C enizo Not es
by Carolyn Brown Zniewski, publisher and Danielle Gallo, editor
F
irst and foremost:
Congratulations
to our editor,
Danielle, father Bob
and Big Sister Daisy
Jayne as they welcome
their new baby girl,
Bobbie June, into this
world. Hello Bobbie
June, we are glad to
have you here!
I am surely glad to see spring has finally
sprung. We had a little too much frozen rain
for my taste. On the flip side, the wild flowers
are running riot all across the land and the
aloes and cacti in my yard are almost twice the
size they were last year, so I shouldn’t com-
plain. The farmers’ markets are open and
bursting with the very best produce and prod-
ucts our communities have to offer.
Folks are back on their porches and patios
at cocktail time, enjoying each other’s compa-
ny and the outrageously beautiful sunsets. It’s
time for spring cleaning and leaving all the
windows open to blow the dust and cobwebs
out of the house.
The spring issue of our esteemed magazine
has a great collection of articles and stories
which should help blow the winter cobwebs
out of your brain. The 2014 – 2015 season is
full of anniversaries. Big Bend National Park
celebrates its 70th year, Sul Ross Theater cel-
ebrates 50 years of great productions and the
Wilderness Act was signed 50 years ago. We
recall the Sanderson flood which was 50 years
ago this year and last July we celebrated 75
years of research and discoveries at the
McDonald Observatory. Now that the weath-
er is warm I know you will be busy with life.
All the same I hope you take plenty of time to
enjoy our latest issue.
T
Iris V. Korus, D.D.S.
yping this as I
am with a snooz-
ing two-week-
old on my lap, I can’t
help but ruminate over
the newness of all things
spring in the Big Bend.
Much like having a
newborn, the changing
of the seasons out here
in Far West Texas is a
true delight, peppered with disruptions. Mild
sunny days give way without warning to freez-
ing rain and incessant winds, and once again
the blossoms on my apricot tree have capitu-
lated to the fickle assaults of spring.
Apparently no one has explained to apricots
the West Texas rule about not attempting a
garden until after Easter.
As the intemperate weather finally settles
into the long warm season, it’s reassuring to
consider all the Big Bend institutions that have
weathered the decades of flood and drought,
population boom and bust, to see the turning
of the 21st century. This issue features some of
those organizations, which have thrived (like
the Theatre of the Big Bend) and sometimes
survived (like Sanderson after the great flood.)
As the vultures return to air their wings on
fence posts and signs, and the wildflowers
poke their cheerful heads through the caliche,
and the Spring Breakers throng to remind us
of the wonders of the Trans-Pecos we some-
times take for granted, it’s good to remember
that the harshest winters still give way to
rebirth, and newness, and the return of the
familiar. The handiwork of our pioneers, be
they the workers of the CCC in the National
Park, the frontier settlers on the border or the
educators, artists and musicians who make our
region so rich and unique, reminds us of how
blessed we are to be residents in, and stewards
of, this landscape and these communities.
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