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Suzy Mallard Moehring

I needed a trip to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in far South Austin. The truth is I needed some inspiration.

These freezes have played havoc with my gardens. I gave up carpet grass a couple of summers ago – what with the drought and two dogs who love to run in the backyard – so my backyard is full of native plants: bushes, berries, ornamental trees, grasses, year-round bloomers loved by the birds, bees, and butterflies. But now, in the deep of what is called in song and poem “the bleak midwinter,” the gardens are not all that garden-y.

I have a pile of pulled up passionflow-er vines that looks like a bale of hay. The chile pequin is a sea of dead yellow against the wood fence. The Texas lantana is huge arching boughs of dried, brown leaves. The American beautyberry has a few dried berries on its leafless limbs. And the coral berry is working hard to keep a few lively looking leaves among its bright berries.

I spent an hour wandering the grounds of Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center recently – a cold, blustery, semi-sunny af-ternoon – and was rewarded with glimpses of what was to come in the spring and the

beauty of what is in this coldest, bleakest part of our Central Texas year. Much of what I saw at this magical place is what we see all over the Texas Hill Country right about now.

Grasses are the most beautiful things on the grounds right now. As I came through the entryway, the low, bright sun made seed heads in a little meadow looked as though they were glowing. And a huge, deep-ringing chime hanging in the entryway tolled the windy day along with the grasses swinging in the wind. That chime was just about my only com-panion at the Wildflower Center on that late Sunday afternoon.

My favorite place is the Display Gar-den between the Hill Country Stream and the Butterfly Garden. Every plot is a dif-ferent theme in the Display Garden, and I was rewarded on this visit with lots of ideas for my gardens – ideas that would stay green in a re-do of this Hill Country weather that has bounced us day-to-day from parkas and gloves to flip flops and T-shirts. Agarita and its pointy leaves and red berries, damianita with its strong ce-dar smell and long-lasting yellow blooms.

My visit became a challenge to find growing green, and in doing that I realized that I have a lot of the same growing green in my backyard and front yard gardens: asters and goldenrod going to seed but with a corona of new green leaves at ground level; little leaflets of winecup and bluebonnet spreading out flat on the ground as their roots get a good strong hold over winter; woolly ironweed and purple coneflower still offering their seed-pods to birds while new growth peeps above the ground for summer blooms.

Maybe my gardens aren’t as bad as I thought. Maybe they are just what they are supposed to be in this season: quiet, waiting for new growth, gathering strength underneath, poised for their next season.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is at 4801 La Crosse Avenue in South Aus-tin, just south of the intersection of Loop 1 and Slaughter Lane. Llano native Nettie Plueckhahn will show her watercolors and acrylics of Hill Country landscapes, colorful florals, and still life pieces at the center starting in February through May 26 in a show called “Art of Nature.”

WIMBERLEY H Native son Dylan Meek returns from New York City for a re-union concert Thursday, February 6, at Wimberley United Methodist Church.

Since his last concert in Wimberley three years ago, Dylan has had the op-portunity to perform with some of the world’s best living jazz musicians and at a multitude of diverse venues such as Jazz Cruise 2012, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, and the African American Muse-um in Philadelphia.

Dylan has worked with legendary bassist Reggie Workman (former bassist of John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Art Blakey, Cedar Walton, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, Roy Haynes) and has shared the stage with drummer Theloni-ous Monk Jr., Roy Hargrove, Richard Bouldger, Alex Foster, Alex Han, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, and Marcus Printup and others.

Now 23, Dylan is releasing his offi-cial debut album “And When” with great jazz veterans drummer Gregory Hutchinson and bassist Ben Wolfe.

“Dylan Meek is one of the up and coming talents of the modern music scene. He’s a virtuoso pianist, fresh sounding composer and soulful singer.

His first album illuminates all his talents and is the first shot across the bow of his upcoming long and suc-cessful career,” says Michael Wolff, jazz pia-nist, composer and producer.

FYI • Dylan Meek will perform in the main sanctuary, across the hall from Susanna’s Kitchen at Wimberley United Methodist Church Feb-ruary 6. Doors open at 7 pm, music at 7:30 pm. Early arrival is encour-aged, as Dylan’s prior Wimberley shows have been standing room only. Tickets are $15 donation at the door (free for students). Dylan’s CD “And When” will be available at the Wimberley reunion concert and Dylan will sign copies fol-lowing the show. The CD is also available on iTunes and Amazon.com. For more information, email [email protected]. You can follow Dylan at www.facebook.com/dylanmeekmusic.

