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A Case of the Human Condition: In Your Face Orchids

August 24, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall Leave a Comment

Magenta orchid growing in orchid farm in Thailand. Photo by BF Newhall

purple and magenta orchids blooming at an orchid farm in thailand. Photo by BF Newhall
Orchids . . .

 

 

By Barbara Falconer Newhall

There’s nothing I can say about these orchids.

Except that they were growing in Thailand, a farm, where there were so many feats of blossoming splendor that by tour’s end Jon, Christina and I were wailing, “No! Please! Not another stupendously beautiful orchid! Get me out of here! Take me to the snake ranch!”

Where, of course, the snakes were beautiful too.

Another flower story — “The Trouble With Daffodils.”

 

purple orchid blooming in a thai orchid farm. photo by bf newhall
. . . and more orchids. Photos by BF Newhall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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