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Area Photos of Katy Texas, know as "The City of Churches", located 28 miles west of Houston

Katy Texas is know as "The City of Churches"

Katy Texas has is a great place to live, work and play for so many reasons. You get a small town atmosphere and it's located only 28 miles due West of Houston Texas which offers everything and anything the mind can imagine. Katy is know as "The City of Churches", since it has so many. The slogan for Katy is "A Town With A Heart". For more information on it's history please visit, Historical Katy Texas, a look back in time, by Liz Carter local Realtor since 1976 or,The Prettiest "Old Church in Texas...First Baptist Church in Katy, Texas. Liz Carter, the Texas Real Estate groups contest

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Bolin Chapel Bloen Chapel

nelson water garden

water garden

Nelson's Water Gardens in Katy Texas, a place you need to plan on spending the day, acres of complete water gardens on display. They sell everything to make your own, plus everything you need to go in it and around it + much more, like out door art. Of course you can get you Koi and Gold fish here too, and lady bugs.

water lilly water feature

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Streets in Katy "Proper" are lined with flowers, trees, due to our warm year-round climate, it seldom gets cold in Katy Texas, so we can luckily grow just about anything, featured here are flowering Bradford Pear Trees. Of course March in Katy Texas is one of our most glorious months, due to the azalea are in full bloom and they are everywhere you eyes can see and come in pinks, purples, whites + they are a beautiful evergreen shrub too, so when not in bloom they stay bright green year round...but it's when they bloom they are show-stoppers! Shorts in December anyone? More to Katy, Texas.

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Liz Carter & Team Realty (I'm in the middle) stopped in front of these magnificent white azaleas in full bloom for a photo to put in the paper for our award by the Houston Business Journal. I have ranked every year for the last 13 years that the HBJ has been tracking production of the top agents in the greater Houston MLS, which includes Katy, Sugar Land, and the surrounding areas. There are 27,000 Realtors in the Multiple Listing Service and I have placed in the top 25 every year for number of homes sold and total dollar value. When we saw these beauties after the awards breakfast it seemed the perfect photo op! The Azaleas bloom in March-April every year. They have an azalea trail that you can take a guided tour of some of the older more exclusive homes and marvel at the beauty of these flowers that are common to our area. It's worth a trip here during that time of the year, or better still just more here and you can enjoy our sub-tropic type weather year round. The humidity is good for your complexion too.

Since Texas is so large here is a map of the state of Texas to show you how close to the Gulf of Mexico we are.

state of Texas map golf couse Golf Courses are everywhere, and our mild weather allows you to play year round. Katy, and the greater Houston area are also very green. It's one of the first things I hear people comment on, "I never realized how green it is here. We also have so many parks, sports, and outdoor things to do.

Katy Mills Mall

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Shop till you drop at Katy Mills Mall in Katy Texas. It has "Neighborhoods", that announce when you go in the doors which neighborhood you are in so you don't get lost. There is a stadium seating movie theater, a dance hall, and of course a Bass Pro Shop to die for Not to mention all the other outside the mall attractions, hotels, restaurants, and the area just keeps growing. If this is not enough, Houston is a short drive.

houst for sale by Liz Carter & Team Realty in Westin Lakes Liz Carter& Team Realty

Katy, and the greater Houston area still have one of the lowest housing cost in the US at $200,000 average cost of a home. That is a very nice home in Katy. Typical construction is brick, and we have many master planned communities like the one on the right hand side and homes on acreage like the one I have for sale on the left hand side. Homes on acreage were you can bring you horses, and other like were the Liz Carter & Team are standing that have deed restrictions. I love living in Kat Texas and would like to share with you why so please call me at 281-391-7653 or visit my web site at www.lizcarter.com, and allow me to assist you with all the information you need if you are moving from around the world, or just live in he area and need a bigger or smaller home. I have lived here in Texas my whole life and been in Katy Texas since 1976. I truly am your area expert for the greater Houston, Katy, Sugar Land and surrounding areas. I offer FREE relocation packages and information, and would be happy to consult with you over the phone also. Let me leave you with one last picture on why I love Katy Texas, and I hope you enjoyed this brief photo tour. Liz Carter, owner/broker of Liz Carter & Team Realty, "Your Real Estate Resource For Life". For more photos of Katy, TX visit, Area Photos of Katy Texas, a town with a heart, by Liz Carter local Realtor since 1976 I'll leave you with a recent picture of Texas Wildflowers, all of our highways are planted in wildflowers, so diving in Texas in March-May is a real treat.

