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Victoria Heckenlaible
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Eeyores party hosts lively guests
April 26, 2010
Crowds of fairy wings, tutus and an occasional look-a-like “Winnie the Pooh” character headed down to the heart of Pease Park on Saturday. Tribal drumming became more distinct and fiesta-style, tissue-paper flowers decorated every tree and shrub in sight.
Ride on yonder to the cowboy capital of Texas
April 23, 2010
When you turn off Highway 1604 onto Texas State Highway 16 toward Bandera, don’t even try to resist the urge to put on some Texas country western music. Bon Iver matched the rain’s pitter-patter as I zipped past general San Antonio, but as soon as I turned off that four-lane highway, anything other than a country twang seemed damn inappropriate. Johnny Cash’s voice soon serenaded me about Texas thunderstorms — “’Cause they’ve got to ride forever on that range up in the sky ... Yippee yi yay. Yippee yi oh. Ghost riders in the sky.”
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