What Is Going On Indoors?

13 november, 201613 november, 2016 / Leya / 20 kommentarer

Outdoors everything is heavily frozen – beautiful, but my hands and feet are complaining. So, what is happening in my flower rooms now? If you, like me, love flowers, let us go and see! Click to read their names and to enlarge.

Easter Cactus – in flower now, very intense

Tillandsia

Hoya linearis – Himalaya

Hoya retusa – India

Begonia Rex

Geranium of 2016 – Caliente Pink

Some of the orchids are always in flower – especially the Phalaenopsis’.

But, right now most of them are over, leaving the scene to some other beauties.

I have many phalaenopsis’ in different colours – this one is abundant right now.

This brown and yellow orchid is the same as the one in the header. A fragrant Cambria.

A 50 centimetre high, impressive Brassia – resembling my old Brassia Rex –

– although this one is not as much ”spidery”as the Rex.

Lastly, a rose – not one of my own potplants. But still – elegantly living its short life here in my rooms.

Wordless Wednesday

22 juni, 2016 / Leya / 13 kommentarer

CFFC: Single Flowers or Bud

10 maj, 2016 / Leya / 12 kommentarer

In the header – Cattleya Ginny ”Prince”.

Don’t we all love flowers? Visit Cee or join in with a flower post here.

Cattleyas are my absolute favourite orchids. This one has a delicate scent…floating through my rooms when in flower. It is budding right now.

This beauty belongs to a very dear friend of mine. A truly grand Cattleya, and as you can see, the flower is bigger than everything else here, including stems and pot.

As usual, click to enlarge.

CFFC: The Colors Yellow and Red

27 april, 201627 april, 2016 / Leya / 8 kommentarer

For Cee’s challenge – flowers! And a Danish house, of course. Join in for some great colours!

Phalaenopsis Orchid. In the header, Gloriosa.

Seven Day Nature Photo, Day Five – Lady’s Slipper Orchid

2 april, 2016 / Leya / 14 kommentarer

I have been nominated by my friend Sue, at WordsVisual, to take part in a challenge of a photo per day for seven days, of anything from the natural world. And every day I should nominate a new member.

Cypripedium calceolus is a lady’s-slipper orchid growing wild in Sweden, and very much unlike other wild orchids here. This photo is from a very dear friend’s garden – I got the opportunity to photograph the entire garden last summer. Magnificent species.

Today I would like to nominate photographer and blogger Robert Weir at Clicking through the bucket list to take part in the 7-day Nature Photo. He is a brilliant photographer and a worldwide traveller. I would love to see what he might come up with for this challenge….. though I am not sure there is spare time enough for this busy man. If not – no worries, Robert, I am only glad to rekommend your blog to other bloggers!

Wordless Wednesday – Cattleya Rojo

10 februari, 201610 februari, 2016 / Leya / 17 kommentarer

Pocketable from Canon to Panasonic

3 februari, 20163 februari, 2016 / Leya / 20 kommentarer

Time for my pot plants to wake up from their winter sleep…

…and some porcelain birds as well.

So, I shot these with my new ”dog walking” camera – a Panasonic Lumix TZ70. My old Canon suddenly got a white spot inside the lens, (I could see it clearly, and the photos got a big blur in the upper left corner ) and there was nothing to do about it as it is a compact camera.

I never had a Panasonic before, but this one got high grades in photo magazines and was listed number one of neat compacts this year. My criteria were: ability to use one hand only (dog leash in the other), good in low light, long zoom lens and still pocketable. This Lumix feels good, but is not as good in low light as the Canon was. A plus point is that I love the design …

Nattens Prinsessa – The Princess of the Night

25 september, 201525 september, 2015 / Leya / 27 kommentarer

The Queen of the Night (Nattens drottning, Selenicereus grandiflorus) and The Princess of the Night (Nattens Princessa, Epiphyllum oxypetalum) are two species both flowering during night time. Both of them with big, white flowers emitting showers of exquisite scent. The flowers are almost identical, but the stems are different.

My flower – the epiphyllum originates from Mexico.

I was sent a leaf last year from my blogging friend Maria, at MariaYarri, and now, for some weeks, a giant bud was growing, fast, by the day…

We went to Riga for a couple of days, but I was constantly thinking about the fact that I might be missing out on this glorious event. But I was so lucky…

Yesterday we arrived home again – the bud was rising and now measuring about 20 cm.

Suddenly, towards evening, my daughter called from the living room that the Wonder was happening…an about 25cm large flower was unfolding.

I cut the corners short – meeting the flower from behind it looked like a star or a rocket…I was totally mesmerized by it and could not leave the room but for my cameras.

The lovely scent filled every corner, every tiny space of the room, and the two of us were both sinking into a trance…

…I simply had to catch this moment…tried the flash…but no…

It had to be natural…and from every thinkable angle. True beauty – I could not breathe.

Inside…

…another world

We stayed with her through her best, 2-3 hours, but went to bed when she started to fade and lay back her petals.

This morning – she was gone.

So grateful for this moment we had together. Nature is magnificent in all her splendour.

WPC: Grid

18 september, 201518 september, 2015 / Leya / 15 kommentarer

WordPress – Grid, make it the most important in your photo. Well, grids are not always manmade – you find nature’s grids everywhere…My choice fell on a Vanda, a remarkable Asian orchid, intensely coloured with a splendid grid. This Vanda I found standing in Denmark, outside a hotel.

For more grids – click here.