Woodcock Orchid
(http://www.arillas.com/forum/gallery/892_16_02_10_7_44_12.jpeg)
http://www.arillas.com/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=218
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it an insect? Is it an orchid? Is it one of Dennis' gorgeous pictures? Yes it is. Unbelievable!
Phil
It looks like aliens have landed!
Another lovely photo Dennis - thank you.
Sara
Love that picture, Dennis! And Phil and Sara, your comments are so apt! :)
lynn xx
Wow - that's fantastic! Thank you
Janis x
Well put Phil and Sara! And the flower is only the size of a fingernail !
Taking photographs like this has opened my eyes to how marvelous nature is. The plant seems so insignificant buried in the long grass. It is only when you see the finished photograph that you fully realise how wonderful it is. I could stare at it for ages wondering what each bit does, especially the yellow 'helmet' and wide-open mouth.
I wouldn't meet it in a dark alley. But it could be a pop star. B****y gorgeous.
I justlove our Corfu. Life is for living. Not ignoring. These beautiful creatures make it so much more than a concrete high rise Spain. Well that's what I believe.
Phil
Absolutely agree! Arillas is the most beautiful place (with beautiful people) that we have ever been to!
Janis x
Lovely picture of a strange but beautiful thing :)
Thanks, Erja!
(Oh - sorry, I thought you were looking at my profile pic which is immediately above your posting!) lol :D
Janis x
My cousin's wife grows orchids.She says she doesn't do anything special but never fails to amaze me how pretty and delicate her plants look.
Ah, that would apply to me then, Jen, with our indoor plants - I water them when I remember and usually they turn out OK!
Janis x
To all interested in wildlife on Corfu this is a very good site.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~corfuwildlife/birds.html (http://homepage.eircom.net/~corfuwildlife/birds.html)
Enjoy..............
Sara
lovely website Sara. Will be spending time there when I'm not here, which is.... well, sometimes. Thanks for the link. Have looked at mammals so far....
Phil
Alas Janis I don't have the green fingered touch.If I walk into a garden centre to pick a houseplant you can hear the little leaves scream 'help,murder,polis'.I'll just be content looking at the lovely pictures posted here and on the Corfu Wildlife link.
jen, nous aussi. Us as well. We have but one living plant left in our house. A rubber plant my sister bought for us when we got married (or engaged or met - really can't remember but it was 38 to 40 years ago.)
It is a bonsai - two feet tall after all those years. Loads of little leaves and clearly a rubber plant. It has had a hard life, like anyone would, living with us.
We regularly buy living herbs to cook with. Just now the basil is withered, the chives are brown and the parsley? well you can guess. Our kitchen window is usually somthered in fresh herbs but tomorrow we will buy more. Even if we water them they die. Green fingers? not us two
Phil