June 14, 2024
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/01_San_Antonio_River_Walk.jpg)
I went on a pretend bois safari in San Antonio in April, searching down all of the fake bois — domestically often known as trabajo rústico — that I might discover in sooner or later. And I discovered a LOT. Check out my faux bois post here.
However there’s much more to see within the Alamo Metropolis than can match into sooner or later. So every week later, I gassed up the automobile, talked my husband and daughter into becoming a member of me, and made one other day journey to San Antonio. In full vacationer mode, we arrived on the River Walk and took a leisurely stroll up and down the romantic canal that runs by means of the outdated a part of the town.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/02_Faux_bois_bench.jpg)
I discovered just a few benches of trabajo rústico alongside the best way, crafted by Carlos Cortés. Made in practical imitation of wooden, they’re sculpted from concrete.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/03_Faux_bois_arbor.jpg)
Carlos additionally created this tree-like arbor alongside the River Stroll.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/04_Art_fish_under_bridge.jpg)
We discovered different public artwork alongside the River Stroll too, together with Donald Lipski’s school of sunfish “swimming” beneath a bridge. These gentle up at evening, and I want we’d been capable of time our go to to see them illuminated.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/05_San_Antonio_mosaic.jpg)
Below one other bridge, I noticed this tile mosaic of San Antonio’s skyline, full with the Alamo and Tower of the Americas.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Drinks_at_Domingo_San_Antonio.jpg)
We stopped for a scrumptious lunch with cocktails on the riverside patio at Domingo. Extremely advocate.
The Alamo
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/06_Davy_Crockett_statue_Alamo.jpg)
Nonetheless in vacationer mode, we swung by the Alamo for a tour and stated hey to Davy Crockett, who died defending it from the Mexican military in 1836.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Alamo_facade.jpg)
The Alamo’s weathered limestone facade
The Witte Museum
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/30_Faux_bois_gateposts_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Subsequent we headed to the Pearl, however I’ll save that for one more put up. Our final cease of the day was the Witte Museum, which we loved taking our youngsters to once they have been younger. I hadn’t been again for the reason that Witte’s intensive renovation was accomplished in 2017.
After touring the pure historical past reveals, we explored the grounds, the place I noticed fake bois gateposts that mimic a pair of weathered tree trunks. A yucca sprouts from the highest of 1.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Faux_bois_Witte_sign.jpg)
An indication explains that the gateposts have been sculpted in 1930 by Dionicio Rodriguez and Theodore Voss for Elvira Pizzini Guerra. They have been finally donated to the town by her household.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/31_Faux_bois_bench_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Within the kids’s journey space of the Witte, a curved fake bois bench was crafted by Carlos Cortés…
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/32_Faux_bois_treehouse_Witte_Museum.jpg)
…as was a superb treehouse you can climb up into.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/33_Faux_bois_treehouse_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Explora! urges a carved sign up Spanish. We did.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/34_Faux_bois_tree_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Lifelike tree bark sculpted from concrete
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/35_Faux_bois_stairs_Bald_cypress_Witte_Museum.jpg)
An actual-life tree, a bald cypress, grows by means of the middle of fake bois stairs.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/36_Faux_bois_treehouse_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Climbing up…
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/37_Faux_bois_treehouse_Witte_Museum.jpg)
…to the highest, the place my household was having fun with the view.
Fiesta robes
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/24_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
Fiesta, a multi-day celebration of San Antonio heritage and tradition, was kicking off that week. (We missed all of the festivities, sadly. Sooner or later I have to expertise what this annual occasion is all about.) In tribute, the Witte opened an exhibition of robes and trains worn by Fiesta royalty (like at Mardi Gras? I don’t know), which runs by means of September 29, 2024.
The Witte’s robe theme is “Fiesta Seems to be to the Skies,” a nod to the overall eclipse that occurred in April:
“This exhibition celebrates our timeless fascination with the heavens, showcasing the beautiful craftsmanship and celestial themes woven into every regal garment. From the 1920 blue-green sequined Queen of the Court docket of Birds robe to the fireworks and skyrockets on the practice of the 1965 Duchess of Fiery Festivals, you’ll be transported to the heavens as you admire the artistry and craftsmanship in these gorgeous artistic endeavors.”
https://www.wittemuseum.org/exhibitions/fiesta-looks-to-the-skies/
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/23_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
This practice with flowering agaves and prickly pears was my favourite, naturally.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/25_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
They have been all superb. I can’t think about how heavy these velvet and sequined costumes could be to put on.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/26_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
Artwork Deco swirls
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/27_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
Clouds with moon and stars
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/28_Fiesta_costume_male.jpg)
Guys get in on the costume motion too.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/29_Fiesta_peacock_gown.jpg)
A flapper-style robe with peacock-tail practice
Should you haven’t been, I extremely advocate a go to to the Witte. Brackenridge Park is true subsequent door with loads extra to see, including some faux bois pieces, plus the zoo and the Japanese Tea Garden.
Up subsequent: Landscaping on the Pearl, a historic brewery complicated in San Antonio, and exquisite Resort Emma.
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June 14, 2024
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/01_San_Antonio_River_Walk.jpg)
I went on a pretend bois safari in San Antonio in April, searching down all of the fake bois — domestically often known as trabajo rústico — that I might discover in sooner or later. And I discovered a LOT. Check out my faux bois post here.
