by Donna Lewis
photos by Joyce Conner
On August 18th, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in Caldwell, Texas, the Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District (POSGCD) held an all-day event for those living in Milam and Burleson Counties.
We were invited to have an informational booth at the Civic Center about the El Camino Real Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists, and a booth for the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail.
This event covered many topics including water rights, legislation updates, well monitoring, septic practices, and many other topics.
Joyce Conner and I set up our booths the day before. Joyce also set up the Trail Association booth next to ours. Both tables looked very professional and had handouts about both organizations. Our tablecloth really looks nice.
Joyce, Scott Berger, and I arrived around 7:00 am. That was a good thing because people started to arrive then. Both our booths had many interested people asking questions and taking brochures with them. Sandra Dworaczyk arrived soon after. We missed getting her picture with us. Several of our members, including Janice Johnson, attended the talk. Probably more came, but I was too busy to catch them.
Joyce had brochures that showed where the El Camino Real Trail was in our area, which was very interesting to many who lived in our county. No doubt some did not know much about the history of the trail.
I think I talked to at least 50 people about our group. Scott and Sandra were also talking to many people and Joyce jumped in when we needed her. It took the four of us to handle the crowd. Many wished they had a chapter in Burleson County. I informed them that they could attend our talks, but most did not want to come that far at night. Many were interested in daytime events. I told them to check out our website for those events.
The President of the Lost Pines Master Naturalist Chapter was attending the event and talked to me about our events also.
This was a very successful event for our chapter. I hope we will get some new members because of it.
A good day for Nature.
Nature Along the El Camino Real 
Burleson Co. is one of the counties in the Brazos County TMN chapter. I always recommend first that they contact their county TMN chapter and then mention that our chapter is available also and that we always welcome visitors to any of our programs. BTW, the Brazos Valley chapter will have another great program at their chapter meeting in September.
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