The Big Winter Grind

As the winter sets in and the snow may fall, I am grinding the last of the manzanita leaves for Fiesta Parade Floats, thinking of the year to come.  February is busy with a trip to New Orleans and the Mardi Gras festivities.  Then, it's off to Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Flower Show.  There I get to work with Bill Shaffer and Kris Kratt.

OK, now on to March.  Getting home from Philly on March 4th, my anniversary follows close on the 8th.  Baltimore, here I come, for the AIFD National Board Meeting, where I get to find out what it is to be a regional chapter president.  Home for a few days, then I am off to Amsterdam for rest, research, and recreation in a few tulip fields.  (Tip toe through the tulips.)  I am going to come back fro Holland rested and full of inspiration for "California Natural: Spring on the Mountain," April 27-29, 2012.

As you can see, my calendar is filling up fast.  And all I can see from my chair is up through April.  I wonder what May has me doing?

Back to the big Grind and finishing this year's work.  Look here on my blog for up to date and on location at the Fiesta Float Barns; I will be showing how the manzanita leaves get from the mountain to Colorado Boulevard.

THE ROAD TRIP STARTS DECEMBER 25.

California Natural is now blogging

California Natural has entered the blog-o-sphere.  We shall make strides in design using natural products hand-selected from the mountains of the Sierra Nevada range.  "Come with me and you'll see a world of pure imagination" as we will be taking a nature walk through the mind and soul.  We will find inspiration in some new places....

As a child, I would often spend time at my family's cabin where the beauty of nature provided ample wildflowers, moss, and manzanita to create arrangements with my wild imagination.  Together, we will remember our childhoods, when we picked up a stick, and suddenly, it became a laser gun or a light saber....

'Stick' around for more on California Natural.