Hi ladies,
Glad to know I was missed. My wife lurks here quite a bit so if it seemed I was being rude I want to apologize.
I have not had but 1 day off in 3 weeks. I did take a vacation a month ago.
I spent 4 days in San Angelo with Ken landon. He is the owner, curator and master of all of the International Waterlily Collection. He knows more than just about anyone out there. It was a master class of sorts that I was able to learn a few tricks. As his pupil I wanted to help spread the word on his place, his knowledge and his discoveries. I took almost 1000 pictures over the 4 days including "2" new species. One that some know about and one that will cause waterlily books to be rewritten. I have spent what free time I have had {Not much...work sucks} creating a new website presence that will someday be a must visit spot for waterlilies on the web. I have not been posting here because of all of the time needed to get a new site up from scratch. Please go check out the site. 95% of the pix there are mine so you'll see a lot of new stuff. Also be sure to check out the new species and hybrid items. There is a lot of scientific material that I will be posting there as well once all of the red tape is handled from all of the agencies and universities that have any claim on it.
http://www.internationalwaterlilycollection.com/index.htmlPlease, if you go check it out, let me know your thoughts.
The big once a year party at the IWC is tomorrow. I had to fight to get off. Then I won't have another day off for at least another week or more.
I am driving all night tonight to get there in time for tomorrow morning, it is 8 hours away.
Over the next few weeks I'll probably put up a lot more new photos over there from the event.
I miss you folks too but am so swamped as I want this to be done right.
Tim