Re: Aloha to you!

[Terry Aitken <terry@flowerfantasy.net>]

Jim
I hate coming home from Hawaii! I feel good just hearing from you. MANY 
MAHALOS originated with some communication with a Hibiscus grower in 
Honolulu where I got Hibiscus plants (now in bud and 6' tall in the 
greenhouse!) in trade for a collection of reblooming irises including 
Many Mahalos (considered an exotic plant in Hawaii). Honolulu is as 
close to a mainland city as you will find on the islands and maybe that 
is the difference. Outer Island natives/residents are much less 
"Americanized". Spanish? OK?! The north coast (windward side) of Kauai 
has some of the most stunningly beautiful coral sand beaches that I 
could possibly imagine. (Also the most jungle and mosquitos in the 
interior.) Kauai is a little sparce on orchid growers compared to the 
other islands so we dont go there often.
Your comments about Perry are right on. And, yes, I think the RVP rep 
should be scouring Region publications  for general interest material. 
(We can add that to the job description!) Region publications to the 
editor are sort of hit and miss. An extra pair of eyes sure helps.
Perry's Contemporary Views represents 48 pages of bulletin text - 
probably even 40 with reduced font size and reduced margines.???? No 
matter, they will not go to waste.
Terry - Aloha and Many Mahalos to you too!

MORRISJE1@aol.com wrote:

> Aloha!
>
> We just got back from three weeks in Hawaii and it will take some time to  
> get caught up and used to 32F after 70-80F days and nights.  And I put on  shoes 
> for the first time in three weeks too!  By the way Terry, I tried out  "many 
> mahalos" there (on Kauai) and was corrected by three different natives to  say 
> "mucho mahalos."  That seemed odd to me, mixing Spanish with Polynesian  but 
> maybe the mix of English with Polynesian is considered the same by  them.  Oh 
> well, many thanks for the iris.  Pele too.

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