Very nice. Thank you for a bright spot in the gloom...
bronco214
· 1 year ago
WOW, thanks John. Ditto on the spot of beauty thing.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Fantastic! John, you must go wandering through the jungles of Thailand and Malasia before they are gone. There are a great variety of orchids there, though the one you have shown today is as fine as any I've ever seen. thanks
Indigo
· 1 year ago
What a wonderful display of color. The cluster looks almost like a tropical fish that might live in a coral reef.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Its my new favorite.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
And isn't it amazing that this one is consider kind of "common" in the orchid world - meaning, nothing special :-)
Busboy
· 1 year ago
I have a friend who can convert it into ethanol.
cheetos
· 1 year ago
Wow...I've loved many of the orchids you've shown here over the years, but this one...Wow.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
What a beautiful flower! This has to be my favorite of all the ones you have shown. I think you may have shown this one before but these pictures are absolutely amazing! Thank you!
Barb_in_DC
· 1 year ago
O-O-O-O-O-O-H-H-H-H-H-H!!!!!!!!!!
BCPipes
· 1 year ago
Looks like multiple exposures of a Cirque du Soleil act
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
BREAKING NEWS Pakistani city under threat of militant takeover
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — Security around Peshawar, the provincial capital in northwest Pakistan, has been dramatically stepped up amid fears that the city could fall to heavily armed Islamic militants who have now massed around its outskirts.
From three sides, Peshawar, which borders Pakistan's wild tribal belt, is menaced by Taliban groups and other warlords.
If Peshawar is taken over by extremists, the rest of the North West Frontier Province is also threatened, raising the possibility that religious fundamentalists may gain control of a state on Afghanistan's border. The drama in Peshawar reinforces existing doubts about the new Pakistani government's policy of pulling back the army and seeking peace deals with militants.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
I think that's good news, unrepentant. Kind of like bringing pus to the head of a boil.
I just read on Huffpo that Obama is definitely going in mid July to Afg. iraq and Uk and France and germ. That should be fun to read about and see on the news. Maybe the press will be distracted enough to report some interesting things.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Britiny ,Lindsy or O.J.?
Busboy
· 1 year ago
vw, just make sure he isn't wearing a combat helmet and driving a tank...
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Teen paralysed after rebuke on reality show
KOLKATA: The next time you drag your son or daughter to music or dance competition, remember the face in this photograph.
She is Shinjini Sengupta, a 16-year-old class XI student of a reputed Kolkata school, who can now neither speak nor move.
She wasn't like this even a month ago. She was a good dancer and acted in tele-serials and had even appeared in a Bengali film.
Participating in a dance competition on a Bengali TV channel recently, Shinjini was rebuked by the judges of the show during the shooting on May 19. The teenager never recovered from the shock of being publicly chided.
She slipped into depression and then lost her speech and finally even the use of her limbs. Shinjini was flown to Bangalore's NIMHANS on Friday evening.
"The doctors here have not been able to diagnose her problem. She can't speak or express herself. An MRI and a CT scan have been done, but we still don't know what she is suffering from," said Sibani Sengupta, Shinjini's mother. Till three days ago, she would write if she needed something. Now she has even stopped that.
I have a Wildcat that is old reliable: I rescued it from someone's office a few years ago after it had been neglected for weeks. It's now blooming from two leads, twice a year. It stays outside in full sun in the summer, and the colors for the summer blooming are good and strong. (Mine's potted in sphagnum, which it seems to like.)
Yours is phenomenal. I have something to aim for -- I've never gotten more than 15 flowers on two spikes.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Full sun? You're kidding. Mine grows under regular old fluorescent shop lights inside, and seems terribly happy growing in semi-hydro - I couldnt' grow it in regular medium. But wow, I don't give mine NEARLY that much light. But if your takes it, then good. Oh, and try having a mouse eat half of the pseudobulb, seems to work wonders :-)
Dumbo
· 1 year ago
John, that first picture of the Colmanara... I thought that was going to be some kind of fractal art or a NASA picture. Absolutely amazing pic. Save that pic and send it in to a print mag.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Okay now you have me curious - what is fractal art? Time to break out the Google.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
Fabulous photo!! EXTRAORDINARY!
rmthunter
· 1 year ago
Full sun in Chicago isn't that big a deal (I live in a section of Andersonville where it seems to stay cooler than anywhere else in the city, and there re lots of trees around, so the actual exposure is probably no more than five hours a day), although I may try to find some way to shade it through the worst of the day. And considering that it was nearly a victim of negligent orchicide,* I suppose anything's an improvement. I just have to be sure it gets plenty of water.
* I just made that word up, and looking at it I realize there's a certain squick quotient there, since "orchis" is the classical Greek word for testicle. Not the sort of thing men like to think about. So we won't, OK?
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Pakistani city under threat of militant takeover
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RT...
SAEED SHAH
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
June 27, 2008 at 9:59 PM EDT
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — Security around Peshawar, the provincial capital in northwest Pakistan, has been dramatically stepped up amid fears that the city could fall to heavily armed Islamic militants who have now massed around its outskirts.
From three sides, Peshawar, which borders Pakistan's wild tribal belt, is menaced by Taliban groups and other warlords.
If Peshawar is taken over by extremists, the rest of the North West Frontier Province is also threatened, raising the possibility that religious fundamentalists may gain control of a state on Afghanistan's border. The drama in Peshawar reinforces existing doubts about the new Pakistani government's policy of pulling back the army and seeking peace deals with militants.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/06/ima...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080628/D91IPS...
Maybe the press will be distracted enough to report some interesting things.
KOLKATA: The next time you drag your son or daughter to music or dance competition, remember the face in this photograph.
She is Shinjini Sengupta, a 16-year-old class XI student of a reputed Kolkata school, who can now neither speak nor move.
She wasn't like this even a month ago. She was a good dancer and acted in tele-serials and had even appeared in a Bengali film.
Participating in a dance competition on a Bengali TV channel recently, Shinjini was rebuked by the judges of the show during the shooting on May 19. The teenager never recovered from the shock of being publicly chided.
She slipped into depression and then lost her speech and finally even the use of her limbs. Shinjini was flown to Bangalore's NIMHANS on Friday evening.
"The doctors here have not been able to diagnose her problem. She can't speak or express herself. An MRI and a CT scan have been done, but we still don't know what she is suffering from," said Sibani Sengupta, Shinjini's mother. Till three days ago, she would write if she needed something. Now she has even stopped that.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Teen_p...
Yours is phenomenal. I have something to aim for -- I've never gotten more than 15 flowers on two spikes.
* I just made that word up, and looking at it I realize there's a certain squick quotient there, since "orchis" is the classical Greek word for testicle. Not the sort of thing men like to think about. So we won't, OK?