Orchids

Here is the courtyard at my mom's complex today:

Inside this hodgepodge of landscaping I found this:

So much for orchids being difficult to raise-this has not been water regularly (drought), it has been below freezing and in the middle of randomly dumped plants.

Last summer in the same courtyard I found this:

I had never seen a white bird of paradise before. I thought it was a fake someone wired in to the branches. Love to see it blossom again.