Features

GREAT GARDENS
Fort Worth Japanese Garden
By Thomas Korosec

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin
By Sheryl Smith-Rodgers

Bayou Bend Gardens, Houston
Tyler Municipal Rose Garden
By Kaye Northcott

A FULL PLATE
By Ellen Sweets
Always-in-demand Hoover Alexander dishes up simple, savory food that tastes like home.

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Departments

POWER TALK
Letters to the Editor; safety and energy tips; co-op people, places and trivia.

ELECTRIC NOTES
Energy tips and safety information.

POWER CONNECTIONS
SUN SHINES ON TEXAS SCHOOLS
By Carol Moczygemba
Several schools in co-op service areas have already signed on to solar projects with the State Energy Conservation Office’s (SECO) “Texas Solar for Schools” program, initiated in 2001.

OBSERVATIONS
A HARD ROW TO HOE
By Camille Wheeler
Lessons I learned in the summer cotton fields back home.

TEXAS USA
MAKE THE MOST OF RAINY DAYS
By Clay Coppedge
Rain barrels can tide you over during especially dry times.

FOOTNOTES IN TEXAS HISTORY
FLIGHTS OF FANCY
By K.A. Young
A cross between a Conestoga wagon and Sally Field’s headdress in “The Flying Nun,” the Ezekiel Airship—the original was built by the Rev. Burrell Cannon—is a tangible reminder that Texans may have invented heavier-than-air flight before the Wright brothers’ 1903 takeoff landed in the pages of history.

RECIPES
FROM LOATHING TO LOVING
By Kevin Hargis
Many of our tastes evolve as we mature, so foods we loathed as 5-year-olds might actually seem delicious to us as adults.

FOCUS ON TEXAS
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Reader photo contest. Getting caught with a hand in the cookie jar has never been this much fun.

AROUND TEXAS
Statewide Event Listings.

HIT THE ROAD
SAN AUGUSTINE TO NACOGDOCHES
By Stephan Myers
Travel one of Texas’ oldest roads to visit two of its oldest settlements.