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To SATURDAY, May 15 Long Hill Girl Scout Troops 2169 and 2211 are working on their Silver Award, collecting now through Saturday, May 15, clothing and toiletries for an orphanage in Haiti that was at the epicenter of the earthquake in January. Collection of items will continue through Saturday, May 15. Collection boxes will be at: grades 6-8 Central Middle School, grades K-8 St. Vincent de Paul …

Wildflowers of Texas $12.80 …

Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of the Texas Hill Country: A Field Guide, Second Edition (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) $15.37 If you imagine the Texas Hill Country solely as dry limestone slopes of cedar and scrub oak, prepare to have your eyes opened. The Edwards Plateau, upon which the Hill Country sits, is also a land of lush cypress-lined streams, diverse thickets, and shady hardwood bottomlands. Edged by canyonlands and intersected by creeks, these rocky hills support an abundance of trees, shrubs, and vines that pr…

Grasses of the Texas Hill Country: A Field Guide (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) $14.82 DESCRIPTION: This photographic guide to grasses gives all who have been frustrated trying to identify these difficult plants an easy-to-use, visually precise, and information-packed field guide to seventy-seven native and introduced species that grow in the Texas Hill Country and beyond. With a blade of grass in hand, open this book and find: Handy thumb guides to seedhead type, the most visibl…