St. Mark's invites you to their annual Fall Festival, featuring over 40 vendors selling handmade arts & crafts, plus homemade treats, Silent Auction, door prizes, wine toss and much more.

Kids' activities include a petting zoo, pumpkin patch, bouncy house, balloon artist, games and face painting. Proceeds benefit church and outreach programs. FREE Admission! 2128 Barton Hills Drive. For more information, call the church at 444-1449.

The season has turned and it's time to go love on our greenbelt again! It will be wonderful working in cooler weather. Hopefully there will be some rain before then, to perk up the wilted vegetation. It is amazingly hardy, and usually shows immediate appreciation after rain events.

We are going to work on the Gus Fruh trail this time, located at 2642 Barton Hills Drive. We will begin with sign-ins and task instructions and a jump-start Maria?s taco treat at 9:00, and work until 1:00. We have tasks for all ages and skill levels, and for those who can just stay part-time. We provide all of the necessary tools and supplies. You just need to come wearing proper clothing (long sleeves and pants and closed-toe shoes) and a readiness to team up and work with others who want to give back to the greenbelt.

The wall building crew is avid to continue their work down by the swimming hole. We will need lots of hands there to gather and place and mortar rocks. We also want to gather and stockpile some flat stones that can serve as steppers up a slippery slope (when it?s wet) that connects with the main trail on the other side of the creek from the stone wall. As always, we will be doing ligustrum and nandina removal, and arranging the removed branches and trunks into windrows. The area by the trail entry needs some weeding, and a few of the drain swales along the side of the trail need to be cleared of debris.

The trail resurfacing that we did last spring is holding up very well. Come on out and enjoy a beautiful day in the woods with us.

Please RSVP so we will know how many to prepare for.


Glee Ingram
Greenbelt Guardian Coordinator
(512) 443-7522
gleeful@earthlink.net