Bob
03-17-2010, 07:41 PM
Well.... I got out for a rare (these days) visit to southern California to visit an old friend...
Got to meet some new ones too....
Being in Los Angeles I had to meet up with momoese( and meet his dogs... best way to judge someone ).... Thankfully for them I must report that his dogs were in need of serious attention .... I got there just in the nick of time....and ..... Penny and I are now officially friends for life...
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/070.jpg:goteam:
of course after saying hi ... I got to climbing around in the garden...and found a Nam Wah bunch kind of appealing....
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/BobinMIthcelstree.jpg
It was warm enough to enjoy dinner outdoors and at the end of a long and serious banana discussion Mitchel and I... and our better halves were......pretty well ok with the east and west coast banana growers society...( nice shirt buddy!)
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/074.jpg
Saturday I headed to San Diego and met up with Jon ( Pitangadiego)
I hadn't talked to Jon all that much since joining bananas.org but he was one of the guys who had always answered my emails and endless requests for information so I took the chance and asked for a tour of the farm........
Turned out to be a great move and Jon not only gave me and Anne ( aash09) an unrushed and informative tour of the farm but..... I got to eat some Misi Lukis...... too good to tell you how good they are......mmmmm!....
and then had the pleasure of hearing all I wanted ( which was everything)about every plant....you can't get that sort of tour just anywhere... Thanks Jon!
Ever heard of an Ice cream Bean Tree?..... Me neither!
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/078-1.jpg
Here's me and Jon and an "Altreano" fig which one of my friends is growing and should be a great choice for a container to produce lots of figs....
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/174.jpg
For the record ....I used to be a reasonably good musician and ....well.... didn't disappoint the southern California crowd after all these years
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/098.jpg
I took this shaky photo at 3 am Ca. time....
I shall return!!!:ha:
Got to meet some new ones too....
Being in Los Angeles I had to meet up with momoese( and meet his dogs... best way to judge someone ).... Thankfully for them I must report that his dogs were in need of serious attention .... I got there just in the nick of time....and ..... Penny and I are now officially friends for life...
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/070.jpg:goteam:
of course after saying hi ... I got to climbing around in the garden...and found a Nam Wah bunch kind of appealing....
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/BobinMIthcelstree.jpg
It was warm enough to enjoy dinner outdoors and at the end of a long and serious banana discussion Mitchel and I... and our better halves were......pretty well ok with the east and west coast banana growers society...( nice shirt buddy!)
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/074.jpg
Saturday I headed to San Diego and met up with Jon ( Pitangadiego)
I hadn't talked to Jon all that much since joining bananas.org but he was one of the guys who had always answered my emails and endless requests for information so I took the chance and asked for a tour of the farm........
Turned out to be a great move and Jon not only gave me and Anne ( aash09) an unrushed and informative tour of the farm but..... I got to eat some Misi Lukis...... too good to tell you how good they are......mmmmm!....
and then had the pleasure of hearing all I wanted ( which was everything)about every plant....you can't get that sort of tour just anywhere... Thanks Jon!
Ever heard of an Ice cream Bean Tree?..... Me neither!
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/078-1.jpg
Here's me and Jon and an "Altreano" fig which one of my friends is growing and should be a great choice for a container to produce lots of figs....
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/174.jpg
For the record ....I used to be a reasonably good musician and ....well.... didn't disappoint the southern California crowd after all these years
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/098.jpg
I took this shaky photo at 3 am Ca. time....
I shall return!!!:ha: