Weekly Photo Challenge – Unusual

Unusual Orchid ” Lady’s Slipper Orchid” “Yellow Lady’s Slipper”                                                                                 Photography by Isadora   “Red Lady’s Slipper Orchid”                                                                          Photography by Isadora Orchids are seducers. They trick animals into pollinating them and usually give nothing in exchange. Some orchid species mimic nectar-producing flowers to lure bees; others emit the fetid smell of rotting meat to attract carrion flies. [...]

Weekly Photo Challenge – Hope

              “Hope” is a feeling or belief that something desirable will happen or is possible. These little orchid buds are having “Hope” that soon they will look like the others below.  Delight in their beauty …                         The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do … anonymous A smile – is [...]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Possibility

This weeks Photo Challenge is : Possiblity. Anyone who has tried to grow orchids knows that the possibility is pretty slim that they will bloom. They are not difficult to grow but they require a different type of care. They do not like their feet wet and love to be fertilized every other week. Hungry [...]

“My Orchid World”

“My Orchid World” One day, we must all face the passivity of retiring. It is of immense difficulty for men to do than for women. Women seem to manage to find something to occupy themselves with; even if it just keeping our homes clean and tidy. I chose to take up gardening. I always loved [...]

Attitude and Prospective

: I woke up early today excited over all I have to do before the clock strikes midnight tonight. I have responsibilities to fulfill: as all of us do. My job is to choose what kind of day I’m going to have. I am sitting on my lanai next to my pool overlooking a lake [...]