Entreaty To A Lover
Watercolor On Black Paper
2023, 11"x 14’
Mini Phals
Private Collection
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Day 12 of Pride Month is all about Polygender Pride, represented here by a Roseate Spoonbill and a wreath of Moth Orchids 🖤🩶🩷💛🩵
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started a hobby I’ve been meaning to start which is rehabilitating and propagating orchids and I’ll let you know how it goes in a month regarding growth 🤞🏼 so far my brain is very pleased with this and learning about orchids is like… incredible.
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I got a new orchid today. It's got some great roots and it's all set up for a good life since I removed the peat plug. It's a mini orchid and it's tiny. I love it.
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Butterfly Wing, Saint Louis Zoo 9/28/23 by Sharon Mollerus
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Rows And Rows And Rows
Phalaenopsis orchids in row call in the National Orchid Garden. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.
Nell had inadvertently underexposed this by a couple of stops. So we brought the exposure back up a bit in post.
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January 31st 2023
Temps are freezing here. Work's closed and everything's acting up. Here's a flower for you and me.
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Day 27: Moth Orchid
For the incredible @ yorucomett ! Thank you so much again for letting me draw this, it's been a great honour!
This portrait will be available as a print in their shop! <3
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A Little Heat
Watercolor On Black Paper
2023, 5"x 7"
Mini Phals
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so I’m learning how to propagate orchids and if all goes well and I have like 5 new orchids I may go insane and like breed a shit ton of orchids and get very into this
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A hike in the Cheat River Canyon on a hazy, mid-summer day brings a great many rewards, both large and small.
From top: Fractured and pitted sandstone gives testimony to the canyon's ancient struggle with the elements; black cohosh (Actaea racemosa or Cimicifuga racemosa), whose towering flower spikes stalk the old woods like magical beings; the colorful rock harlequin (Corydalis sempervirens), an endangered fumitory that haunts the canyon's rocky outcrops; pinesap (Monotropa hypopitys), a parasitic plant closely related to Indian pipe; spotted St. John's wort (Hypericum punctatum), which is distinguished from the invasive St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) by the numerous black dots on its flowers and leaves; downy rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens), a shade-tolerant terrestrial orchid that favors oak-hickory woods; shrubby St. John's wort (Hypericum prolificum), a mounding, deciduous shrub of open, sandy woods; orange-fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris), a stunning late summer beauty of Appalachia's moist meadows and open woods; a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) visiting a late-blooming milkweed; a silvery checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis) drinking up the nectar of a butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa); an American green crab spider (Misumessus oblongus) stalking a black-eyed Susan for its next meal; a large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) being perfectly beautiful on a lazy summer day; and last but not least, a hulking patch of eastern Jack-0'-lanterns (Omphalotus illudens), which contrary to what field guides say have never glowed in the dark for me (I love the toxic little beauties nonetheless).
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