For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Winter gold

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
One of my orchids is blooming, happy in the winter.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
I love orchids. The grocery store orchids like me too: I seem to give them the right amount of water, which is not too much. Just once a week.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
My table this morning is a mass of Easter, orchids, the local paper and books. There are placemats in there somewhere too.
This year’s eggs are the 2nd and third in front. Great colors this year, but these two are not blown, so won’t be kept. Next year!
For the Ragtag daily prompt: March.
March is flowers! I took this in February but now everything outside is budding, a little late for here. Usually my camellia is blooming by the end of January. The magnolia has heavy fuzzy buds and I have a fifth orchid, my tiniest sweetest one, blooming.
In the early morning before dawn
the orchids keep me company
cat and computer as I sit and write
I tried a desk but the sky doesn’t lighten
windows on three sides, the orchids and I
await the sun, cat now on my lap
this table was my grandmother’s
my mother loved flowers
my daughter says “The laptop’s in the way.”
Thank you orchids, cat and table
Thank you laptop, teacup, dawn
Thank you grandmother, mother, daughter
kitchen window blessing
My mother had plants all over a shelf running the length of their kitchen. She did a pen and ink drawing of the riot of flowers and pots and leaves. She then did a second one but this time the snapdragons were dragons and there were elves and fairies and monsters in all the plants.
My orchid is blooming riotously right now, with abandon, to the point where the pot barely stays upright. I love orchids, how long the blooms last, and how they would rather not be watered too much, and a flower that perches up on tree branches in jungles: how delightful and romantic is that? This one is in my kitchen window and makes me think of my mother.
the grocery store orchid
instructions
say
to water with a weekly cube of ice
no
think of the orchid
perched high in the rain forest
on the branch of a tree
in the canopy
an ice cube
seems cruel
once a week
I take each orchid
and place it in a glass container
and pour water soaking
like the rains
inundating warm water
and let it soak a little
lift the orchid out to drain
and promise it the rain will come
again next week
sometimes
the orchids bloom and bloom and bloom
for months
promise them the rain will come
again next week
for the Daily Post photo challenge: sweet.
This is for photrablogger’s Mundane Monday #45.
I just found this picture, taken in early 2015…. I fantasize about a small greenhouse built around a hot tub and full of hothouse plants, or cool northwestern northwestern plants, mostly orchids and mosses. My own private jungle…..
I want to go visit our local rainforest soon: the Hoh Rainforest….
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