Columbia Hybrid Lady's Slipper

Beautiful orchid; well captured Ron.

Beautiful orchids...

A beautiful orchid !

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Encore une superbe série

Their variety and the shades they have are amazing, after their "design", of course !!!

Sehr schöne Orchideen Aufnahmen!

So very beautiful !!!

Very, very beautiful!!

Thanks also for the interesting notes, Ron

Excellent shots!

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I saw some Lady's Slippers in a botanical garden recently and thought of you.

Such exceptional beauties, Ron. You guys must feel like you hit a home run every time you find these amazing flowers. Hybrids too...such a lucky find! :)

Thanks for the update, I'm glad that you guys are happy with your van--it would be no good if one or both of you couldn't stand the arrangement. I do envy your ability to easily go where we cannot even consider! :)

Yeah, I gotta say, The Cove Palisades State Park was a total gem. Hot as the dickens but so what...get up earlier if you want to hike the Tam-a-Lau trail! Truly, the area really surprised us and we felt like we were in Arizona or whatnot. Because it gets so hot I think there are always campsites available. Also, a few years back the drought nearly dried the lake and killed the businesses all around. They are coming back but people have elephant memories and those who came when the lake was disasterously low don't seem to be coming back like they used to. Nice for us, not great for area businesses.

The dead transmission is a financial bummer but you know, I'm actually happy that it happened when it did. I suspected something was terribly wrong when I began smelling the same stink as I did when our last truck's tranny died. Steve brushed off my concerns but I decided that once we got home, the truck was going to get seriously serviced and I knew it would cost some major coin. Fact is though, we paid much less than what this truck is worth so whatever--and in the end we'll have a truck that we'll be able to trust on our long voyages. It all works out. :)

Many of the orchid sites we visit we've been to before, Janet, and usually the new ones are places we've been told about.

Wonderful capture of this Lady's Slipper Orchid Well done Ron Regards Tess

I love the twisted sepals on these orchids, Ron. There certainly doesn't seem to be a shortage of this wild variety. I would be over the moon to fund anything like this here in England.

There is only one site left in England where the Yellow Lady's Slipper is found and it is guarded 24/7 lest some idiot come and dig the plants.

Funny and not scientific at all, but this close-up really makes this orchid look like a small children's or ballet shoe with open ribbons. :) Wonderful series, Ron! :)

Superbe image!

A fabulous series of Slipper's Orchid images! It's amazingly beautiful to see many of them in the wild in the last PiP.

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A lovely series, Ron, and it's obvious even to me how the name is derived for these.