Creeksong

These Orchid flowers broke off the plant at least two weeks ago, when the plant got dropped. We didn't expect them to last two days off the plant. We stuck them in this bottle with some leaves off the Camellia tree, and they are still turgid and beautiful.
This variety was first bred by a friend of mine. He owns the biggest Orchid farm in the world. I used to build commercial greenhouses and worked for him about fifteen years ago. He was eighty years old then, and used to ride his bicycle around the thirty acres of greenhouses, to oversee his workers. He loved to talk, and never seemed to be in a hurry. One day we, somehow, got to talking about money, and he said he wanted to show me something. He fished his wallet out of a deep pocket, and pulled a black credit card from it.
"See this?", he said. "I can charge a million dollars on this card."
My mouth dropped open! "Really?" I asked.
"Yep", he said. "But the only trouble is that I have to pay it all back within one month!"
I was talking to the guy I worked with, last week, and asked him if Andy was still alive. Yes, he told me. He's ninety five, now, and he is still riding that bicycle.

An interesting story.
I got no orchids myself, I like them, but I only enjoy the native species where they occure and admire those relatives collecting the potted cultivars from the store and of course those online aqaintances able to keep more demanding rainforest species in humid glassboxes.
Started the orchid group on 23 mostly for humouring one of the later that however did not stay, but there are a few people puting their pics in from time to time never the less.
You are invited too if you like.

Somehow it seems I cant put a lik in today here, but it is still amongst the "New Groups" listings although it's older than a year.