Weekly Photo Challenge – White
Queen Anne’s Lace
A white world after the snow
White-breasted Nuthatch
WEEKLY WHITE – Marilyn Armstrong
Category: orchids
REIGNING CACTUS – FOTD – Marilyn Armstrong
Reigning Cactus – FOTD – 03/08/2019
I’m going to miss this cactus when it finally stops blooming. Fortunately, I have a getting-ready-to-bloom orchid pushing its way upward.
Just about when the cactus finishes, that should be full of buds. I hope!
I’m going to be at the hospital today so I won’t be answering comments or writing anything until tomorrow. Sorry!
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Tuesday: Garden
I used to be a more enthusiastic gardener but my outdoor gardening days have become pretty limited. I manage to get into the garden once a year and clip everything back and pull out all the dead stuff from the previous year, but that’s pretty much “it” for me.
I love my indoor garden. It’s not huge, but it’s pretty and I can manage it … which is a powerful reason to love it. I look daily at my soon-to-be blooming Christmas cactus and the shoot of upcoming orchids.
THE FLOWERS I’VE GROWN: CEE’S FUN FOTO CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things People Grow
I grow flowers. I don’t do it in any organized way, but somehow, they grow. I grow things in pots — inside and outside. I have a wild rose and daylily garden that suddenly has become a huge rhododendron garden and we have the biggest holly bush I’ve seen.
I’ve got some very old lilacs, a few very young lilacs, astilbe and goat’s beard, a few random daffodils, and crocus. There used to be others, but they didn’t survive. At one point, I had an amazing display of hollyhocks, but one year, they withered and died and I don’t have any idea why.
JULY 2018 – THE CHANGING SEASONS – Marilyn Armstrong
The Changing Seasons July 2018
This hasn’t been one of my best photographic months. It was raining, or extremely hot, or extremely humid — and hot. I am having a lot of trouble using the gallery function right now and I’ve been too busy to get in touch with WordPress. So I shall do the best I can.
My orchid continued to bloom up to four blooms — and it is still blooming!
Softly lit orchids – Photo: Marilyn Armstrong
Of course, the garden got really serious about blooming. The daylilies and the roses starred in the show.
And Garry went to Douglas and we both went to River Bend.
And then, Garry went in for his cochlear implant. He made it! Better every day.
And we got a new mattress and life has marched on. I haven’t done a lot of photography, but it has been an exceptionally busy and complicated month!
The Changing Seasons
The Changing Seasons is a monthly challenge where bloggers around the world share what’s been happening in their month.
If you would like to join in, here are the guidelines:
The Changing Seasons Version One (photographic):
- Each month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery that you feel represent your month
- Don’t use photos from your archive. Only new shots.
- Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so that others can find them
The Changing Seasons Version Two (you choose the format):
- Each month, post a photo, recipe, painting, drawing, video, whatever that you feel says something about your month
- Don’t use archive stuff. Only new material!
- Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so others can find them.
If you do a ping-back to Su Leslie’s post, she can update it with links to all of the others.
ALL FOUR ORCHIDS, STILL BLOOMING – Marilyn Armstrong
Flower of the Day – Orchids
It’s kind of amazing, but the orchids are still blooming. No sign of wilting. They look brand new. So I figured I should take some pictures since I had the camera in my hand.
SERRIED ORCHIDS ON A STALK – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP # 33: Serried
Well. Now here’s a word I’ve never used.
Never even heard it, actually. Nonetheless, it’s not a bad word for a group of flowers on a stem.
Rather like my orchids, for example. Oh, I haven’t talked about the orchids lately, but they are still blooming.
No new ones (no new buds), but looking remarkably hardy. Orchids are nothing if not sturdy flowers.
So, here are some serried orchids for your consideration.
