Orchids - Blog Posts
Kitchen Dining in Miami Small medium tone wood floor kitchen/dining room combo photo with white walls
A short clip from the safari at Port Lympne zoo as well as some pretty little common twayblade orchids that were growing there
I went along to a guided walk at Denge Wood near Canterbury (Kent, UK). The walk was run by butterfly conservation and we got to see some amazing butterflies, moths, orchids and lizards.
Including the Duke of burgundy butterfly, the green hairstreak butterfly, the dingy skipper, brimstones, orange tip butterflies, lady orchids, early purple orchids and twayblade orchids.
Unfortunately my camera is being mended so I had to take photos on my phone. But you can at least get an idea of how pretty they all are.
I would strongly recommend a visit if you are in the area and I recommend checking out the butterfly conservation website for local walks if you live in the UK as they are free and very informative.
Library - Transitional Living Room
Formal - Living Room
Example of a mid-sized classic formal and enclosed carpeted living room design with beige walls, no fireplace and no tv
Six 1955 Somali stamps, each depicting native flora of Somalia
Seven 1998 Somali stamps, each depicting a different orchid
🌸 #Orquídeas #Orchids #Orchidaceae (en Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsoXuvuhsvp8ULJ086GJ4whrUuOq1sk60IiFKw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dszstkwe8szo
Loft-Style Living Room Living room: A contemporary loft-style idea with a light wood floor and beige walls, a ribbon fireplace, a plaster fireplace, and a wall-mounted television.
New York Transitional Living Room Example of a large transitional formal and enclosed dark wood floor living room design with beige walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and no tv
St Louis Compact Small elegant brick floor sunroom photo with no fireplace and a standard ceiling
Patio - Vertical Garden Inspiration for a mid-sized tropical backyard patio vertical garden remodel with decking and a gazebo
Contemporary Powder Room - Powder Room Inspiration for a small contemporary powder room remodel with flat-panel cabinets, black cabinets, brown walls, a vessel sink, granite countertops and black countertops
Lay down looking up at the cracks in the ceiling.
Like I'm floating is it real or am I just dreaming?
I can see them clearly orchids flower through the gaps
And a pleasant warm feeling starts to grow in my chest.
Contemporary Deck (Miami)
The backstory
Funny story about these orchids: I got one of the centerpieces from our student design show reception in April. It was the end of the night, and we were cleaning up the area, and there was a remaining orchid after all of the students and guests had theirs, so one of my colleagues said that I should take it home for my wife.
I know very little about flowers, but what I did know was that orchids were supposed to be finicky. It was a cold night, so I warmed the car. There was a support clip that the orchid stems were attached to a small rod on, to train them up. I set it carefully in the cup holder and began to drive home.
As I turned right at some point, my elbow hit the plant, snapping the stems almost in two in two different places. Aaagh! If not for bad luck I'd have no luck at all!
So I ran into the house, and grabbed some packing tape, wrapping it around the stems, propping them up. Yeah..that should work I thought to myself. Using the logic of a mischevious six year old, I brought the plant in and showed it to my wife.
She also was disappointed about my careless elbow, and slightly amused at my packing tape "cast." But we figured that we'd give it a go anyway. After about a week, one of the stems showed signs of dying, so I pulled it off and tossed it. The other seemed to be OK though, so I kept it in the sun and kept on watering it.
It appears to have come through OK (knock-on-wood). You can see in the top pic the areas where both stems snapped, and the one surviving stem thriving with two flowers, and a new "bud" forming behind them. The tape is till in place (afraid to remove it for fear of breaking it again).
The photos
On a rainy Wednesday, I thought I'd photograph this survivor for kicks. Put a cheap poster board v-flat behind it, and propped it up on pizza boxes. Used only window light (which admittedly wasn't much on this very gray day).
I also wanted to see under similar conditions what I could get out of the old iPhone 4 camera I have (5 mp). The bottom two shots are from the iPhone. They are a bit more contrasty, and have some noise in the bgnd, but look really good in average light conditions. There is also a bit of the flat and tape that got caught in the shot as the angle of approach is different with the phone (tried to smooth the tape on the flat out, and looks sad I know). The data on the iPhone shots is saying they are f2.8, and 1/120 to 1/60th of a sec? What that means on a lens that is a few mm is pretty relative, but still impressive. I imagine the Samsung and the iPhone 5 would look even better.
Oh...and guess what happened next? The flimsy V-flat fell onto the plant. But alas— alive and well still. That thing is like ROCKY.
Orchids
Source: HouseOrial
Summer Days