TX wildflowers

Blue Bonnets are the state flower of Texas

Posted by Liz Carter,Broker/Owner of Liz Carter & Team Realty, Katy TX (Houston) on 04/28/2008 03:06 AM

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25 Comments on Area Photos of Katy Texas, know as "The City of Churches", located 28 miles west of Houston

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Liz, Love the photos especially the bluebonnets. Great info on Katy, it sure has grown since I left the Houston area.

Don R.

Liz, this has been a good way to introduce people to Katy. I have not been to the Nelson Water Gardens yet this year, but I should head back (I gave up on my pond when I discovered that my golden retriever was going to spend so much time in it).

Now this is a well planned and thought-out blog. Love the information and photos. Makes you feel like in in Texas. Congrats on being one of the top Agencies in your area...you can clearly see why! Great post.

Liz, those are fabulous photo's of the flowers and your team. Have a great week!

Ms. Liz, this is your friend BWP; you really know how to promote your wonderful area over in Katy, TX. Maybe we will come up and spend the day sometime and visit Nelson's Water Gardens. We have only been to the Bass Pro and several stores when stopping off the interstate on our way back from Lake Charles to Canyon Lake.

As always, your pics are great.

BWP -your finding your way around AR very well, so when is your blog site going up? :) You will need to bring Mr. Greenie when he is in a spending mood, I have a hard time just going in to buy fish food for my Koi pond, in fact it never happens. They have these new bird baths this year on a metal stand and the basin is made of glass that is painted...oh heres a picture looking down into the bowl area,

bird bath

It's a work of art, and the stand it metal. Call me I'll meet you, L

Missy, wait till you see the post I'm doing on Wildflowers for the Texas Real state group. Glad you liked it. L

Hi Christiana, I got the spacing fixed thank goodness, looks a lot better. Maker the pictures smaller again as you said really helped. Thanks, L

Frank, yes it's one of my favorite places in Katy, my money and I go there often. I've had a Koi Pond for several years, and I've got some big fish, but dogs and ponds don't do well, especially a Golden or Lab. Just put a pool in then you can redo your pond :). Check out the other ones I've done on Katy, Houston, Cinco, etc. L

Don - thanks that makes me feel very good about my post if it made you feel like you were back here, check out my other ones too when you have time. L

Liz, this is beautiful! Way to go girl! Wanna come do some Localism posts in my area? Wow, very nice. We are probably going to stop by there to play a bit so lets keep in touch about when and where...K?

Later in the rain~Deb

That was a post loaded with info and pics of your community. Thanks for sharing!

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Sally - you are welcome, it was fun doing it. I had a couple more I'm going o try to get in before the deadline. L

These are beautiful photos. My cousin used to live in Austin and gave us a lovely little print of a farm house surrounded by blue bonnets. Gorgeous.

What a gorgeous collection and arrangement of photos, a tribute to Beauty, an honoring of Spirit, a blessing for all of us. thank you.

Liz:

This is a great post. Congratulations. I have given a great deal of thought to what I would like to learn from you. What I really need to learn is:

1. How to put together a system and organize my office.

I love your daily schedule and I have spent the time since I read your post a week ago, cleaning my office and gathering my files to one location. Today, I plan to print my daily schedule.

Have a blessed week.

Karen - sounds really pretty, hope you have a picture. L

Mara - you have such a great way with words, I just love you! L

Alan - I'm looking forward to seeing your schedule and helping you become a superstar! L

Liz - What gorgeous photos. I am just going to have to pay you a visit one of these days!

Sneaky Tom - always good to hear from you, and would love to have you visit. In fact Ricki is here right now for her training :), and we're playing on AR! I'm going to start ARA...Active Rain Anonymous :) Liz

What a great and colorful post, my friend! Terrific job!

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Jason my friend, I'm thrilled to have heard from you twice tonight :). Thanks, I liked it too, but it took several hours...gotta learn how to be quicker writing my post, and keep the quality that is most of them. L

Liz:

Great post and photos. Congrats to you and your team for doing an awesome job of showing Katy Texas at her very best.

Hey Liz, I'm just here to let you know my spell check wont work either and it's frustrating! I don't hardly remember how to spell! I look at the word over and over and I understand less...where's our spell check?

Later in the rain~Deb