Friday Night Photos Orchidelirium Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 5:00pm

Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.

Come along with me on a visit to the San Diego Botanical Garden for their fifth World of Orchids exhibit. This year's theme is Orchidelirium focusing on 19th-century orchid mania, where rare and exotic orchids fueled the passions of Victorian-era collectors and botanical enthusiasts alike.

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 6:52pm
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and your lens has captured them
with rapture (almost made-up another word there).
Thanks for sharing your stills!

Tiptoe thru the tulips

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 7:34pm
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Some nice looking Tulips there.
I seem to recall there was a big Tulip boom and bust a few century's back.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 8:12pm
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is available for posterity!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 9:07pm
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That it's there for posterity or that I remembered it.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 8:10pm
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San Diego offers so much natural beauty, whether on the coast, at the lakes, in the zoo, or in the gardens. Thank you for sharing so much of it. Point Lobos was for me the place that switched on the idea of wanting to seriously photograph. I was only there once in the late 70's, but it left a deep impression.

My two favourite orchids are the raspberry coloured ones with their long tendril, or whatever that is, and the orchid over easy egg.

Have a wonderful weekend.

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 8:29pm
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all I can remember of San Diego was
Ocean Beach and La Jolla. Very different places
but both on the water Oh, and 5 for a buck Castle burgers
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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 8:39pm
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I mixed up Point Lobos with La Jolla in SD.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 9:14pm
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Sounds like you're due for a visit.
I was thinking sunny side up on those eggs.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 9:27pm
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since the 70's, and sunny side up is closer. Next year may be a possibility for a visit, depending on what my immediate family organises.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 8:24pm
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On the beach

Dog Paddle

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Sunset

Be well and enjoy

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 8:31pm
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platypus!

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 8:35pm
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It does look like a giant fossilised platypus foot!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 9:23pm
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Love that platypus rock formation. As interesting as it looks I would think it's a popular photography subject.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 9:30pm
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the local beach is a lot less popular at this time of year. On my visit this week I only encountered a few other humans, a lone fisherman, and a couple with their dog.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Sat, 05/10/2025 - 7:10am
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Chorus:
  Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make this garden grow
Gonna mulch it deep and low
Gonna make it fertile ground
  Inch by inch, row by row
Please bless these seeds I sow
Please keep them safe below
'Till the rain comes tumbling down

  Pullin' weeds and pickin' stones
We are made of dreams and bones
Need a place to call my own
'Cause the time is close at hand
  Grain for grain, sun and rain
Find my way in nature's chain
Till my body and my brain
Tell the music of the land
  Chorus

  Plant your rows straight and long
Season with a prayer and song
Mother Earth will make you strong
If you give her loving care
  Old crow watching from a tree
He's got his hungry eye on me
In my garden I'm as free
As that feathered thief up there
  Chorus

 

The anti-garden verse — by someone whose name Arlo forgot:

  Slug by slug, weed by weed
Boy, this garden's got me tee'd
All the insects come to feed
On my tomato plants
  Sunburnt face, skinned up knees
The kitchen's chocked with zucchinis
I'm shopping at the A&P's
Next time I get the chance
  Chorus

Re orchids:
A Japanese couple, Yoshito and Jean Inouye, were among my parents’ closest friends and hobbyist orchid experts of some renown. I see that “Uncle Yoshito” had been president of the Honolulu Orchid Society in 1940–1941, and “Auntie Jean” held that office in 1996.

https://www.orchids.org/orgpages/honolulu-orchid-society-inc-presidents-...

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