Planting Ideas
I have many night-blooming cereus plants in pots. I bring them indoors before it freezes every year. I get new plants from cuttings [Thorny Task, April 2024].
Katherine Allen, Pedernales EC | Burnet
Native flora and fauna should be of great interest to all of us, so it is heartening to hear of people rescuing and protecting them [Thorny Task, April 2024]. And Sheryl Smith-Rodgers’ Seedy Behavior [April 2024] was both entertaining and inspiring. I once rescued a pint of rain lily seeds just days before the city mowed them down.
Paula Stone, Central Texas EC | Fredericksburg
A Budding Friendship
The April issue was a “blooming success.” I loved reading about the employees who went to Guatemala [Currents, Wiring the American Dream], the urgent need to care for our declining native plants [Thorny Task], caring for the less fortunate in Bandera [Holding Promise] and seeing the pictures of pollinators [Focus on Texas].
Your magazine puts the focus squarely on what there is to love about Texas: the place; people; and the vital, tenuous and beautiful connections between them.
Michael Davis, CoServ | Wylie
Haru, a border collie, works on her leaping skills.
Tom Hussey
Don’t Forget Obedience
I appreciated your article on dog agility [Top Dogs, March 2024]. My only issue with the list of dog sports was that no mention of basic obedience or competitive obedience was made.
Obedience is the foundation of all the sports mentioned. If a dog does not have the most basic of obedience commands in its repertoire, all the other things become much harder to teach.
Cindy Hyde, San Bernard EC | Columbus
Around and Around
I skied at Sea-Arama Marineworld in Galveston in the 1970s [The Green Carpet, January 2024]. Occasionally we put on a show at the Shamrock Hilton—in the swimming pool. It required a pretty constant left turn.
Kelley Farmer, Pedernales EC | Dripping Springs
Another Yule Tale
The Best Christmas Gift I Ever Gave [December 2023] reminded me of the wonderful Christmas story by John Henry Faulk, who was from Austin. He was a gifted writer and radio personality in the middle of the 20th century. He read his Christmas story on National Public Radio in 1974, and it became an instant classic.
Gene C. Walker, Tri-County EC | Fort Worth
