Morning on the Blanco. Let’s walk upstream along a little stretch of River Road just west of Wimberley, Texas. Another late September dawn slowly brightens what little water still pools in wide shallows, riffles over corrugated limestone riverbed, and squeezes through a last narrow channel under the far bank.

Pleasant Valley Spring (PVS) is the largest documented spring in the Hill Country's Trinity Aquifer system.

There’s an old proverb, “Variety is the spice of life.” And what does that have to do with land stewardship? A lot!

At 5:30 p.m. on September 4, about two dozen Mississippi Kites swooped, swirled, dipped, and dived through the street.