I don’t usually sequence my blog posts out of order, but in this case, I’ll submit this one ahead of the one reporting a trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway I made the day before. I’m doing this because the intensity of this bloom cycle of Triphora trianthophorus or Three-birds orchid was so exceptional that

This is not the first time I have rescued an orchid from its pending doom, but this time, it seems to have worked out quite well, so far. Sort of a win-win… Later on in this blog report, I will mention the first time I rescued a specimen of this species, but for now, let’s

There is never a dull moment for anyone travelling during any season on the Blue Ridge Parkway. My intended goal on this brief trip was to photograph the flowering (I hoped) of an orchid that I had seen a week before beside a trail just off the Boone Fork overlook. This overlook allows easy access