Re: dolphin flower

**John MacGregor j*@earthlink.net**

on 5/30/05 4:14 PM, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp at hoosiergardener@earthlink.net
wrote:

> We are in the Midwest, so it's probably an annual or a tender
> perennial we use as an annual.

John -- thanks for your Latin lesson.

I hope you were not being mean or snotty. That's how the message came
across...as insulting to my Midwestern "reality." If you don't know
what I mean, substitute the word Californian for Midwestern.

jems,

Sorry I touched a raw nerve.  I used the word "Midwestern" only because you
did.  Actually, I thought I was apologizing a bit for a bookish explanation
that you probably would find  farfetched as the source of your customers'
inquiry.  Apparently I was correct.

I am descended from good Midwestern stock.  My mother's family came to New
Mexico from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and my father's from Salina and Parsons,
Kansas.  I still have many relatives in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio and many
fond memories of visits there.  My grandmother graduated Magna Cum Laude
from Ames, so I have no prejudice regarding lack of intelligence in the
Midwest. I am a relatively recent transplant to California, and I have moved
around enough in my life not to feel any particularly fervent patriotism for
any region.

I certainly meant no disrespect.  I regret that you interpreted my remarks
that way.

John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23

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