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...
of course after saying hi ... I got to climbing around in the garden...and found a Nam Wah bunch kind of appealing....
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!)
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!
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....
For the record ....I used to be a reasonably good musician and ....well.... didn't disappoint the southern California crowd after all these years
I took this shaky photo at 3 am Ca. time....
I shall return!!!
