuck with me for 40 years, and only recently made it into one of my poems. I still haven’t done it justice. You can read “Devil’s Back-bone” on page 7.

I think we all have those moments in time. What a shame it is that we often do not find some way to capture them. I’ve found poetry is a great way to capture

those sensory “snapshots.” Once cap-tured, they can be remembered, savored and shared.

So, that is the purpose of this column. I hope you will participate with me in sharing your favorite Hill Country mem-ories, observations and the moments fro-zen in your mind.

I want to encourage you to write them down. Poetry is a wonderful medi-um to use for that purpose.

There are many ways to write a poem – none of them wrong. Poems can rhyme or not rhyme, have a rhythm or none at all. What a poem does need is emotion or imagery of some sort. It must stimulate some sensory reaction from the reader. Just as an artist draws a picture with oils or ink, poets draw word pictures.

If you can do that cleverly, and clear-ly enough, you will have created and shared something special that formerly was yours alone.

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Deep in the shadowed canyons of the Devil’s Backbone heightsThe haunted hills reverberate with a thousand years of painWhere Comanche ruled these steep, stepped halls. Beneath the vast and starry nights,Coyote calls echoed from rock faced walls, when the moon would rise again.

The full faced moon can tinge the pearly rock with a creamy shade of light.The turkey gobbles for his mate, and bats swoop and swirl around.The antlered bucks in velvet prongs rear up in practice for the fight.And the wind sings songs the whole night long; exulting in the sound.

Sit with me on a morning ledge and watch the summer storms roll by.The dry earth seems to yearn to touch the healing bliss of rain.With a forked tongue the lightning leaps to cliffs from darkened sky.

The rain rolls down to hueco seeps, and the desert blooms again. Lie in the crystal sparkling stream, with water up to your ears.Hear the rippled history of the stone and tales of ancient men.The song of the Blanco River passed down through all the years.You can lie in the river and shiver when the air is a hundred and ten.

The Whippoorwills in crevassed hills sing songs of countless woesThat denies the beauty of the place, and makes the stone a liar.The fireflies glow on the old Blanco down where the wild rice growsAnd the sotol grow fifteen feet tall, and the agave even higher.

Despite the evil name, and the fractured rock, and the ages of toil and pain,You can stand upon a lofty ledge, and feel the winds of history.There is a beauty in the place that makes you want to come againAnd feel the breath upon your face, and marvel in the mystery.

Devil’s Backbone by Ernie Lee

POETRY, from page 6

where we live, work and play. Send your poems to Ernie Lee at [email protected].

I’ll pull out the best submissions and share them. We’ll talk about why and how those poems worked. We’ll discuss devices used to make them work, such as simile or metaphor.

Don’t be shy. You will be surprised how many people are already writing things down and keeping them hidden. What a tragedy—you never know when something you write may touch some-one else.

If you are a published or practiced poet, help us out by sharing your work and knowledge with us. Give us some insight into your poem. How, why, and what method you chose to express your work. Feel free to correct me, or add to the discussion. I’m pleased and honored to be your host and facilitator.

So, until next time, please enjoy my poem “Devil’s Backbone” and share your insights. And don’t forget to send in your poem about the beautiful Hill Country. I’ll be waiting to read YOU!

About ErniE The Bard of the Blanco, Ernie Lee, is an award-winning Texas poet from Canyon Lake. A song-writer, storyteller, author, and poet of long standing in the region, he is at work on a book-length poem, “The Mes-quite Bean War,” and has published several works in peri-odicals and local newspapers. Ernie loves to visit local schools to talk about the creative process. He has has also published several technical professional books and aca-demic guides related to public procurement for the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin, and UT San Antonio.


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As if staying balanced on a horse’s back as it canters on a lunge line isn’t already hard enough, try it

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Stable owner and vaulting enthusi-ast Melanie Schaubhut says that the sport of vaulting, (“gymnastics and dance on the back of a moving horse”) is much more than just trick riding.

“It helps a rider develop a great ‘seat’,” she explains. “It makes them better riders because of the balance it develops - and it makes them a lot safer riders. I see they don’t bump up and down as much.”

In traditional German riding schools, beginning students learn to sit solidly on the back of a moving horse long before they are ever given the reins, she says. Learning to move in rhythm with the horse should be the first step in riding, Melanie believes. “In this coun-try we have it backwards.”

Practicing vaulting develops core muscles, flexibility and balance, and teaches coordination and discipline, she says. As a result, vaulting is sometimes used as a form of equine therapy for dis-abled and learning-impaired children and adults.

Beginning vaulters practice on large padded barrels before trying their new skills on a moving horse.

While the horse walks or canters in a steady rhythm on a lunge line, the rid-

er “vaults” onto a thick pad on the horse’s back, which has a padded handle attached to the girth (“surcingle”) that the vaulter can grip while performing gymnastic feats.

Some riders come to September Song Stables for recreational vaulting classes, solely to improve their riding “seat” and balance. Melanie recalls a group of wom-en in their fifties who came and, after a little time practicing on the vaulting bar-rels, were able to stand up and balance on a moving horse!

Vaulting is an ancient sport, devel-oped to help Greek and Roman soldiers learn to balance on horseback for battle. Apparatus like the pommel horse, bal-ance beams and parallel bars (today’s gymnastic equipment) were developed to train cavalry soldiers to ride with more balance and in harmony with the horse, Melanie reports with interest.

A fairly new sport in the US, vault-ing came to the US from Europe in the 1950s and 60s, and took hold mainly in California and on the West Coast.

Today it is rapidly gaining populari-ty nationwide, though in Texas, the land of barrel racing and steer roping, there are still only a handful of vaulting clubs and competitions.

Lone Star Vaulters’ trainer, Rosie Brown, who grew up vaulting in Califor-nia and has been training vaulters most of her adult life, was surprised to find so little of the sport happening in Texas when she moved here in 2004.

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KERRVILLE H The Kerr Arts and Cul-tural Center announces a statewide call for artists to participate in the Kerrville Outdoor Painters’ Event featuring plein air painting at selected Hill Country loca-tions October 1-4, followed by an exhibi-tion and sale October 4-25.

The event is open to artists painting in any medium using the plein air tech-nique. Participating artists must paint original works on location during the event using surfaces with stamped regis-tration codes (provided at no charge).

Judge for this year’s Kerrville Out-door Painters’ Event is Phil Bob Borman, a noted Texas artist who works in both 2-D and 3-D media.

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submitted with registration. Artists whose work is posted on a web site may submit URLs of three works for evalua-tion; otherwise three examples of the applicant’s work should accompany the application as JPEG files no larger than 1080 pixels in any width and height. Application and registration informa-tion is available on the KACC website.

Registration is $85; Register by July 31, 2014 to receive an early registration discount fee of $75. Notification of ac-ceptance/rejection will be sent within 30 days of application. Registration fee refunded if application is not accepted.

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as. wgw.com, 512-213-2110.FIRST TUESDAYSBANDERA: Cowboy Capital Opry. Silver Sage Corral Senior Center. 830-796-4969.THIRD TUESDAYSNEW BRAUNFELS: Country Music Show at the Knights of Columbus. 830-629-4547.LEANDER: Low Cost Pet Spay, Neuter and Vaccination. 512-260-3602, ext. 101.EVERY WEDNESDAYDRIPPING SPRINGS: Farmers Mar-ket. 3 pm to 7 pm at the Highway 290 and Ranch Road 12. March to Decem-ber, rain or shine. www.cityofdripping-springs.com.WIMBERLEY: Farmers’ Market. Fresh produce, fresh breads, much more at the Senior Citizen’s Activity Center on Ranch Road 12. 512-264-1637.THIRD WEDNESDAYSDRIPPING SPRINGS: Cook Off Club meets at 6:30 pm in the VFW Hall. [email protected] WEDNESDAYSWIMBERLEY: Hill Country Neighbors. 10:30 am at the Wimberley Community Center. 512-847-2849.EVERY THURSDAYDRIPPING SPRINGS: Coffee House with Light Dinners, Decadent Desserts and Open Mic. 6 pm to 9 pm. Thyme and Dough. 512-894-0001.DRIPPING SPRINGS: Thursdays with Doug Moreland and the Flying Ar-madillos at Mercer Street Dance Hall. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com.

