Re: CULT: spring growth (and death)
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: spring growth (and death)
- From: s*
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 19:39:10 -0700
From: "sidneygardener" <sidneygardener@email.msn.com>
Dorothy,
You sound like you have trips like me. Hopefully this convention will be
memorable but not like the one with the broken ankle.
Cindy
-----Original Message-----
From: DWiris@aol.com <DWiris@aol.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: spring growth (and death)
>From: DWiris@aol.com
>
>In a message dated 2/5/00 9:33:20 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>sidneygardener@email.msn.com writes:
>
><< * By the way to anyone who read the last posting please let me apologize
>for
> my exaggeration of 70 mph winds. It was actually 36 mph sustained winds.
>>
>
>Dear Cindy:
>
>I do believe you have strong winds. Back in 1975 we drove to San Diego for
>the AIS Convention, but stopped to pick up my parents who were living in
>Carlsbad. We drove to Roswell to visit an iris garden and then on to
>Albuquerque to visit another one. Somewhere between Roswell and
Albuquerque
>we were hit by a tremendous sand storm. Our brand new car which had 300
>miles on it when we left home was pitted all over, but especially the
>windshield. West of Albuquerque we stopped at a nice rest area to have
>something to eat and couldn't keep the food on the table. Later that
evening
>we took off cross country from Grants to Page, Arizona, and ran into snow.
>Of course, the most exciting part of that trip was that the next morning I
>broke my ankle in Zion National Park. I spent the weekend in a hospital in
>Las Vegas having surgery on the ankle, but went on to the convention and
>toured gardens in a wheel chair. I even had my picture in the AIS Bulletin
>in the wheelchair.
>
>Dorothy Willott
>
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