Life's Growing Inspiration

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
-Albert Camus

If there's one tiny perfect creation that epitomizes life's beauty in my eyes, it's an orchid.  I've loved them as far back as I can remember, so when Sandy and I paid a visit to our local nursery last month I knew I had to have one.  She honoured my request and I picked this one as an early birthday present to myself (here it is sitting in our kitchen)...

                                phalaenopsis

There are approximately 25,000 species of orchids. More than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars have been produced, making orchids the largest family of flowering plants in the world.
What do I love about them?  The variations are endless and breathtaking.  Orchids have captured the hearts and imaginations of poets and authors, artists and dreamers throughout centuries for many reasons:

They're spectacularly colourful...

hypnotically beautiful...

erotically suggestive...

and elegantly fragile...

800 species are being added to the list every year, ensuring an endless source of inspiration for those captivated by the timeless beauty of one of life's most exquisite creations.