Boop!
#alderaanthepyrenees #greatpyrenees #lsgd #dog

The theme of the year continues. Another hen shows up with chicks from a secret nest, third of the year. Not sure how many hens laid eggs there, 10 chicks now in the brooder. #farmlife #chickens

On his post-bath mandatory walk. Alderaan is the bestest boy. #greatpyrenees #dogsofbluesky #dogs

Sphinx moth fell asleep...or maybe got stuck. It was reluctant to move along this morning when I helped it out. (Ric. Larry Nishikawa x Rlc. Kaoru Suzuki) 'VQ' has a nicely shaped, large flower. #orchids #flower #sphinxmoth

Chz. Hsinying Pink Doll. 7 blooms is a lot of big flowers for one orchid spike. #orchids #gardening #flowers

Rlc. King of Taiwan
Big showy orchids. What's not to like? #orchids #gardening #flowers

Any Great Pyrenees posting has to be answered. Alderaan and his +one. #greatpyrenees

My dog does this constantly, big goof.

DJ question. When did playlists start throwing together 20 second snips of great songs...sorry I'm too old to enjoy changing moods faster than chameleon's colors. Donna Summers, to Daft Punk, to Flo Rida, and back to reggaeton...and half the people stop dancing. #trainwreckonthedancefloor

One and done on the Halloween parties. #halloween

Cycd. Taiwan Gold 'Orange'
The fragrance is borderline...industrial bubblegum #orchids #gardening #flowers

Bc. Gulfshore's Beauty 'Green Gem' mounted on a cedar root ball. Tree had died due to flooding, it was a bear to dig up. I mounted four Green Gems almost two years ago, filling in nicely. #orchids #garden

Monarch butterfly taking off from one of our super tall cosmos plants. They grew to 8 feet last year and up to 12 feet this year. #butterflies #monarch

Nice. We have three young trees, and I hope not too many more years before they start producing.

Less chlorophyll = lower fruit production? I know variegated plants tend to be less robust than non-variegated plants.

Too much AI in the world, here's some real swallowtails in my garden. #butterflies

Yeah...I'm lagging badly

Swallowtails have been awesome this Summer. No AI needed when you have skills 😂. But at some point I'll update this iPhone 12. #butterfly #gardening #slowmotion

I screen captured it from my Instagram. I took the photo on my camera and saved it to my old computer in 2016. To enlarge to a canvas I need the original.

Simple times 30 years ago when I thought the skit was almost over the top, and hilarious, and now it's not remotely funny because it's reality.

The dilemma is, I have to get out my old computer tower to try to find the original for a canvas print. I pushed the canoe out on the lake before anyone woke up, then had to retrieve it after breakfast 😂. #fog #misty #playmistyforme

Sweet peppers that look like hot peppers. Red ones are shishito, tastes like a cross between a pepper and a green bean (I was told to grill it). The yellow ones are a Cuban seasoning pepper called cachucha, one of my favorites. #peppers #gardening #cachucha

Ctt. Chongkolnee is a hybrid I bought as a seedling a few years ago. Hopefully in the future I can get it to give more than two flowers per spike. #orchids #gardening #flowers

Bct. Little Mermaid
#orchids #gardening #flowers

Artillery plant, it's a nuisance

Bc. Jairak Kiku mounted on cedar. Really like some of these Brassavola hybrids, generally strong growers and bloom multiple times a year. #orchids #flowers #gardening

Closely related, there are many Clerodendrons, pagodas have a much more structured flower head. Most, including these, are quite invasive and will take over flower beds.

Do you need to see the photos I took of the same encounter? Everything on my feed is real, this is a slow motion chance encounter with a mating pair of swallowtail butterflies. Sorry you feel it's AI, but bugger off.