TravelAwaits
Jun.3.2021
Most people know that College Station is home to Texas A&M University, but the city is also one of the best places in Texas to dine, sightsee, shop, relax, and learn a bit about world history. Yes all that surprised me, too! Though Aggieland is the city’s baby, College Station is much more than a college town it offers a variety of attractions and unique experiences for people of all ages. It’s also known for its friendliness: You’ll be greeted with an enthusiastic “Howdy!” wherever you go. The residents are always willing to lend a hand or offer their recommendations.
Experience The Gardens at Texas A&M through a new light
Academy for the Visual Performance Arts introduces a new app for a unique immersive experience
and last updated 2021-04-08 13:49:28-04
BRAZOS COUNTY, TX â Live performances were another experience stripped away by the pandemic. Growing Harmony is a free app that will take you on a musical journey. The catch is you have to be in The Gardens at Texas A&M University for it to work. When you enter the garden, the app knows where you are. As you move through them, and you hear a score, a composition, an album, Dr. James R. Ball III, Director of Academy for the Visual Performing Arts and Assistant professor, Department of Performance Studies shared with KRHD 25 News.
Icicles coat a citrus tree on Monday, February 15, in Edinburg.
Delcia Lopez/The Monitor/AP
At Austin’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the bluebonnets are well on their way to blooming but all around them, you’d hardly know that the first day of spring is just two weeks away. “It looks like winter. There’s more brown now than there was before; it was fairly green,” says the center’s director of horticulture, Andrea DeLong-Amaya, referring to the terrain before February’s freeze. After the winter storm brought record low temperatures and encased plants in ice for days on end, she says, “some of the evergreen plants that I’ve never seen turn brown have turned brown.” In the Gardens at Texas A&M University, the scene is equally bleak: “Our creeping fig, butterfly vine, yellow bells, and blue plumbago have all died back to the ground,” says director Michael Arnold, a professor of landscape horticulture. And in Central Texas, certified arborist Maggie Ambro
Grapefruit: Citrus trees like this one in a Texas orchard were damaged by freezing weather. Initial losses from Uri could be ‘tip of iceberg’ for long-term impact
Early estimates from three top South Texas citrus-producing counties indicate the state will suffer significant citrus crop losses due to the recent ice storm and freezing weather.
Initial estimates from Texas Citrus Mutual based on crop loss information provided by Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy counties have put total citrus industry losses at no less than $300 million.
“Rio Grande Valley producers had already harvested about 80% of their orange crop and about 67% of their grapefruit crop before the storm, but what remained was all lost,” said Juan Anciso, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service horticulturist based in Weslaco. “We also saw significant losses on a number of both cold- and warm-season vegetable crops.”