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March 17, 2007
Wild Ones Meeting features Native Suburbia
This month's Wild Ones meeting featured our very own Native Suburbia. It was a live presentation of the information that we tried to convey in the articles that were published in the Wild Ones Journal. Benia and I put together a selection of pictures using JAlbum with the BananAlbum skin. I did most of the talking, with Benia chiming in when I missed something. She also operated the slide show which we ran on a Mac PowerBook G4. We were the first to use the new InFocus DLP projector that our Wild Ones chapter just purchased.
The presentation went well. I basically told the story based on the pictures. I didn't have a prewritten presentation, because I had seen the pictures so many times that each one reminded me of something. There were some good questions from the audience. It was a great opportunity to share our experiences with people and get real feedback.
The most important part of our presentation was the pictures that showed our yard every step along the way. We had taken pictures right from the beginning when Native Suburbia was still covered in lawn. It is so much fun to look back and marvel at how things used to be. I would encourage plentiful picture taking to everyone who embarks on adding native plants to their landscape. Then of course you should share the before and after pictures with everyone who will listen and perhaps we can spread the Wild Ones way far and wide.
If you were unable to attend the meeting then check out the slideshow here. Since it wasn't designed to share the layout of the rest of this site, it will open in a new browser window. Just click in that window and use the arrow keys to flip through the slides. The notes on the side were just to remind me of details. They were so small that the audience couldn't really see them.