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Dear Neil, we have an older house that has trailing vinca groundcover. Each year its leaves look like they’ve been torched toward the end of the summer. What causes this, and what can we do to keep it from happening? New growth comes up each fall, and it looks terrific.

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What is water? Many would say that water is life, and they’re not wrong. But if we dig a bit deeper, we find that water, for all its simplicity in our minds, is, in fact, quite extreme.

Faced with a reading obsession? Love traveling with an e-reader because the entire library can go along for the trip?

At the center of the image sits the large galaxy named Hercules A, which harbors a supermassive black hole more than a thousand times as massive as the one in our own Milky Way galaxy. Thanks to radio observations, large jets are seen shooting away from the galaxy’s core.

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There is something about the first cool days of fall in West Texas that makes me want to cook outside and if you are like me, an avid College Football watcher, nothing beats Saturday morning prepping food for the day outside, College Game Day on the TV and the smell of the smoker cranking up.

Send your community events to kara.gerbert@alpineavalanche. com UPCOMING EVENTS October 9-11 Chinati Weekend in Marfa October 10 Sunshine House Wild West Night October 11 First Baptist Church Fall Festival October 9-12 Octane Fest October 16-17 Terlingua Bike Weekend November 13 Brewster-Jeff Davis...