WIMBERLEY: Cafe’ Susanna. Serv-ing lunch to the community from 11 am to 1 pm in the Fellowship Hall of Wimberley United Methodist Church, located at Ranch Road and County Road 1492. Good ole’ church cookin’ just like your grandma made. Entree’, two sides, bread/crackers, ice tea, and myriad of decadent desserts for only $9. Good food and fellowship. www.

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FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAYCANYON LAKE: Noon Lions meet at Canyon Lake Golf Club. 830-899-4406.THIRD THURSDAYWIMBERLEY: Susanna’s Kitchen Cof-feehouse presents some of the best in Central Texas’ musical talent. Concerts held at Wimberley United Methodist Church, Corner Ranch Road 12 and County Road 1492. Doors open by 7 pm, concert at 7:30 pm. Free child care; tamales, pizza, pie, coffee, soft drinks available. Tickets at door. For listing of performers, visit the web site at www.wimberleyumc.com.EVERY THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAYWIMBERLEY: Live Music at Linda’s Fine Foods. Delicious food, beautiful music at 500 Farm Market 2325. 512-847-5464. www.facebook.com/Lin-dasFineFoods.EVERY FRIDAYBLANCO: Tasting Room Open and Brewery Tours at Real Ale Brewing Company. www.realalebrewing.com.GRUENE: Friday Afternoon Club at Gruene Hall. Broadcast live KNBT-92.1 FM Radio. 4 pm to 7 pm. 830-629-5077.WIMBERLEY: Bingo. VFW Hall on Ja-cobs Well Road. 512-847-6441.WIMBERLEY: Preschool Story Time at the Wimberley Village Library. Bring your little ones at 10:30 am. 512-847-2188, www.wimberleylibrary.org.WIMBERLEY: Celebrate Recovery. In the First Baptist Church Youth Build-ing. 7 pm to 9 pm, with pizza at 6:30 pm. 512-847-9035.SECOND FRIDAYCASTROVILLE: Friday Night Fever. Cars, trucks, bikes, food, shopping. 6 pm to 10 pm. Lundquist Automotive. www.castroville.com, 830-931-2479.WIMBERLEY: Wimberley Area Parkin-sons Association Meeting. Chapel of The Hills Church, 11 am. 512-847-7953.FOURTH FRIDAYBANDERA: Fourth Friday Jam. At the Silver Sage Corral starting at 6:30 pm. Call 830-796-4969 for information.EVERY FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAYFREDERICKSBURG: Rockbox Theater. Variety, music, and rock ‘n roll show, great family fun. 866-349-6688.EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAYWIMBERLEY: Live Music. Linda’s Fine Foods. www.lindaallencatering.com.EVERY SATURDAYAUSTIN: Austin Farmers Market. Re-public Square. 512-236-0074.AUSTIN: Sunset Valley Farmers Mar-ket. Barton Creek Mall. 512-280-1976.BANDERA: Flying L Ranch Chuck Wagon Dinner. Enjoy barbecue, wagon rides, roping lessons, hat and pistol branding, archery, old fashioned pho-tos, a cowboy stage show, gunslingers, line dancing and entertainment. www.flyingl.com, 800-292-5134.COMFORT: Comfort Area Farmer’s Market. 8 am to 1 pm. Comfort Park on Highway 27.

