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A geologic wonderland with inspiration to spare: painting Enchanted Rock

A half hour north of Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country lie a pair of enormous pink granite domes, the stubby remains of an ancient volcanic vent formed long before the dinosaurs when Texas was a shallow, blue sea and not a deep, red state. The domes have always been hard for people to miss, […]

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Just passing through: Catching the colors in Crowell

Behind the Painting / Matulart

There is plenty of color in Texas, at least so far as place names go. There’s Amarillo, Gruene, Orange, Violet, Carmine, Glen Rose, Brown County, Blanco, Piedras Negras and the Red River. That’s quite a palette, but not really representative of the colors one sees here in the landscape. Vast areas, most of the state

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