However there’s much more to see within the Alamo Metropolis than can match into sooner or later. So every week later, I gassed up the automobile, talked my husband and daughter into becoming a member of me, and made one other day journey to San Antonio. In full vacationer mode, we arrived on the River Walk and took a leisurely stroll up and down the romantic canal that runs by means of the outdated a part of the town.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/02_Faux_bois_bench.jpg)
I discovered just a few benches of trabajo rústico alongside the best way, crafted by Carlos Cortés. Made in practical imitation of wooden, they’re sculpted from concrete.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/03_Faux_bois_arbor.jpg)
Carlos additionally created this tree-like arbor alongside the River Stroll.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/04_Art_fish_under_bridge.jpg)
We discovered different public artwork alongside the River Stroll too, together with Donald Lipski’s school of sunfish “swimming” beneath a bridge. These gentle up at evening, and I want we’d been capable of time our go to to see them illuminated.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/05_San_Antonio_mosaic.jpg)
Below one other bridge, I noticed this tile mosaic of San Antonio’s skyline, full with the Alamo and Tower of the Americas.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Drinks_at_Domingo_San_Antonio.jpg)
We stopped for a scrumptious lunch with cocktails on the riverside patio at Domingo. Extremely advocate.
The Alamo
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/06_Davy_Crockett_statue_Alamo.jpg)
Nonetheless in vacationer mode, we swung by the Alamo for a tour and stated hey to Davy Crockett, who died defending it from the Mexican military in 1836.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Alamo_facade.jpg)
The Alamo’s weathered limestone facade
The Witte Museum
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/30_Faux_bois_gateposts_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Subsequent we headed to the Pearl, however I’ll save that for one more put up. Our final cease of the day was the Witte Museum, which we loved taking our youngsters to once they have been younger. I hadn’t been again for the reason that Witte’s intensive renovation was accomplished in 2017.
After touring the pure historical past reveals, we explored the grounds, the place I noticed fake bois gateposts that mimic a pair of weathered tree trunks. A yucca sprouts from the highest of 1.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Faux_bois_Witte_sign.jpg)
An indication explains that the gateposts have been sculpted in 1930 by Dionicio Rodriguez and Theodore Voss for Elvira Pizzini Guerra. They have been finally donated to the town by her household.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/31_Faux_bois_bench_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Within the kids’s journey space of the Witte, a curved fake bois bench was crafted by Carlos Cortés…
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/32_Faux_bois_treehouse_Witte_Museum.jpg)
…as was a superb treehouse you can climb up into.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/33_Faux_bois_treehouse_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Explora! urges a carved sign up Spanish. We did.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/34_Faux_bois_tree_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Lifelike tree bark sculpted from concrete
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/35_Faux_bois_stairs_Bald_cypress_Witte_Museum.jpg)
An actual-life tree, a bald cypress, grows by means of the middle of fake bois stairs.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/36_Faux_bois_treehouse_Witte_Museum.jpg)
Climbing up…
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/37_Faux_bois_treehouse_Witte_Museum.jpg)
…to the highest, the place my household was having fun with the view.
Fiesta robes
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/24_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
Fiesta, a multi-day celebration of San Antonio heritage and tradition, was kicking off that week. (We missed all of the festivities, sadly. Sooner or later I have to expertise what this annual occasion is all about.) In tribute, the Witte opened an exhibition of robes and trains worn by Fiesta royalty (like at Mardi Gras? I don’t know), which runs by means of September 29, 2024.
The Witte’s robe theme is “Fiesta Seems to be to the Skies,” a nod to the overall eclipse that occurred in April:
“This exhibition celebrates our timeless fascination with the heavens, showcasing the beautiful craftsmanship and celestial themes woven into every regal garment. From the 1920 blue-green sequined Queen of the Court docket of Birds robe to the fireworks and skyrockets on the practice of the 1965 Duchess of Fiery Festivals, you’ll be transported to the heavens as you admire the artistry and craftsmanship in these gorgeous artistic endeavors.”
https://www.wittemuseum.org/exhibitions/fiesta-looks-to-the-skies/
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/23_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
This practice with flowering agaves and prickly pears was my favourite, naturally.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/25_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
They have been all superb. I can’t think about how heavy these velvet and sequined costumes could be to put on.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/26_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
Artwork Deco swirls
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/27_Fiesta_gown_train.jpg)
Clouds with moon and stars
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/28_Fiesta_costume_male.jpg)
Guys get in on the costume motion too.
![](https://www.penick.net/digging/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/29_Fiesta_peacock_gown.jpg)
A flapper-style robe with peacock-tail practice
Should you haven’t been, I extremely advocate a go to to the Witte. Brackenridge Park is true subsequent door with loads extra to see, including some faux bois pieces, plus the zoo and the Japanese Tea Garden.
Up subsequent: Landscaping on the Pearl, a historic brewery complicated in San Antonio, and exquisite Resort Emma.
I welcome your feedback. Please scroll to the top of this put up to go away one. Should you’re studying in an e mail, click here to visit Digging and discover the remark field on the finish of every put up. And hey, did somebody ahead this e mail to you, and also you wish to subscribe? Click here to get Digging delivered on to your inbox!
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Digging Deeper
Come study gardening and design at Garden Spark! I manage in-person talks by inspiring designers, panorama architects, authors, and gardeners just a few instances a 12 months in Austin. These are limited-attendance occasions that promote out rapidly, so be part of the Backyard Spark e mail record to be notified upfront; merely click this link and ask to be added. Season 8 kicks off in fall 2024. Keep tuned for more information!
All materials © 2024 by Pam Penick for Digging. Unauthorized copy prohibited.