COMFORT: Wine Tastings at High’s Café. 4 pm to 7 pm. www.highscafeand-store.com.DRIPPING SPRINGS: Texas Music and Wine. www.solaroestate.com.FISCHER: Jackson Open Air Market. Local artists and farmers, food, fun and entertainment. 9 am to 5 pm. 6341 Farm Market 32. 830-935-2781. NEW BRAUNFELS: Canyon Trail Chuckwagon Supper and Cowboy Mu-sic Show. 830-626-8200, 888-408-7245.WIMBERLEY: Tour Jacob’s Well. Hear stories about floods, divers, experience beauty of spring that started town. 10 am. www.jacobswellspring.org.WIMBERLEY: Arnosky Family Farms Market. Fresh flowers, specialty chees-es, vegetables, more. Ranch Road 2325 and Highway 165. 830-833-5428.FIRST SATURDAYBANDERA: Market Days. Courthouse Square. 830-796-4447.BANDERA: First Saturday Book Sale. Public Library. 830-796-4213.DRIFTWOOD: Driftwood Communi-ty Club meets to enhance community spirit of Driftwood. Dinner, fun at 7 pm. www.driftwoodtx.org 512-829-5101DRIPPING SPRINGS: Low Cost Pet Vaccinations. At Tractor Supply on Highway 290. 512-858-7229.WIMBERLEY: Market Days. (March through December). Everything you can’t live without at Lions Field. 475-plus booths, free admission. 7 am to 4 pm. www.shopmarketdays.com.FIRST AND THIRD SATURDAYWIMBERLEY: Toastmasters Public Speaking and Leadership Club. 10:30 am. Visitor’s Center. 512-913-4804.SECOND SATURDAYCASTROVILLE: Market Trail Days. Houston Square. 830-539-2316.THIRD SATURDAYMARBLE FALLS: Bluegrass, Country and Western, and Gospel. 6 pm to 10 pm. Boys and Girls Club. 830-898-1784.EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAYROUND MOUNTAIN: Tours at West-cave Preserve. www.westcave.org.SECOND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AUSTIN: Tours of Bright Leaf Natural Area. www.brightleaf.org.FOURTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAYJohnson City: Market Days. Food, artisans, vendors and more. 830-868-7684, JohnsonCityTexasChamber.com.AUGUST 1GRUENE: Radney Foster. Live music at Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com.AUGUST 1-2DRIPPING SPRINGS: Texas Senior Pro Rodeo. Exciting competition at Drip-ping Springs Ranch Park Event Center. www.tspra.com, 512-398-5209.KERRVILLE: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at Playhouse 2000. www.caillouxtheater.com, 830-896-9393.AUGUST 1-3AUSTIN: The World at War, 1914-1918.

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Learn about the history of the war through the archives of men and wom-en who witnessed watershed events which ushered in the world as we know it. Harry Ransom Center. www.hrc.utexas.edu.AUGUST 1-9WIMBERLEY: Shakespeare Under the Stars presents “Richard III.” EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens. www.emilyann.org, 512-847-6969.AUGUST 1-16INGRAM: “Red, White and Tuna.” En-joy fireworks and fun in the land where the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. The Point Theatre, 120 Point Theatre Road. www.hcaf.com, 830-367-5121.AUGUST 1-17AUSTIN: Between Mountains and Sea: Arts of the Ancient Andes. Exhibit fea-tures selection of exceptional objects from some of the most complex coastal societies of the Ancient Andes. Includes woven textiles, modeled ceramic bot-tles, painted vessels and ceramic effi-gies that trace the artistic develop ment of the ancient Paracas, Nasca, Wari, Moche, Chancay and Chimu cultures. Blanton Museum of Art. www.blanton-museum.org.AUGUST 1-24KERRVILLE: Exhibits at the Kerr Arts and Cultural Center. Includes three gal-lery exhibitions: Images, Olva and Glen Hollowell, and Photography. Kerr Arts and Cultural Center. www.kaccker-rville.com, 830-895-2911.AUGUST 1 - SEPTEMBER 21AUSTIN: In the Company of Cats and

