29 Monday Apr 2019
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Usually Monday would be reserved for monochrome photos, but yesterday some spring flowers were so vibrantly displaying their colors that an exception can easily be made for them. The tulips are from our garden, while the other two are plants we grow inside the house.
Tulips.
Clivia.
Orchid.
10 Sunday Feb 2019
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About this time of the year, our Orchids are blooming and a Calamondin Orange plant is showing off with a few colorful fruit, which are not sweet at all. Here are some shots I took yesterday inside the house under natural light.
White Orchid.
White Orchid.
White Orchid bud.
Calamondin Orange.
02 Friday Mar 2018
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I am writing this as a Nor’easter is raging outside, dumping rain and snow, with strong winds added to the misery. Keep safe, all of you who are affected by it!
A few days ago, some brave Crocuses were starting to bloom in the mild weather we experienced for a few days.
White Crocus.
Yellow Crocus.
Inside, the Orchid and Amaryllis are in full bloom, with no bud left that has not opened up yet.
Phalaenopsis Orchid.
Amaryllis Apple Blossom.
19 Friday Jan 2018
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Our orchids usually don’t bloom until March, but this year a new white orchid has been doing that since early January. No complaints from me, as we have no other plants with flowers at this time of the year.
January orchid.
Meanwhile, some more snow fell and provided interesting photos of the Crape Myrtle tree covered with it.
Crape Myrtle branches covered with snow.
A closer look at Crape Myrtle branch.
29 Sunday Jan 2017
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For this first post of the new lunar year (Year of the Rooster), here are three colorful photos of some favorite flowers encountered during our visit to Hội An, Việt Nam last November. The last two photos appeared on this blog before. This time, I reprocessed them to enhance the beauty of the flowers even more.
Hibiscus along a street in Hội An.
White Orchids at a homestay in Hội An.
White and purple Orchids at homestay in Hội An.
19 Saturday Mar 2016
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It is supposed to snow tomorrow, the first day of Spring for 2016, so I hurried out to capture some shots of the flowers that are starting to bloom around our house. Who knows, they may die if it gets below freezing tonight or in the next few nights.
In years past, I’ve seen our Magnolia Soulangeana trees covered with thousands of pink blooms, and withered brown flowers the next day, after a freeze. The yellow Butterfly Magnolia tree blooms later, so its flowers are usually, but not always, safe from frost.
Magnolia Soulangeana.
Crocuses, among the earliest to flower, may also be subjected to the same fate, although some will survive as they are supposed to be quite cold hardy.
White Crocuses.
Purple Crocus.
Most of the daffodils have not opened yet, and some may even survive a light frost as they close down their flowers at night.
Daffodils.
Meanwhile, inside the house, our ever dependable Moth or Phalaenopsis Orchid has started to bloom. So worse comes to worst, we will still be able to enjoy some Spring flowers.
Moth Orchid.
Moth Orchid.
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
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Our faithful orchid is blooming, the first flowers to do so after this long winter.
Phalaenopsis Orchid
Phalaenopsis Orchid
12 Wednesday Mar 2014
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This orchid on our coffee table has been blooming year after year, and I never get tired of taking its picture. This one was shot with natural light coming from a window.
