Orchid Obsessions

Orchids are a running them in our house. I had an orchid a couple of years ago, but I very easily killed it. I asked Nicholas to create an icon for our wedding, and it included an orchid (although he thinks real orchid enthusiasts would be appalled at the artistic license he used). Last year, Nicholas bought another orchid in conjunction with some other plants he was buying to make projects. I don't know if he ever intended to use the orchid in an art piece (or if it was an excuse to buy an orchid), but the orchid lived in his studio for several months. Sometime last Spring, he had a studio disaster where the hanging shelves and the wall had a fight. On a side note, this was around the same time that Nicholas was experimenting with punching and jumping through drywall. Maybe the walls of his studio were sending him a message. I digress...

Our wedding icon

The orchid sustained minor injuries from the disaster and found a new home in our apartment. Did I mention that Nicholas has an orchid book? He did some research on the flowering cycles of orchids. He found that they flower, lose the flower, grow a new leaf, then flower again. Well, we got 2 new leaves before our orchid flowered again. Perhaps it was too traumatized by the studio disaster to flower. Nonetheless, we now have a flowering orchid that apparently doesn't realize it is 29 degrees outside. Enjoy the pictures!