by RoadRunner | Jan 21, 2019 | art, nature, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
After the Texas Trail Roundup Sunday walk someone asked us about San Antonio’s “Frog Bridge.” Actually, it’s a TOAD bridge (although everyone calls it the frog bridge. Goes to show what we know.) The city commissioned ceramicist Diana Kersey to...
by RoadRunner | Jan 13, 2019 | art, nature, San Antonio insider
You may have noticed the unusual trail markers in Brackenridge Park. The eastern part of the park has four wooded trails, each about a mile long. The markers at the trailheads are by Susan Budge, who at the time of the trail markers’ creation in 2006 was the...
by RoadRunner | Dec 4, 2017 | nature, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
After the Texas Trail Roundup a few walkers mentioned that parts of the Mission Reach of the Riverwalk — Saturday’s walk — were a little trashy. Oh, the embarrassment! Just the Saturday before, the city had hosted its annual “Basura Bash...
by RoadRunner | Jun 26, 2017 | nature, San Antonio insider
In March, Monarch butterflies leave their winter home in Mexico and head north, some as far as Canada. Many of them stop over in San Antonio to lay their eggs, which become caterpillars and eventually turn into baby Monarchs, which are the butterflies that eventually...
by RoadRunner | Jan 18, 2017 | nature, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
We picked the end of February for the Texas Trail Roundup because we typically have shorts-and-T-Shirt weather while the rest of the country is bundled up in boots and parkas. It’s also the closing days of the world famous Stock Show and Rodeo. But, dang it!...
