Dendrobium Update and Some Other Stuff

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Pressed For Time ..

Lately I have felt the pressure and free time is at a bare minimum, making it harder and harder to post with any consistency. Not big deal though, because I will always find some time somewhere in my day to shoot out a few lines on a topic that I have been thinking about. I know we all have gone through and some going through this very same thing. It's just part of juggling work, home life, family time and our hobbies. There will always be times when not everything fits into a 24 hour day.

Poor Molly ..

I was thinking about Pepper this morning, after watching Molly have a seizure close by to his ashes. She fell over on to the floor, after coming inside from morning duties, and began convulsing and yelping. It's been a week since her last episode. Right now we are probably averaging one per week. Poor girl.. it just breaks my heart.

I started to say that I was thinking about Pepper.. And that made me think of the Orchids, which led me to walk over to the center island, where we keep our new Dendrobium Silver King Orchid. You may remember a post not all that long ago where I was excited about her joining our family.

Another Orchid Update ..

The Dendrobium orchid is doing well. We decided to keep her on the center island in our kitchen, for now. Maybe we will find a better more suitable spot for her after a bit, but right now she likes it on the island. There are two new shoots sprouting up from her base as well! This makes me think she is very comfortable in this spot, and man do those shoots grow fast!

I'll grab a better and clearer shot of the shoots a bit later and drop it below here

The Flowers ..

The flowers are awesome! I love these flowers and the more I really just sit and stare at them, absorbing the little fine details, the more I fall in love with them. The petals are quite wispy and pointy. I like the speckles of purple that light up the outer edges of the petals, especially the top two petals of each flower. The centers are a bit more saturated with the purple, with a touch of yellowish green in the middle.

I also think that they appear to be in flight. The top petals look like wings of a bird to me, flapping in the wind.

There are three flowers in total. One is hiding behind these two.

We lost a few leaves already, but nothing to worry about. This is all normal and par for the course. As the sprouts grow, the leaves will naturally die back and fall off.