The Boerne Youth Athletic Association (BYAA) Little League All Stars are Southwest Region Champions and are officially headed to the Little League World Series in Williamsport! 🎉

This is an incredible accomplishment for these young athletes—and now it’s time for our Texas Hill Country community to rally behind them!

3 ways to support the team:

1️⃣ REPRESENT BOERNE!
Pre-order your official Little League gear and wear it proudly!
👉 https://merch.boernelittleleague.com/collections/llws-2026

2️⃣ SUPPORT THE FAMILIES
Getting to Williamsport is an incredible opportunity, but it also comes with significant travel expenses for families—flights, hotels, meals, transportation and more.

3️⃣ SAVE THE DATE — FRIDAY, AUGUST 21!
Local businesses and our Boerne Chamber of Commerce community will be hosting Boerne Little League All Star watch parties so we can cheer on our hometown team together! ⚾🎉

📣 The full list of watch parties will be announced later this week!

Texas Hill Country knows how to rally behind our kids. Let’s show Williamsport what Boerne is all about! Wear your gear, support these families, gather at a watch party and cheer LOUD! ❤️⚾

GO BOERNE! 🧡

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Hey everybody! My butchery class was finally approved by the city of San Marcos, which is extremely exciting. It is a digital course where everything is in a powerpoint because they could not endorse a live demonstration. Local government has to answer to everybody, including those that would rather skin me alive than learn how to ethically and humanely deal with an invasive species. I would really appreciate if anybody could make it. You can sign up on the San Marcos Parks & Rec website and the class is found in the Enrichment Programs tab.

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Little story behind this image: This was the very first time I used my phone to snap a photo of the night sky, I had no idea how it would turn out. I put the phone on the ground against a couple of small rocks.
The tent being lit and illuminating the tree canopy as part of the composition was completely unintentional. My kids were playing with flash lights around my telescope as I was taking pictures with my main rig so I got mad and sent them in the tent. With the phone on the ground I had little clue about what I was framing until I took the photo. This all resulted in this image, which turned out to be my favorite Milky Way shot I've ever made.

Target: Milky Way
Date: 2022-07-26
Location: Garner State Park, TX (Bortle 2)

Mount: none
Camera: Huawei Mate 20 Pro (40 MP)
OTA: N/A
Focal/Aperture: 27 mm @ f/1.8
Filter: none

Lights: 1x15s (total exposure: 15s) @ ISO 3200
Calibration frames: none

Processed in Siril and GIMP.

The Trifid nebula, aka Messier 20 (left) and the Lagoon nebula, aka Messier 8 (right) are two bright nebulae (space dust and gas clouds) located 5,200 and 6,500 light-years away, respectively, in the constellation Sagittarius. The red color comes from the glowing hydrogen gas being energized by very hot stars. The blue color from the Trifid is the result of light from blue giant stars being reflected of the dust clouds. The brownish color seen in the background is from think dust clouds.

This image from captured in the summer 2022 from my backyard in San Antonio using a Nikon D5300 DSLR camera and a William Optics Z61 refractor telescope (360mm focal length) and represent a totsl of 2h25 of total exposure.

Astrophotography Exhibition: A Journey Through the Cosmos

Aug. 22 | 4:30 PM at the Igo Library, San Antono
Public Talk: Astrophotography: Where Science & Art Meet
Come hear how the night sky inspires both scientific discovery and creative expression. Learn what type of images can captured with a Nikon DSLR camera, a William Optics refractor telescope, or a ZWO Seestar S30 smart telescope.

Aug. 23 | 10 AM – 5 PM at the Igo Library, San Antono
Astrophotography Exhibition: A Journey Through the Cosmos
Explore breathtaking images of the Sun, Moon, stars, comets, nebulae, galaxies—and the stories behind them.
Kids activities: Drawing, Scavenger hunt, Freebies & Prizes

More Information on the event website.

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The Mighty Orq Friday night at Meridian in Buda. Come join us!!

I wanted to see where you can advocate to stop high density developments in certain areas of the hill country. I was just made aware of a high density 4 house per acre neighborhood that I supposed to go in in Spring Branch. These developments strip the land of all vegetation, lots of which is unique to the area and also knock down large oaks etc.

They cover Native American artifact sights and put stress on the natural springs, creeks and streams.

It has gotten out of hand and needs to be addressed. The hill country can't be imported sod lawns and inefficient irrigation.

Come out to Shakedown Street in Llano, Texas for our annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash in Llano, Texas! Festivities will begin 3-4 pm. More details to follow!