irst, here’s a leftover tidbit that did not fit last week. When the Hermann’s settled in Mountain City Oaks, Karen Herrmann worked at Seton Medical Center in Austin and Jim worked at Motorola in Seguin. Mountain City was in the middle of both work places. Holly Cass worked with Jim in Seguin at Moto...

im Herrmann welcomed guests this past week.  On May 15th, a baby Blue Jay sat on his shoulder for a while, hopped up on his arm, and plopped onto his shoe. It was just that one day. The jay stayed around for a few days, but not close to humans.  Humans covered The Herrmann’s backyard on Saturday for...

issMe extends to you an invitation to the Buda Wiener Dog Races this weekend. There’s a full schedule in this newspaper and on budalionsclub.com . At the time of weaving together this Montage, the time of KissMe’s heat had not been announced. It’s likely to be in the 10 a.m. batch since he registere...

ave you seen your first firefly of 2017? For us, it was this past week. RonTom and I went over to Buck’s Backyard on 1626 for a bite to eat after Monday evening’s City Council Meeting. From the back deck, in a nice breeze, we watched fireflies and the full moon while frogs croaked. It’s a new dining...

ometimes a photo is not available. Such is the case with what RonTom described when I returned home from a bus trip to Wichita Falls (to hear Beth Moore) with ladies of Fellowship Church. Remember how I told you about putting blond dog hair from my mom’s dog, Buddy, into a “suet cage” for birds to u...

ast week’s Montage pulled in an owl tidbit for this week. Priscilla Bettes, who lives on Indian Creek Lane, behind Poplar, wrote, “Last year one took up residence in our barn up in the rafters.  It would come out at night and peek down at me as I was feeding our horses.  We saw it for several nights...

his week, just four subjects: Owl, Paulownia, blue eggs, and NestWatch app. Laura Craig stopped by to see one of the Screech Owls frequenting the ledge of our Owl Shack. RonTom and I know we have “two” because one is a red morph. Look! Laura captured a pesky squirrel harassing the owl. A photo taken...

emember hearing about the wretched KittyHulk bringing terror to cats and cat owners along Maple and Ash? To the Garza girls, he’s gentle “Mister Muffin”. Quite some time ago, maybe two years, when the now infamous tomcat showed up in the backyard of Live Oak at Ash, they fed him a muffin. Mister Muf...

id you participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count over the holiday weekend?  If not, at any time you can start counting birds and submitting your observations to http://ebird.org A red-tailed hawk landed in our backyard while we were watching on two of the days.  You might hear him screaming out a...

on’t believe everything on the Internet. And, to my great regret, don’t believe every word you read here. As much as I research, I sometimes weave in a statement not knowing it needs research. Last week, I misidentified an owl. Our “Owl’ee” in our Owl Shack was an Eastern Screech Owl, red morph. Acc...