A Wild Aloha To You – All about food I think Rory is the only person who puts in pictures because he likes them and not because they have any special relevance to the story. On a scale of 1 –… Read More ›
#Flowers
THE INDOOR GARDEN
FOTD – January 24 – The Indoor Garden Only the Anthurium and the Green Orchid are in bloom right now, but there are buds on two other orchids. They are not close to blooming yet. They need a few weeks yet,… Read More ›
MORE YELLOW-GREEN ORCHIDS
FOTD – January 22 – Yellow-Green Orchids I should have been taking pictures of our little snow, but I was, instead, pulling veins from the middle of supposed cleaned and deveined shrimp. But I did get some pretty pictures of the… Read More ›
A NEW CAMERA, A MACRO LENS, AND A YELLOW-GREEN ORCHID
FOTD – January 20 – A new camera and a yellow-green Orchid Somewhere in the middle of the madly medical week, the camera I’ve been waiting for showed up. I’m sometimes astonished at Amazon’s packing. They send me a bag… Read More ›
RHODODENDRONS
FOTD – January 16 – Rhododendrons We had a great spring last year for rhododendrons. This year, without a proper winter and with the garden under full attack from invasive strangling vines, I’m not optimistic. Everything else was suffering through last… Read More ›
MACROS – THE GREEN ORCHID
FOTD – January 2 – The Green Orchid – New Macros I got to talking about my macro lenses and along came an urge to take some pictures rather than talking about taking pictures. I also took some pictures of my… Read More ›
WHAT MORE CAN I DO?
Looking at the world we live in isn’t a warm and fuzzy experience lately. There is so much wrong and what is wrong has been going wrong for ages. It didn’t start (contrary to all opinions to the contrary) with… Read More ›
FIVE GREAT GIFTS
5 Gifts I Love Getting Any of these gifts will never go to waste nor will they ever be “regifted.” No books. I’m sorry to say we have no room for any more. The ones we have are already exploding… Read More ›
HOLIDAY COLORS
CFFC: Holiday Colors Holiday colors as the holiday near their end. I enjoyed them, but I’m not sorry to see them go.
NO SNOW, JUST RAIN AND WIND
And now we wait for winter to end … While the rest of the country had bitter temperatures and heavy snow, we got torrential rains and hurricane-level winds. Our warmer weather lingered a couple of days longer and by the… Read More ›
SALT WHITE
CFFC: Salt White Colors Snow and ice. Mums and azaleas. Also, some snowy feathers.
A NEW ORCHID
FOTD – December 21 – THE NEW ORCHID Garry went and got me the one thing I’m delighted to have this Christmas: a new orchid. It’s a lovely shade of light apple green and it looks like it has been well… Read More ›
WHERE DID 2022 GO?
Share Your World 19th December Talk about time going fast! This year has sped by so quickly I almost can’t remember it. I remember fall because it was short and beautiful. I remember the drought because nothing grew except strangling weeds…. Read More ›
VIOLET WITH A SIDE OF WHITE
CMMC: December Violet or White Color For unknown reason, many — probably most — of our wild flowers are violet with white and pink running a close second — and bright yellow holding a solid third position. In the early spring… Read More ›
POINSETTIA
FOTD – December 14 – Poinsettia Every one of these lovely poinsettias up and died a day or two after I took the pictures. I don’t know why I have a black thumb for these plants, but I do. I won’t… Read More ›
BUDS AND FLOWERS
FOTD – December 10 – Buds & Blossoms Despite having just finished blooming with quite a lot of energy, my Christmas cacti are budding again so maybe — just this once — I will have cactus flowers at Christmas! It’s the… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 