Sunny Spring Days!

If you are retiring, or wanting a second home, or looking for that first home, there are many, many terrific opportunities here…bayfronts, canal homes, residential beauties in the Country Club, Little Bay Shores, or Harbor Oaks; RV lots, lots for new homes, lots for businesses. Here’s a couple of links to listings that include a café at Cove Harbor, residential and business lots, a waterfront lot, a fab condo, an incredible Copano Bay home, a medium-priced 3/2, and a garden home in a gated community. Something for everyone!!     (for more listings click my company Lynn Johnson Realty, Inc. under links next to this post.)
  For the properties listed above,  paste this link in your url:  http://www.navica2.net/displays/?n=392&i=108527&k=VUOo

Coastal Living Magazine declares that Rockport is one of the top 10 coastal communities to live in!! And we have the ONLY Blue Wave Beach in Texas…so there!!! HERE!!

ANNUAL OYSTERFEST THIS WEEKEND MARCH 4-7

HOW MANY CAN YOU EAT??! The Fulton VFD hopes lots!! Yep, it’s time for the 31st annual OYSTERFEST !! Come down for incredible food, live entertainment, our famous coastal art, crafts, parade, and a carnival!! T’is a fundraiser for the Fire Dept. Hope to see you here!! Here’s a link to R-F’s Chamber website for information on all the goings on:
-www.rockport-fulton.org.

BROWN BAG LECTURE AT THE TEXAS MARITIME MUSEUM

If you stay over till Monday, 8th March, you can check out the “brown bag” lecture at our Texas Maritime Museum, and then come wish me a happy birthday (still crazy at 68!!). Here’s the TMM link:
www.texasmaritimemuseum.org.; if you need a fab condo to stay in, my daughter’s waterfront unit is available; call 361-727-2311, ask for 2516 Bayhouse (discount).

TALL SHIP CELEBRATION JULY 4

Book accommodations now! July 4 is a big deal on the coast. Adding to the fun is A HUGE celebration coming to Naval Station Ingleside over the 4th July to commemorate the independence of both North and South America!! Several TALL SHIPS will be sailing into the harbor. It will be a five-day festival, featuring “Flying Clouds” from Mexico, South American countries, and the US. The US Coast Guard ship Eagle will be there. Here’s a link that will bring you “up over the transom” with great information: www.caller.com/news/2010/feb/09/tall-ships-sail-into-ingleside-july-1-5/.

And if you are interested in getting involved with this spectacular event, perhaps as a volunteer, call Jan Hart, Ingleside Eco. Development, at: 361-776-2906. This event is being funded primarily by the Port of Corpus Christi and the Buc Days Commission.

INCREDIBLE ART
If you are a lover of fine wildlife art (like I am), and if you can get to Corpus Christi before 21st March, you can see some of the finest art of wild America ever created. The collection comes from the National Museum of Wildlife Art at Yellowstone (Jackson Hole, Wyoming), and features, among several incredible artists, Robert Bateman (my very favorite!!), Catlin, Bierstadt, Audubon, Ullberg, and Kuhn. I was mesmerized by the show, and went back for a second look. While you are there, you can also enjoy super fine food at the museum’s “Dobson Café”, which overlooks beautiful Corpus Christi Bay! Check out the photos taken from the café and nearby balcony. Have you ever seen such beauty! This museum is really special. Another Coastal Bend feature for you!!
www.artmuseumofsouthtexas.org.

WE HAVE MUSIC!!

jake and jen

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A couple of weekends ago our Art Center and all of our fabulous art galleries in Rockport had an open house. This happens every month! We had a wonderfully fun evening, and best of all, while we were enjoying a special invitation from the St Charles Gallery, our friends Jen Jones and Jake Rubinowitz were providing top notch entertainment!! Wow, those two are really good!! Jen did most of the singing, and Jake is quite an accomplished guitarist (and fine backup singer on duets too!!). For proof, here’s a little segment that my girlfriend Kadi Wills taped while we were there. Jen owns the Rialto Theater in Aransas Pass, where she schedules various dramatic events and live music. Another great advantage of the Coastal Bend for you!
(PS, another Art Center reception coming on 6th March; here’s the link:
www.rockportartscenter.com

MORE EVENTS…

-Garden Club Whooping Crane Tour, on board the Skimmer, 15th March, 361-790-7775;
And to help protect the Whoopers: http://thearansasproject.org/
-Rockport Yacht Club annual Nautical Flea Market, 1-2nd May; one of my very favorite events; I’ve bought and sold cool stuff at this event; it’s a blast!! You can donate items to the RYC (fundraiser), 361-205-6757, or rent a booth to sell your nautical “stuff”!!!

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We are certainly aware that the real estate market has taken its blows over the past year, and that qualifying for home loans is a little more involved nowadays; there’s increased scrutiny, which is a good thing. BUT, I also can convey to you that here in our little backwater, this lovely, rare, even precious enclave called Rockport-Fulton, sales of homes, lots and commercial properties are happening!! With rainy, cold weather subsiding, bright sunny days returning, “spring is in the air”, and there are some really fine buys here. And we have highly skilled mortgage brokers and lenders who can help you achieve your dreams.

www.lynnjohnsonrealty.com

Call any time: Jim Wills, 361-463-9820…let’s talk!!

JIM WILLS, ABR ("Accredited Buyer's Rep")
A Texas Licensed RealtorR
Lynn Johnson Realty, Inc.
A Texas Licensed Corporate Broker
3210 Hwy 35 N., Fulton, TX 78358
Cell: 361.463.9820, Toll Free: 866.232.1876
blog: http://rockporttxcoastalrealestate.wordpress.com/

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