by purple
This phalaenopsis was a birthday gift from my husband (about four months ago) and is just now dropping a couple of its blossoms. I love how long-lived the blooms are which is why he enjoys giving them to me instead of cut flowers.
It’s become a habit for me to scan the fallen yet still beautiful blooms for posterity. Some scanned phals from the archives: translucent, fallen phal, papery, freshly fallen
June 5, 2014 in Nature, Photoworks by Marja-Leena
Color, dry spots–all gorgeous.
Naomi, I am pleased you like this, and thanks for visiting!
A scanner is such a fantastic tool: it seems to capture in one everything we notice on separate lookings. Beautiful.
Olga, thanks, and yes, I love the scanner because I can get more fine details with such high resolution, even when reducing it for the web.
Some habits are so good! So brilliant and complicated…
Marly, I need to cultivate more good habits instead of being rather lazy. Now must get out in the garden, another sometimes neglected good habit….
That is the essence of purple.
Sounds like a new elixir – thanks!
It really is very lovely. I wonder if you’ve managed to keep the ones you got in other years? You’ve probably said so previously but I can’t recall right now.
I’ve just re-read a couple of old Rex Stout ‘Nero Wolfe’ novels. One of the best known aspects of these clever mystery stories was the fact one of Nero Wolfe’s main obsessions was his fabulous orchid collection kept in a rooftop greenhouse. The names alone are extraordinary. When i first read the books I had to imagine them, but now, thanks to the web, I can look up pictures of the rare ones.
Susan, I’ve often posted photos of my orchids over the years of this blog, most were gifts from my husband and a couple from friends. I think I have seven of the phalaenopsis ones right now, one or two gave up on me in the past couple of years. They don’t all bloom every year for me for I don’t fuss with them. I also have two very large winter blooming cymbidiums that do well in the unheated solarium.
I remember your mentions of Rex Stout’s books! Just now I finally checked our library – there are a few of the books, an audio book or two and some DVDs of the TV series based on the books. I’ve put a hold on one of the books to try out. A New Yorker version of Poirot, perchance?
Any one of the books is worth a read as, I expect, would be the audios. The funny thing about them is that they span forty years in NYC – 1934-1975 – and Nero, his associate Archie, Fritz the chef, and Theodore the orchid specialist, never age even as the city changes around them.
Whatever you do, avoid the TV series. We were very disappointed.
Thanks for the tips! I’ll let you know how I like the book…
Cymbidiums are beautiful. It’s too warm to grow them here, but up in Volcano Village at 4,000 feet they do well.
Hattie, you grow such a variety of unusual orchids in your home that I never see here!