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 ›
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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 ›
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 ›
ORCHIDS GETTING READY TO BLOOM
FOTD – December 20 – Orchids on the way The shoots are up and the buds are on the shoots! I think maybe at least three of them may bloom at the same time.
O IS FOR ORCHIDS
FOTD – September 28 – Orchids I always found orchids interesting but I had heard they were very difficult to grow, so I never tried. When Garry’s brother send him a pot of them as a birthday present, I had… Read More ›
AND NOW, MORE ORCHIDS
FOTD – July 10 – New Macro Orchids These were the first orchids I got, four years ago. It has been a very long four years. These usually bloom for a few months and then rest until the following spring…. Read More ›
LATELY ORCHIDS
Cee’s FOTD: Lately Orchids They are not gone yet, but they are getting soft and a couple of the dark pink ones have fallen off. I have one more orchid getting ready to set buds, but the three that have… Read More ›
MACRO ORCHIDS
FOTD – May 27 – Macro Orchids My orchids were just so pretty in the afternoon light. A few pictures from late in the day.
MOTHER’S DAY MACROS
FOTD – May 8: MOTHER’S DAY ORCHID MACROS Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers and children of mothers. I think the orchids are at their peak now. There are more buds and the last orchid is just beginning to… Read More ›
BUDS AND THE FLOWERS TO COME
FOTD – May 1 – Buds Outside, if it isn’t flowering, it’s not budding… yet. It’s a bit late, but it has been dropping to freezing at night, even though it warms up (usually) (but not today) during the day. We’ve… Read More ›
MORE ABOUT THE WHITE ORCHID
FOTD – April 18 – White Orchids Since I took these pictures yesterday afternoon, another bud has opened. I still had some of these I thought worth posting, so I’ll take new pictures tomorrow. Outside, it’s cold. It’s not as… Read More ›
BLOOMING AT HOME
FOTD – April 18 – Orchids, Anthurium, Cactus and Easter Lilies For a while, nothing — except the anthurium — was blooming. Now, everything is blooming. Well, almost everything. Two of the orchids are thinking about blooming, but haven’t gotten there… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 56 – ORCHIDS & A LILY
Completely different, but done on the same day.
ORCHIDS AND AN EASTER LILY
FOTD – April 12 – ORCHIDS WITH A SIDE OF EASTER LILY It was great to have a nice day without any rain and with sunshine through most of it. As evening was coming round, it started to cool down and… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 54 – ORCHIDS
From the “yesterday” drawing collection, I also drew orchids. I drew some more today, this time the new purple ones. Owen has bought me all of the special Primacolor sets including the “botanical” set. I used it to draw the… Read More ›
THE NEW ORCHID
FOTD – April 9 – A New Orchid It being Garry’s 80th birthday yesterday, his brothers sent him, which means me, a new orchid. I now have four, one for each of Garry’s birthdays. I can’t believe that either of… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 