@QMS
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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and your lens has captured them
with rapture (almost made-up another word there).
Thanks for sharing your stills!

Tiptoe thru the tulips

@janis b
Sounds like you're due for a visit.
I was thinking sunny side up on those eggs.

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.

@lotlizard
Thanks for the link and the Arlo. What a great singer and story teller.
Would Yoshito and Jean Inouye be any relation to former Hawaii senator Daniel Inouye?

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-...

@orlbucfan
I'm not much good at growing things either, but I do have 2 orange trees I've managed to keep alive.
Glad to hear you got some rain.

I'm one of those people who usually looks at anything green, and it croaks. However, I now have 6 healthy orchids and a Xmas poinsettia (red blooms) growing like crazy.
Go figure!! We denizens of ECFL are finally getting plenty of much needed rain. No, I refuse to dwell on the upcoming storm season. I'm set with my hurricane tracking blog regardless of what maggot brains and fellow greedballs pull. Rec'd!!