Lifestyle

It was a beautiful weekend in Spring Texas as evidenced by the large groups of people who were out enjoying the great weather by attending festivals, cooking outdoors, working in their yards, or attending open houses.  Hopefully, you had a chance to attend the 5th annual Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival as it was a great way to spend […]

If you haven’t taken the time to visit the Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens now is the time.  With low humidity and temperatures in the 70s, the Spring Texas weather is great. It’s the perfect time of year to be enjoying the outdoors. Click the photo below to view a short video on Mercer Arboretum […]

Have you seen the art on display by Felix Gonzalez-Torres?  If you frequently drive up and down Louetta in Spring Texas like I do, you have probably seen it.  You just didn’t know it.  Sound weird?  Probably so.  That’s because the art was designed to become part of the landscape. For the next year, 13 images created […]

On March 6th at 6 P.M. Strack’s restaurant is hosting a “Welcome Home” party for Spring Texas’s hometown boy, Chad Hedrick. Chad is returning from his second Winter Olympics where he competed in the sport of speed skating and compete he did.  As Chad is bringing home a silver and a bronze medal from the 2010 Winter […]

Cheese fries have to be the best pig out and comfort food of all time. They probably have a gazillion calories and a high percentage of fat content but they are so good that I don’t know how anybody could resist them.  At least not all the time. If you are going to eat cheese fries you want […]

Parties, horns, Champagne toasts and fireworks are all things that are associated with ringing in the New Year.  In some parts of the country and in most cities fireworks are prohibited. In the city of Houston fireworks are prohibited but in unincorporated areas of Harris County such as Spring Texas fireworks are permitted.  But it is not a free for […]

Our pick for the best place to view Christmas Lights in Northwest Houston is without a doubt the Prestonwood Forest subdivision. Known as the “Christmas Lights Neighborhood”, its continuation of a 31+ year tradition has become legendary. Local newspapers and television stations, Southern Living , FOX News, and the Travel Channel  have all written stories about […]

Oysters on the half shell … it seems either people love them or think they are slimy inedible objects.  I am one of those people who love, love, love oysters on the half shell. Finding reasonably priced and good oysters on the half shell in Spring Texas is not quite as difficult as finding a pearl in an oyster […]