join the PRA team on its latest adventure!

starring pohonkelapa as "guy with the van!"

osideterry as "artistic bearded guy" named terry(from o-side)!

and kim as "kim!"

i am one of 18 erstwhile photographers who took this exact pic but all the rest thought everyone else would post it so no one else did.

PRA team springs into action!

water should not be that green.

kim points towards the earths magnetic center lest any of us forget.

one of these 2 displaying the CORRECT camera carrying technique.

freakypalmguy cant believe he's at a meeting AND someones taking his picture.

i love c.mitis.

really.

"wow.seems like terry was just here."

"yeah.sure does."

when asked "where is the nearest dypsis decaryi?" bill sanford responds in his own inimitable fashion.

palm labeled as "brahea edulis" reveals its charms.

meeting of the minds.

palm crowd includes members of zz top.

bill sanford immediately immerses himself among the palms upon arrival at the amazing garden of ralph velez.

the glee on bills face is obvious.

len realizes he just stepped on one of two chambeyronia lepidota outside of their natural habitat.

dont worry len,i wont tell anyone.

burretiokentia infloresence.

"nice dreads."

credit goes to nick.

underside cryosophilia leaf & top of blondedudes head.

remarkably similiar.

slick willy.

have i ever seen one that big?

i havent.

joe in seedling heaven.

with "foiru."

mattyb will get it.

giant palm-tumor.

nick put to sleep by lens boring stories.

again.

pinanga coronata.dont see many this nice in socal.

not in my yard,at least.

guihaia.

"in yer face,home depot!"

kevin weaver on left.

his indian name translates to: "many-greenhouses-but-watch-out-for-dog-crap-between-them."

coccothrinax species.

is "specie" a word? i dont think so.

i love licuala spinosa cuz its the only licuala that doesnt croak the moment it enters my yard.

this is the sad part.

the good news is this copernicia baileyana was only a few feet away & was untouched.

most trunk ive ever seen on a bizzie.

some dewds trying to get free palms from louie hooper.

gastrococos crispa.

someone glued a buncha toothpix to the leaves.

some kinda wonderful.

i stole that from a song.

"i dream of rhopie with the deep green crown."

pinanga again.

wow.

dypsis "pink crownshaft?"

how many of these have i killed now?

the definition of "velezed."

mike,yer hats on backwards!

"variegescence."

i just made that up,matt.you gonna try & steal that too?

some guy i see at all the meetings who is probably a cool guy since he's into palms but dont know so i will ridicule for wearing red-on-red.

coccothrinax leaf.

in the hothouse.mottled leaf.

pinanga caesia.

dave please insert some appropriate screams.

another pinanga--emergent leaf.

wrestling match between terry & the palm was a split decision.

i scored in favor of the palm although terry put up a good fight.

i wonder what this is?

anthuriums are cool,i dont care what u say.

the next generation.

"The foiru horuds soiru"

Pinanga caesia, I've killed two of those in the past, now I can't find them anymore, probably best.

Nice pics returnopoho. But that guy you I.D.'d as me can't be me, that guy has no hair.

Thanks Paul for all the great photos! Too bad MattyB wasn't here to do the dueling photo w/ comments thing again. I think in Post #11 picture 3 is a Pinanga speciosa.

Always a unique point of view, pohondewd, you made me laugh.

Why is it I have all the same photos? Mine will be old news by the time I get them posted... But I will torture everyone with them anyway!!!!

Be patient. Good torture takes time...

OK, Paul very funny commentary. I'll give you this one. But next time.....

Thanks for all the great photos and commentary, "The return of po..."! Excellent coverage! New name seems a bit long, though! Plus, it automatically reminds me of our neighbor's dog, "Po", which means night or darkness in Hawaiian!

mike i think yer right,that is p.speciosa.

maybe i should concentrate more on correct IDs & less on snarkasm.

nah.

"The foiru horuds soiru"

"boiru the soiru in foiru."

it was funny at the time.

kevin weaver on left.

his indian name translates to: "many-greenhouses-but-watch-out-for-dog-crap-between-them."

I've stepped in poop at Kevin's place quite a few times. Who cares when you're walking away with tons of cheap palms?

Hello!

Very nice pics, prince of snarkness.

If you had not given names, I hasn't identified any .

Thanks for sharing, and excuse my English ... (its not very good)...

Regards.

Nice pics returnopoho. But that guy you I.D.'d as me can't be me, that guy has no hair.

matt it is entirely possible that is NOT you,since i have never seen you before.

if i were you (& i'm not) i'd be pissed that theres some guy going to palm meetings saying he's you

& having all the fun.

Ohhhhh, now I get it. Boyoodu dah soilyoodoo ina foiyoodoooooo. Hayite!

Must be a kind of PRA dialect, because I would have never gotten it before.

Edited March 24, 200917 yr by osideterry

So we must not refer to you in this manor anymore?

what "manor?" i live in a regular house.

i was trying to get a pic of those cool cinder blocks but the stupid plants kept getting in the way.

terry strikes his "action" pose.

pinanga & licuala--2 "tough grows" for socal but ralph pulls it off.

" 'velez' powers activate!!!"

terry is thinking "yer gonna say something snarky about this pic later.arent you?"

i think i've used that joke before but its so true this time.

"waiter i'd like the duo of hyophorbe."

sorry,too much "top chef."

check out the bizzie peeking over the roof.

i was flabber- or some similiar kind of -gasted.

pleasure centers of my brain were melting at this point.

a little "muffin-top" action.

this dypsis madagascarienensis was next to the hyophorbes.didnt think much of it till i finally looked up.

this cant be happening.

kevin weaver & our own dave from socal get the auction rolling.

heres our pal wayne looking on.

wayne i see u have a camera--post some pix!

yes,i'm talking to you!

that was an "over-the-shoulder" shot--the gray sweatshirt is mine.

this looks like the palm osideterry donated--good job,terry!

dave doing his best vanna white.

all that stuff in yer pockets make yer thighs look fat,dave.

jerry anderson throws down some auction riffage.

yes,thats a word.

a little "tattered," like the stones song.

Paul,

You commentary and full size pictures gruntle me as usual. Wish I could have made the meeting, but had another engagement.

Yea, me too. I had a slight reason why I couldn't come.

Jeff

a little "muffin-top" action.

I think if you plant them this close together, they actually morphe into one palm. In this case, we are looking at a Hyophorbe Verschafindica. Uncommonly seen.

Great photos! Stick with the sarcasm it keeps smiles on the faces of everyone around you.... Maybe that's why it looks like everyone is having such a good time!

the definiton of "tumescence."

jack in disguise as "the guy with no job."

heres what it would look like if jacks head was grafted onto ralph velez like some 50's B movie.

it could happen.

c.adscendens .

what a trollop.

heres terry trying to find his way out of ralphs garden.

sadly,he never did.

parting shot.thanks ralph!

bill forced us to eat sushi with him by saying he had our respective household pets held hostage with lasers pointed at their groins

ala sean connery as james bond.

it worked on me.

heres bill doing his taxes.

from 1973.

then bs man had a CVA(cerebral vascular accident) & simultaneously realized the walls of the sushi restaurant were made of BUTTER.

terry was a good sport about being too uncoordinated to use chopstix.

i promised i wouldnt say that.

something that looked like sushi.

welcome to the end of another PRA event! thanks for joining us!

later!!!!