Bruce's Letters

The Cactus Patch

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE BAKERSFIELD CACTUS & SUCCULENT SOCIETY
presents

Letters from Bruce Hargreaves

Bruce's opinions are his and are not necessarily that of the BCSS

2012

Hectic Days are Here Again
January 2012

2011

Pollination & the Past December 2011
Fairs, Show & Isaac in Bakersfield November 2011
To Greenville with Isaac October 2011
Rock Art at China Lake September 2011
Carmageddon and the Convention End August 2011
Field Trips July 2011
Easter & the CSSA June 2011
From Long Beach to the Hotel Rwanda May 2011
The Peace Corps Turns 50! April 2011
Joshua Tree and Jurupa Mountain March 2011
Somewhere the Sun is Shining February 2011
Feasting January 2011

2010

If It Weren’t For Bad Luck, I’d Have No Luck At All! December 2010
Fairs and Shows November 2010
Relaxing with Films & Books October 2010
Vacations September 2010
Football -- World Style August 2010
Journey To The Center & the Past July 2010
Santa Cruz Island June 2010
Flowers!!! May 2010
Curiouser and Curiouser April 2010
Valentines and Other Days March 2010
A Crazy Cactus Christmas February 2010
Too Much Celebrating! January 2010

2009

An Empty Month Fills Up December 2009
Too Little Month... November 2009
The Huntington & The Sierras October 2009
Las Vegas Birthday September 2009
C.S.S.A. Tours August 2009
Easter at C.S.S.A. July 2009
C.S.S.A. Opening June 2009
Prelude May 2009
Early Spring April 2009
A Nostalgic Month March 2009
A Peripatetic New Year February 2009
A Very Busy Year Ending January 2009

2008

To the Pacific and Bakersfield December 2008
Tracing a False Family History November 2008
L’Ocean (Halifax to Montreal and Toronto) October 2008
To The Atlantic Again September 2008
A Wedding of a Different Colour August 2008
Canadian Origins July 2008
The Evangeline Trail June 2008
From ENGLAND to NEW ENGLAND May 2008
Millennium Seed Bank April 2008
HELIGAN March 2008
EDEN February 2008
Salt Marsh and Stately House January 2008

2007

Shangri-La December 2007
Serendipitous Succulents in Pilgrim's Plymouth November 2007
Battling Bureaucracy October 2007
Hanging Around September 2007
A Final Museum Month August 2007
A Final Fling July 2007
A Fizzled Festival June 2007
The Tripping Continues May 2007
Gcwihaba at Last! April 2007
A Slow Startup March 2007
A Pyrrhic Victory February 2007
A Surfeit of Cinema January 2007

2006

Red Sands & White Pans December 2006
Forty Years?!! November 2006
No visitors October 2006
The North! September 2006
150 Guests Plus One August 2006
Time On Our Hands July 2006
More Martha June 2006
Back to Busy-ness May 2006
More Caves April 2006
Drought to Flood March 2006
Grampa Bruce! February 2006
Who Is Bruce & Why Is He Sending Me Letters? January 2006

2005

Visitors & A New Spurge December 2005
Giants & Pirates November 2005
Over-Cultured October 2005
Movies to the Max September 2005
Anne's Odyssey August 2005
A Busy Interlude July 2005
A New Crassula June 2005
Too Many Nights Out May 2005
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly April 2005
CROWDS! March 2005
A Quiet Christmas February 2005
Millennium Madness January 2005

2004

Trouble in Paradise December 2004
It Never Rains But It Pours November 2004
A Long Dry Spell October 2004
The Land of the Rooibos September 2004
Jumping Back In August 2004
A Whirlwind Home Leave July 2004
Isle of the Singing Dogs June 2004
Diversity May 2004
Limbo April 2004
The Eyes Have It March 2004
Panned Out February 2004
Meetings, Music & Movies January 2004

2003

Good Hope & The New Millenium December 2003
The Mountains of the Gods November 2003
High On Hoodia? October 2003
Boy Scouts & Other History September 2003
PERFUME and Other Plant Products August 2003
Poison July 2003
Tires, Trees and Oddities June 2003
The Festival That Almost Wasn't May 2003
Meetings!!!! April 2003
Things Fall Apart - Again March 2003
Circling The Okavango February 2003
A Journey To Remember January 2003

2002

Spring(s) in Botswana	December 2002
A Fiery Month	November 2002
A New Euphorbia!	October 2002
On Stage and After	September 2002
Almost To Hel & Back	August 2002
What's New at Natural History	July 2002
A Very Busy Month	June 2002
A Marathon Month	May 2002
A Better Month	April 2002
Things Fall Apart	March 2002
Back To Bakersfield (Briefly)	February 2002
Two Camps	January 2002

2001

Failure And Music	December 2001
Children And A Child	November 2001
Celebration	October 2001
The Far East	September 2001
Southern & Kgalagadi Districts Trip	August 2001
Tsodilo	July 2001
The Morale Hills	May 2001
Pitsane & Gaborone	April 2001
Beginning Again	March 2001

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