Gordon was also a very active member of our group. He was a regular attendee of our monthly meetings, joined us on many field trips and always worked the Show & Sale. He had a fondness for our local endangered cactus Opuntia basilaris var. treleasei, the "Bakersfield Cactus." He would often update us when it was flowering and once even led an informal field trip to, of all places, the East Hills Mall (where there is a colony of the Bakersfield Cactus).