Re: AIS Dallas Dress & Official Ballot

Evenin' all...  

For those heading to Dallas I shall offer my typical "April in Dallas" 
dressing advice...  Bring COOL clothes!  For Donald Eaves, if you're going to 
wear a suit to the Awards banquet, make it a SUMMER WEIGHT one...  Dallas can 
be a cooker with high humidity in April worsening by May.   Of course, all 
the Texans already know that and are so used to it that it is merely second 
nature.  Oh, it might only be 75 or 80 when you head out in the morning, but 
by the late afternoon it will feel like 100.  So, definitely for the bus 
trips, DRESS COOL.  If the weather people predict anything under 90, CARRY a 
light jacket with you in the morning.  I would think anything above that for 
Dallas would be overpacking.  

Now, most will tell you the Orlando Florida area is hot, humid and a cooker 
the end of April and first week of May.  I, however, barely broke a sweat 
last year during my first Florida daylily trip when I was down there right 
before the OKC AIS National.  They were having unseasonably cool weather, so 
much so that the daylilies were not opening until well into the morning.  

You will see every mode of dress at the AIS convention imaginable.  Keith 
McNames from Oregon will be there in his iris dress sox, iris tie, with 
numerous decorative iris pins, a probable iris lavender colored dress shirt 
and a coordinating suit.  Hooker Nichols will be in a respectable suit, as 
will most probably be all the AIS heads.  You will see women in everything 
from dressy slack suits to iris blouses and skirts to Bloomingdale's latest 
long formal attire and everything in between.   

As for Judy Keisling's AIS Ballot request.  JUDY!  That list is so long, it 
would almost be shorter to tell you what irises are NOT on the ballot...  :-) 
  I consider myself one to keep pretty up to date with all the latest and 
greatest introductions and usually get 35 to 50 iris catalogs a year that I 
all but memorize.  Last year when I read through the HM category for TB's, I 
only knew about 18 of them and out of those I'd seen less than half.  I'm 
sure the list had hundreds and hundreds of names on it.  

My AIS Ballot arrived Tuesday or Wednesday this week in a rainstorm and is 
still hanging in the garage hoping to dry out.  The pages are so stuck 
together though, I may have to write for another.  I think the Mail Person 
must have dropped it in a puddle and eaten his lunchtime snack before he ever 
bothered to pick it back up...  

I'm planning to be at both the Tuesday night judging schools that Perry Dyer 
is giving.  May spend just that night, hit a quickie garden on Wednesday 
morning and then make trax back home.  

For anyone DRIVING to DALLAS and passing through OKC, many of us are 
approaching various categories of peak bloom.  Perry Dyer told me tonight 
he's right between SDB and IB peak bloom.  I've had TB's in bloom for 3 weeks 
and have everything from MDB's to SDB's to IB's to BB's to TB's in bloom with 
buds on SIB's, SPU's, and am going out to check on the LA's tomorrow as both 
Louise Carson & Perry Dyer report buds on theirs already.  

I'm afraid OKC (as well as most of Oklahoma) has badly misjudged iris show 
scheduling for this year.  I envision the next two weekends will be the 
absolute best bloom for all.  The Sooner State early show was held last 
weekend.  There are NO shows scheduled for the next two weekends in Oklahoma 
whatsoever.  The next one is not til April 30th with most of them being May 
7th.  By then, with the warm weather we've been having, I could be into 
daylily bloom season wthout an iris left in sight.  

I'll let ya get back to your packin'....   Cheers!

Kath in OKC...  alias:  Kathy Poore  =^.^=   AIS Region 22,  USDA Zone 7

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