The Wayward Hawaiian

The neighbors have paid a painter to paint public utilities and curbing.  It's really brightened up the normally drab green utilities. ...

Cymbidium atropurpureum, is a native of Southeast Asia, where it grows in forests up to 5000 ft.  The flowers are nearly black and cascad...

Dragon Fruit blossom on the epiphytic jungle cactus Hylocereus costaricensis.  This plant originates in Central America where it was culti...

Electric Blue Acara.  Newest fish in the tank.  Do you think it'll eat the java ferns?

Spider and hapless bee, enmeshed alive in spider silk, all in a blink of an eye, as she spun the bee round and round, coating it in the tou...

(Slc Orchidom Leopard X C Mark Jones) 'Arnie' HCC/AOS

Encyclia Lee Ward 'Feuerbach' AM/AOS Eulophia petersii 'Captain Peters' HCC/AOS

July 2016 San Diego Judging Center American Orchid Society Awards Cattleya Dean's Flair 'Sunset Valley Orchids' AM 85pts ...

June 2016 awards given at the San Diego American Orchid Society Judging Center Cattleya warscewiczii 'Fabio Nahas' AM/AOS ...

The Hummingbirds are back in full strength and having some natural nutrients in their diet is always a good thing.  As it happens, I found ...

American Orchid Society Awards for the San Diego Region for May, 2016 Ansellia africana 'Rainbow Valley' HCC/AOS (Blc Will...

American Orchid Society Regional Judging Awards for the San Diego Judging Center, April, 2016 Brassavola nodosa 'Big Deal' AM...

Here are the awards from the March American Orchid Society Judging in San Diego, California. Dendrobium Greta Snow 'Charley's...

This large Jackrabbit, Lepus californicus, was entertaining a wonderful couple who were nice enough to point him out to me, prior to him ...