FEBRUARY MEETING

Our February Garden Club meeting was held at the TPC Southwind Clubhouse.


President Lila brought some beautiful hats to show everyone and to inspire us to create our hats that we will be wearing at our flower show that will be held on April 30.

Judy Walker, a flower show judge, presented a wonderful program on "The Elements and Principles of Floral Design".

Here is Judy demonstrating her design skills and talents.

What beautiful ideas she has!

Before the meeting began, Nan presented Dave, who was playing poker in the Players' Grille at the Clubhouse that morning, with a little thank you gift for his help with transportation for some of the ladies on the snowy, icy night of the "French Kiss" dinner party.

BEAUTIFUL "FRENCH KISS" DECOR

Here's a little look at some of the fabulous decorating designs from the "French Kiss" evening. Nan and Pam really did a wonderful job! From the gorgeous table settings to all of the very special little exquisite details! OOO-LA-LA.

JANUARY 2010 MEETING

Our January Garden Club meeting was held at the TPC Southwind Clubhouse. Joan Doty, Master Flower Show Judge, was our guest speaker. She had a wonderful program for us about "Understanding the Elements of Floral Design." We learned a lot from her about basic design in preparing for our flower show coming up in April. After Joan's presentation, many of us stayed at the Club and enjoyed having lunch together.

We also had a drawing for the winners of the professional organizer services. This was the big fund raising project of the Ways and Means committee this year. Paula Brown (right) won the big prize of 10 hours of service and Shirley Williams (left) and Diane Baskin each won 5 hours.

Merry Moore (center), chairman of the Smokey Bear/Woodsey Owl National Poetry and Essay Contests Committee, gave a report on the contests' successes. Here with Merry, as the committee shows off some of the poster entries from some talented young artists, are Kathy Pileggi (left) and Elizabeth Blaylock (right).

OH! WHAT AN EVENING!

The "French Kiss" cooking class and dinner that was held on February 8 at Pam Duncan's beautiful home had to be the event of the year. What a treat to get to see Master French Chef Jose Gutierrez work his magic!



Starting the evening off with a glass of french champagne.

We all loved his accent! OOO-LA-LA!

Beautiful "french kiss" ladies enjoying time with the chef.

...and Tammy Faye showed up by the end of the evening! What great fun we had!

OUR ANNUAL HOLIDAY LUNCHEON

What a wonderful time we all had this year at the Holiday Luncheon that was held on December 14 at the home of Elizabeth Blaylock. Marsha Cobb, our Social Chairman, did a terrific job with planning a delightful day for everyone. This favorite event is one that is always looked forward to by us all. Marsha and Elizabeth bid "Season's Greetings" to everyone as they arrived.

Everyone gathered 'round Elizabeth's gorgeous tree and gave their best holiday smiles.

So much delicious food! What wonderful cooks we have in our Garden Club.

Cecelia, Carolyn and Phyllis enjoy visiting and chatting over lunch.

...and then comes the Ornament Exchange. GaNelle shows off the lovely ornaments that she chose.

NOVEMBER MEETING

What a lovely table Paula Brown sets. Her home was the location for the November meeting. Everyone always enjoys the social time before President Lila calls the meeting to order.

As usual, the horticultural specimens that were submitted at this months meeting were beautiful. Debbie always does a good job organizing and judging this.

A wonderful program, "A Mosaic of History, Archaeology and Native Plants", was presented by Dr. Robert Connolly, Director of the Chucalissa Museum. Southwind Garden Club has been actively involved over the past few years with various projects at Chucalissa such as the Chucalissa Arboretum and spring and fall plantings. We look forward to expanding our work with Chucalissa.

Linda is always eager and willing to serve with any Garden Club needs and projects. Here she is giving her committee report at the November meeting. She always does a fabulous job at anything that she puts her hand to.

Missy and Glenice converse afterward about what a great meeting it was!

OCTOBER GARDEN CLUB MEETING

Many beautiful, smiling faces attended the meeting at Linda's lovely home.

Everyone enjoyed a great program on the development of the new Miramiche Golf Course in Millington, TN.

Here, GaNelle and Judy set up a stunning display about their wonderful work on the Executive Residence Project.

Some beautiful horticulture specimens were submitted this month.