Finally!

OMG I've finally met Hortense Pittman! My life is complete.

OMG Remember April?

John and Patty Daniel brought my favorite little bird friend to Plano! I'm sooooo happy to see her and I'm giving her all the head scritches she wants. 

Judgey Time!

Holy smokes, Lone Star puts on a helluva show! Over 400 entries, all just about perfect! 
I got to clerk for judges Bill Price, John Carter, and Dolores Gibbs, in the "other gesneriad" classes. OMG wait until you see a couple of the micro sinnies I spied. But for now, I gotta finish placing the ribbons. More pics later!

Bill Price <3

He's also great. Yep!

Bill Foster <3

He's great. That's all.

Road Trip!

Greetings from Austin, Texas, where Jenny and I are just leaving to go to Plano for the Lone Star African Violet convention!

Seeeeee y'all!

Another Micro Sinningia Seedling..

A new blossom opened her face among the seedlings of my muscicola x Li'l Georgie cross. Cute, but nothing special.

Pretty neat all the same, because every time one of my own cross seedlings blooms, it's magical. I just look at it in awe like, "I hybridized that. I made a plant!"
Yep. But I still think I can do better. :)

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Stripey Micro Sinningia Blooms Again!

My little cross is blooming again, ain't she cuuuute? Couple of the flowers threw 6 petals this time, which is especially neat looking, but I've learned that just happens sometimes. They're also kinda faded, I was away for a few weeks so I didn't get to snap a pic of them "fresh".
I really should get to propagating it to see if the stripes will be on future generations.. Then if it stays awesome, I could name and register it! *dreeeaaammm*

So, This Happened..

I just haaaaad to order some super cool address labels with my new favorite pic!
I got them on ebay from simply*sally. You use whatever pic you want and choose your own font & layout style. She emails you immediately with a sample to go over everything before printing. They're frikken laser printed, super profesh, highly recommended!! And I wasn't asked by her for a plug on my blog--She earned it fair & unaware! 

PS I knowwwwwww I need to update that Optimara entry and I also have eleventy billion pics of show plants from convention to upload, I just haven't gotten to it yet! But I will, I will.