NYBG Orchid Show 2013

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I just renewed my membership to the New York Botanical Garden and stopped by for the first day of the 2013 Orchid Show. It was a cool, rainy Saturday - which meant that the crowds stayed away and I was able to indulge my ongoing fantasy that the Garden is actually my own private Idaho. Spring is poised on its haunches and soon everything will be 'fathered forth' in a flurry of cellular activity as chlorophyll revs the whole Northern Hemisphere into a high pitched scream of new green. Wait for it...

Photos: Mine 

Fairy-tale Logic

Fairy tales are full of impossible tasks:

Gather the chin hairs of a man-eating goat,

Cross a sulphuric lake in a leaky boat,

Select the prince from a row of identical masks,

Tiptoe up to a dragon where it basks

And snatch its bone; count dust specks, mote by mote,

Or learn the phone directory by rote.

Always it’s impossible what someone asks—

You have to fight magic with magic. You have to believe

That you have something impossible up your sleeve,

The language of snakes, perhaps, an invisible cloak,

An army of ants at your beck, or a lethal joke,

The will to do whatever must be done:

Marry a monster. Hand over your firstborn son.

- A.E. Stallings

Photo: Jason de Graaf