Murphys CA ADS spring convention

Murphys, CA has a Facebook page in case you want to get better acquainted with the town before our ADS Convention there in March. 

http://www.facebook.com/MurphysCA?v=wall#/MurphysCA?ref=mf

Also, Ironstone Vineyards, our host for the convention, has daffodils as their themed art competition for their spring show.  The show will still be up during our convention.  I thought some of you might like to enter a photo or other artwork in the competition:

Call to Artists! Entry forms are available for Ironstone’s 13th annual Spring Obsession Art Show and Sale. Theme Division “An Obsession of Daffodils” (to tie in with the National Daffodil Convention) are due January 8th. 2010 and the Open Division Entries are due February 5th. 2010.  Open division is any subject matter, any media with a $1000 first prize, $500 second prize and $250 third prize.  Theme Division winner awarded $500.00 prize and becomes the poster for the year 2010. Art work must be original, cannot have been exhibited at Ironstone in the past, must be for sale and 2-dimensional.  Entry forms are available at the winery or from the Ironstone website www.ironstonevineyards.com

I received this email notice about the contest and the Facebook page from visiting the Murphys webpage and signing up for their emails.  Murphys looks like quite a place!  I hope to see a lot of you there in March!

Attached is a photo from the Chicago Botanic Garden taken during our 2009 ADS Convention.  I was thinking about all the innovative daffodils I’ve seen the last few years (red rose colored rims, all the green ones with viridiflorus breeding) and about the phrase “Daffodils…they’re not just yellow anymore.”   I’m wondering if someday we’ll hear people say, “Daffodils…they’re not just red and green anymore.”  Who knows what the future will bring!?  ;->