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•Cover: (See story, Page 6.) Male Eastern Bluebird. Photo by John Park. Explore the Bluebird Nestbox Nature Trail; enjoy hiking, biking, exploring and more at new nature trails on 250-acre Indian Blanket Ranch (located 10 miles west of Utopia, 5 miles east of Garner State Park on Farm Market 1050). Inset Left David and Bailey Fink take in the idyllic view during their hike on Indian Blanket Ranch. Photo by Kelley Fink. Inset Center Hideaway Cabin (at Indian Blanket Ranch), nostalgic 1800s style property furnished in antiques. Photo by LeAnn Sharp. Inset rIght Biking the Indian Blanket Ranch nature trails. Photo by TJ and Carla Jones. www.friolodging.com.

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Alexandra’s House, a traditional Bed-and-Breakfast situated mid-way between the shopping malls

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Reed and Rosemary Lyday’s master plan always included having a B&B in their home, which was custom built in 2008 with that future goal in mind.

This year marks the four year anni-versary since Alexandra’s House opened for business in February 2010.

Named after Rosemary, whose mid-dle name is Alexandra, the B&B accom-modates a total of six guests in three indi-vidual suites that are named after the couple’s granddaughters and niece – Di-ana, Ashley and Emma.

Before moving to Wimberley, Rose-mary owned a restaurant in Houston where she honed her culinary and busi-ness skills. Along with that valuable ex-perience, her artistic talents and natural hospitality are put to good use in the daily operation of a successful B&B. “I enjoy meeting new people and making them feel welcome,” she says.

The number of B&Bs in this country began to rise dramatically in the late 1970’s with greater interest in historic preservation; however, the custom of opening one’s home to travelers goes back to the earliest days of colonial America when inns were few and wayfarers de-pended on the kindness of strangers for a meal and bed for the night.

While times have certainly changed since the horse and carriage era, the lure of the B&B as a more personal alternative to the standard motel experience harkens back to those early days. Many guests en-joy the personal touches in décor and din-

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For cozy ambience updated with 21st century amenities like internet and cable, Alexandra’s House provides just the right mixture of old and new.

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The interior of the house features an open design, wood floors, numerous windows, and a long wide center hall lighted with hand-crafted blown glass sconces from the nearby Wimberley Glass Works.

Every room is beautifully furnished with original art, antiques, rugs, photo-graphs, heirloom quilts, and books. Rosemary is a talented artist and her paintings are displayed throughout the house. Her great grandfather, Abbott H. Thayer (1849-1921), was an eminent American artist and naturalist noted for landscapes and portraits, especially his idealized winged “angel” portraits.

Although Thayer’s original paint-ings are now in museums from Chicago to Washington DC to New York City, Rosemary honors her famous ancestor and enhances the décor at Alexandra’s House with framed prints of his sketches and paintings.

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Rosemary in the kitchen preparing lem-on sauce for the ricotta pancakes that she will serve for breakfast the following morning.

The pancakes, one of the specialties at Alexandra’s House and the second course of the gourmet breakfast, follow-ing freshly baked scones and fruit com-pote. Everything is delicious. The pan-cakes are feather-light and topped with the lemon sauce and blueberries, served with crisp savory bacon strips.

One guest takes a picture of the ele-gant presentation to send to the relative he’s visiting for the holidays.

The photo captures the essence of a stay at Alexandra’s House – wonderful food, beautiful house, friendly hosts – and the wish that we could stay just a little while longer.

FYI • Alexandra’s House is just off Ranch Road 12, between San Marcos and Wimberley, on 250 Hugo Road. Call 512-667-0107 or email [email protected]. For more information, and to see photographs of the house and grounds, check room availability and prices, visit the website at www.alexandrashousetx.com.

TOP LEFT and TOP RIGHT The lovely exterior of Alexandra’s House. BOTTOM LEFT Alexandra’s House’s well appointed interior. BOTTOM RIGHT Rosemary’s perfectly delectable pancakes. Photos courtesy Alexandra’s House.


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rian and writer —the two men owned neighboring ranches north of Leakey. Their children, An-nie Auld and Bob Davis, married and bought the land that became Indian Blan-ket Ranch in 1903. The two had eight children, of which Lora B. was the sec-ond youngest.

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A deck overlooks the wet weather Blanket Creek — LeAnn and Anthony were married in this very spot 21 years ago. A rustic cedar picket fence surrounds the home, adding to its charm. “My dad built the cedar picket fence around the yard,” LeAnn explains. “ It was an old fence someone in Leakey took down and he salvaged it. The pickets were more than 100 years old in 1974.”

Hideaway, a nostalgic 1800s style cabin furnished with antiques (just 400 yards from Bluebird Hill, across the creek and through the trees), provides another relaxing getaway and sleeps up to seven guests.

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