A Day at the Iris Garden and Channel 10 News

As you can see...we made the trip to Fairplay California yesterday to see all the beautiful Iris at Bluebird Haven Iris Garden. They have 2900+ varieties of Iris. The colors (I didn't realize Iris had so many colors).....are absolutely beautiful....this is a Victorian show garden in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. An acre of landscaped iris, daffodils, wildflowers, and shrubs and trees. They have a large Victorian gazebo, arbors, park benches, wandering paths for viewing the irises and selecting your favorites, and picnic tables. All the iris are in PEAK bloom now...and it really is breathtaking....as you wander up and down through the paths you keep a little pad and pencil with you to mark down your favorite irises name and number..names such as "Dutch Chocolate"....."Lilac Light"......"Golden Sunshine"....all of the iris bulbs are for sale (from 3.00 to 6.00 per bulb)...they dig them up in July and August and send them to you...if you place an order.
Andy and I had a great day....I packed us a picnic lunch...we sat among the flowers at one of the picnic tables and enjoyed ourselves....
Another thing happened also......I was meandering down one of the paths...taking photos of all the flowers...Andy mentioned something to me about ( "Vic...you need the camera that is behind you")...I said "what?".....and turned around...there standing just a few feet behind me was Tom Whitiker from KCRA Channel 10 News...one of the BIG news stations out of Sacramento. We started talking....one thing lead to another...and all of a sudden he says to me "May I interview you?"......."Wha"??????? "yeah....sure". (Oh God!) So......after I got all hooked up with microphone wire under my t-shirt...and a little box clipped to the pocket of my jeans, another clipped to the neck of my t-shirt..off we go walking among the iris...he stands back adjusting his huge outrageous looking camera and just starts asking me questions...he says to me ....okay...watch the 5 or 6 o-clock news tonight....Andy and I shake his hand...and move on....(by the way..he was a really nice down to earth guy)..
SO.........GUESS WHAT??????????? Tom was not kidding!!!!!! I was on the 6-oclock channel 10 news last night....!!!!!!!! (talking about my day at the iris garden)......