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 ›
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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 ›
THE LAST BOUQUET OF 2022
FOTD – January 8 – The last bouquet of 2022 It’s been around for a couple of weeks and still in good shape. It’s nice to have a living remembrance of recent holidays.
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 ›
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 ›
MY GREEN ORCHID
FOTD – December 22 – A Green Orchid with Polka-dots I had to re-pot this beauty this morning. It was, believe it or not, too big for the pot it came in. It’s the first time I’ve ever had a… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
END OF THE AUTUMN BOUQUET
FOTD – December 3 – The Nearly Dead Autumn Bouquet I actually like how autumn flowers dry. This was almost the end of this bouquet. A few more days and it hit the trash can.
NOW, FULLY BLOOMING
FOTD – November 22 – Fully blooming cactus flowers Today I realized my macro lens is out of alignment. It has always been temperamental, but in the last couple of days, no matter what I do, it will not focus in… Read More ›
HAVE A LITTLE FAITH
FOTD – November 7 – Faith and Flowers I’m not big on blind faith. Our pastor (the one I liked who left) asked me if God himself came down to visit me, would I ask for a picture ID? I thought… Read More ›
AUTUMN LEAVES
FOTD – November 4 – Autumn Leaves It’s really a pun because the autumn is leaving, but this is about autumn leaves. English is a funny language sometimes.
WHEN THE MUMS WERE WHITE
FOTD – November 1 – When the chrysanthemums were white Combing through recent files from October, I realized I had folders of photos I’d never looked at — just downloaded. October is always a very busy photo month. You have… Read More ›
MIXED MUMS BEFORE THE FREEZE
FOTD – October 30 – Mixed Mums It must be true because Alexa has been percolating all day with the big news: it’s going to freeze overnight! I mentioned this to Garry who said, “Yeah, and is that news? Doesn’t… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 