Here are a few photos. I was unofficially the RU photographer but please don't yell because I did not get a group photo!!!
The MAYPOP garden greeter!
Maypop 2011 photos
Folks are arriving!
Sally, hubby and Sandy............. is that dessert?
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Brenda/plantnutz - good to see you!!!!
Our great hostess, Laurel, giving Valerie the Grand Garden Tour. A really lovely garden!!
Coupla the boys, heading for the house- is it lunch yet???
That was Bill and Johnny in the last photo, I believe!
Linny and Sally found a place in the shade to sit and gab!
Linny. She is very pretty. Sorry for the slight blur, tho.
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Sweet Sally!
There were two Brenda's at the RU. This is plantnutz!
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Sally's Johnny!
Caught Sandy and Valerie smiling!
Busy, busy getting a gourmet lunch for the attendees.
Laurel and Steve.
Yummy roasted veggies.
Fantastic pasta dish.
Laurel's homemade hummus.
Everything was so delicious, most of us ate too much!!
Here are some of us, enjoying the food and company.
Looking over some of the trade plants.
Getting ready to head home after a beautiful day at Maypop.
I didn't get enough pictures . This is Bill , he's Linny's sweetie . All the way from S. Carolina . Not far as the crow flies , but that doesn't take in consideration of the mountains and hills to go around .
Food , my favorite subject . (you can tell by looking ). This was so good I wanted to go back for seconds . The pasta salad was to die for .
Can you believe this Mike ? With a smile like that , he should be in pictures
Looks like good time, good folks, and good food...Where was Terry? Jo
That's what I call comfortable .Kiseta , what a pretty name , A sweet lady , wish she lived closer to us .
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Terry backed out , had too many issues with the car to trust it on the road, trouble trying to get it worked on .
By the way , a BIG hi to you Jo , sorry you missed this .You'd a loved it .
These guys are solving all the worlds problems .
Trying to make up my mind if I caught her coming or going . I think she had her eye on the food .
That pretty little redhead belongs to Bill and she unselfishly gave me her dog that I wanted forever . I just love the little monkey that he is .Is that val in the background? The thumbnail is so small , I can't tell
Yep , that's her .
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Maypop laurel , Finally got to eat . She has been so busy making sure everyone else had full tum tums, that we didn't leave her much . LOL . she had enough to feed 30 more and with the deserts , We all gained weight . Wonderful hostess , great R U and even better this year, if that's possible
OOOOPS, where'd the pic go ? Cyberspace ? This is better .
Oh you guys did great with the photos! Thanks so much. My only complaint is whatever program you used added thirty years and twenty pounds to my pics! What's with that?
Oh, no, Laurel. You and Steve are slim. I noticed that all of us look even broader than we are in the photos posted here. Something about the translation into DG.
Great photos, Sally. My DIL Sandy was doing some video @ Maypop but don't know if it will tranfer to Dave's. She could email it to you, if you like, Laurel!
I feel fat , but didn't know I looked fatter than I feel . Time to eat more raw carrots.
You explained that fat thing so well, Brenda. I almost believed it. I'll be in touch with the video. Maybe we can convert the frames to photos? That's a job for super computer guy.
Sally, I didn't know you took pics. Thanks a bunch. I especially love the photo of Mike. He looks like one happy guy. I also love the photo of Sandy and Valerie in the arbor swing. If you zoom you can even see some grapes on the left.
I am wanting to send notes to each of you. This morning I was hosing empty pots from planting and leaned away from my shoes. After spending two plus backbreaking days digging on banks to plant gifted daylilies, standing in pond muck ripping out pond grass to plant flag iris, and cutting a forty foot mulberry tree to plant raspberries, my back spasmed out with a simple little bend. I'm in a sorry state right now.
I am fur shure getting on a diet, and try to keep my eyes open next time. It was a lots of fun, but I have to stop going to getherings where food is served. You all been very nice, seams like you know each other from before.
Hi Kiseta. I hope you don't stop going to gatherings where food is served. You are such a good cook! DH is having a ball with your walnut cake. We both agree it reminds us of the kind of European cakes and strudels we grew up with. Delicious! We have used the Texas caviar as a salad topper instead of salad dressing and I'm going to use some to make a blackeyed pea and corn chili for dinner tonight. I'm a very good food recycler. :)
I am glad you did not mind me leaving in a hurry and you with my leftovers. I was worried about the weather turing bad and that famous hill of yours, I have never been on a steep driveway. I guess I am more comfortable on flat land. I have made black eyed peas different ways, and it is all good. Next time you make okra and tomatoe, put a can of vegt. black eye pea in it, I can eat a ton of it. I have a project next week, to pull up all my ajuga and replace it with some other perennial, samy shaddy area. I have trouble with large grasshoppers, 3" long, they eating everything up and the birds won't touch them. I hate to use chemicals, but probobly will have to spray something. Happy Gardening.
Laurel - that super cool wild plant you have that I asked you about? Looks like a philodendron but has a tall stem with daisy like flowers? it is a Silphium Compositum - Kidneyleaf Rosinweed.
Sterling, I see there is one nursery that has seed grown plants but the transplanting info I found indicates that it cannot be transplanted because of its deep taproots. If you'd like me to try and collect seed for you I'd be happy to do it. It's growing in numerous places on the property from deep woods to dry banks. Thanks for the ID. I thought I'd IDed it before but that name does not sound familiar.
It should grow well from seed. I would recomend winter sowing. Mike
Thanks - I'd like to try some seeds. It is a pretty leaf and such a surprise that the flower stalk goes up so high! I did not see hundreds of them so I think it is safe to say not too invasive!
Here is a picture of another resident of MayPop - oooohhhh!!!!!!
