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My journey this week took me to a memory from long ago when I experienced a faith challenge.

SAN MARCOS PUBLIC LIBRARY

We have a winner! Suzanne H. Leighton, of San Marcos, has submitted the winning poem in my poetry contest. As you may recall, the only requisites were the poem should be reasonably short, about birds and/or nature and should rhyme. I had a hard time choosing a winner from all the excellent submissions.

Mardi Gras is a period of revelry that takes place on the Tuesday prior to the start of the Christian season of Lent. Mardi Gras, French for “Fat Tuesday,” is celebrated in various regions of the world, but perhaps nowhere are celebrations as festive as in New Orleans, where the French-Creole culture mingles with the parades, brass bands, tossed beads, and all around good fun and great food.

Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series of features celebrating the life and artwork of San Marcos-born artist Bill Hutson.

Texas State University’s Division of Dance presents STREAM in Motion 7.0 in the Harrison Performing Arts Center on Feb. 28 and March 1 at 9 a.m.

There is not a gardener I meet who doesn’t crave plants that are all about blooms, birds and butterflies. Shoot add bees to it and you would have a surefire award winner. The Dallas Arboretum has one of the superior plant trials in the country and they gave the award for most Pollinator Friendly Perennial to Rockin’ Playin’ the Blues salvia.