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AUGUST 2DRIPPING SPRINGS: Randy Rogers Band. Live music at Nutty Brown Cafe. www.nuttybrown.com.AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 23CEDAR PARK: Austin Steam Train Sat-urday Evening Express. Ride to Ber-tram and enjoy sights and sounds of the railroad, crossing highways, spanning the South San Gabriel River on wooden trestle bridge and rolling through pas-ture land. Cedar Park Depot. www.aus-tinsteamtrain.org, 512-477-8468.AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 23, 30BANDERA: Cowboys on Main. Enjoy a Western display in front of the Ban-dera County Courthouse and strolling entertain ers. Bandera Cattle Company performs historical gunfights at noon and 2 pm. Main Street. www.bandera-cowboycapital.com, 830-796-3045.BANDERA: Flying L Ranch Chuck Wagon Dinner. Barbecue, wagon rides, roping lessons, hat and pistol branding, archery, old-fashioned photos, a cow-boy stage show, gunslingers, line danc-ing and entertainment. Dinner served 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Flying L Ranch, www.flyingl.com, 800-292-5134.AUGUST 5BANDERA: Cowboy Capital Opry. Grand Old Opry-style show features Harriet and Gerry Payne and other art-ists. 7 pm at the Silver Sage Corral. www.silversagecorral.org, 830-796-4969.AUGUST 5, 12, 19GRUENE: Swing Dance Lessons and Two Tons of Steel in Concert. Learn simple, fun East Coast Swing steps in a one-hour class held before Two Ton Tuesday concert. Class starts at 6 pm; band starts at 8:30 pm. Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com, 830-606-1281.AUGUST 6 - SEPTEMBER 12INGRAM: Moveable Feat: The Art-ist Journey. Judged selec tion of works at Hill Country Arts Foundation, 120 Point Theatre Road. www.hcaf.com, 830-367-5121.AUGUST 7SAN MARCOS: Summer in the Park presents Terri Hendrix Band with Lloyd Maines. Free live music on the banks of the San Marcos River. Begins at 7:30 pm. San Marcos Plaza Park, 206 N. C. M. Al-len Parkway. www.smpaa.com.AUGUST 8CASTROVILLE: Friday Night Fever. See a variety of antique and modern cars and trucks on display, and enjoy music, food and shopping. www.cas-troville.com, 830-931-2479. CONCAN: Spazmatics. Live music at House Pasture Cattle Company. www.housepasture.com.GRUENE: Joe King Carrasco. Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com.AUGUST 8-9JUNCTION: Summer Classic Rodeo and Dance. Enjoy horse races, bull rid-ing, nightly dances and live entertain-ment. Hill Country Fair Association Fair Grounds. www.junctiontexas.com.

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AUGUST 29GRUENE: The Texas Jamm Band at Gruene Hall. www.gruenehall.com.AUGUST 29-30BRADY: World Championship Barbe-cue Goat Cook-Off. The longest-run-ning goat cook-off in Texas includes an arts-and-crafts fair, washer-pitching tournament, the Goat Gallop 5K/10K Fun Run and Walk, a street dance and children’s games. Richards Park. www.bradytx.com, 888-577-3491.FREDERICKSBURG: “Today’s Trea-sures, Tomorrow’s Heirlooms” Quilt Show. Judged show features more than 100 quilts, old-fashioned bed turning, vendors, scissor sharpening and a tea room. www.vereinsquiltguild.com, 830-990-4140.AUGUST 29-31BANDERA: Celebrate Bandera (See story, Page 2). Includes a Texas long-horn cattle drive and parade Saturday, arts and crafts, the Bandera Music Hall of Fame, re-enactments on the Medina River, an inter tribal Pow Wow, National Professional Bull Rider’s Challenge and the Kings of Western Swing concert series. Downtown. www.celebrateban-dera.com, 830-796-4447.DRIPPING SPRINGS: Gunner Thames Memorial Rodeo. Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center. 512-665-1459.KERRVILLE: Kerrville Fall Music Fes-tival. Songwriters, wineries, concerts,

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Wimberley Pools & Outdoor Living

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WPD South Austin400 Industrial Blvd • Austin, TX 78745

512-383-4552

WPD San Antonio2450 Brockton St. • San Antonio, TX 78217

210-209-8694

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WPD North Austin9410 Reid Dr. • Austin, TX 78758

512-381-3127

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