Most of the cypresses still standing along Wimberley’s stretch of the Blanco River arch dramatically, their leafless crowns pointed east, as if they’re all bowing to an unseen deity. It’s been a year since record-breaking floods wreaked havoc here on Memorial Day weekend, and the altered landscape bears witness to how hellish things got: a dozen lives lost, hundreds of homes battered or gone. Less than six months later, the Hill Country’s Little Bit of Heaven, as the area is often dubbed, was pummeled by another deluge, on Halloween.Wimberley has suffered mightily, but it has by no means been wiped off the map. Nor has it lost its footing as the quiet, tree-shaded, swimming-hole-rich paradise that every other idyllic pocket in Texas is measured against.…The post Trip Guide: Wimberley appeared first on Texas Monthly.