Rodeo season is heating up as well as the grape harvest around the state.

Summer’s heating up with lots of festivals, music, and a horse race or two.

Gas up and hit the road for fishing, fireworks, and fests.

Natural Bridge Caverns, one of Central Texas' most beautiful show caves, became 600 feet larger on May 8. Explorers entered a tunnel near the top of one of the large underground chambers to follow the passageway where no man had walked, or crawled, before.

Head out east of Austin on Highway 71, past the airport with its international traffic complicating local skies, past Berdoll’s Pecan Candy & Gifts with its touristy shelves of Lone Star nutmeats, past Bastrop where Elric’s storied daddy chooses to maintain a home, past that enormous Buc-ee’s with its cultish crowd of travel-happy acolytes.

The days are getting longer and the roads are calling with fun activities around the state.

Spring is finally here with warmer temperatures and lots of music festivals, Renaissance festivals, and reasons to go day trippin’.

It’s time for the annual wildflower road show, plus Texas’ birthday, St. Patrick’s Day, and more fun.

February begins with Lunar New Year celebrations and ends with the beginning of Mardi Gras season with lots of fun in between.