Flower of the Day Challenge #77: Outrageously-gorg Orchid

Proud orchid mama!
Isn’t she lovely, this gorg orchid?!
Thanks to Cee for hosting #FOTD Challenge
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Flower of the Day Challenge #73: Orchid, 1st Bloom

… happy orchid mom exclaiming: “my baby is blooming yet again!”

She’s my oldest baby (6 years) and this season’s first bloom!!! Waiting with bated breath for my other babies to bloom.

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Flower of the Day Challenge #61: Monkey Face Orchid! Really?!

Came across these irresistible cuties — love the way nature mimics itself!! 😊 See other awe-inspiring mimicking flowers here.

Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt.

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Flower of the Day Challenge #54: Plainly Gorgeous Orchid, 1st Bloom

… this orchid mom is exuberant once again because one more of my babies is re-blooming! She’s my oldest, just over 5 years old!!!!

She’s the 2nd bloom of the 2023 season!!! Waiting with bated breath for my other babies to re-bloom.

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Flower of the Day Challenge #54: Plainly Gorgeous Orchid, 1st Bloom

… happy orchid mom exclaiming: “my baby is blooming yet again!”

She’s the first bloom of my season!!! Waiting with bated breath for my other babies to bloom.

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Flower of the Day Challenge #52: Color-blotched Orchid

Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt
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Flower of the Day Challenge #47: Mimicking Flowers & Senryu Series

Flowers that mimic
Duplicity in nature
Created design

God can’t be outdone
At best human imitate
Never duplicate

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Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt and Ragtag Community for hosting RDP Sunday, the word is design. 

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Shabbat Shalom: Dear God, I’m Grateful | with audio

Shabbat Shalom everyone. Last week started a “Dear God” post—“how do I know”. I think the first step to knowing is being in a frame of mind to listen and to hear and that comes from a state of gratitude. Today is another “Dear God” post and it’s a simple prayer of gratitude.

First, a throwback to the welcome post of this blog where I shared why this site is called “createdbydeesign”. I genuinely believe that EVERY creative insight and EVERY word I’ve strung together to form EVERY art that I have ever written or formed, have been offsprings of God’s creativity.

God is the source of all creativity and all art. And it’s from His creation and creative wonders that I draw inspiration.

I mean, it can’t get more obvious than ART being smack dab in the middle of eARTh.

God could have made earth black and white and we’d have never known. That would be truly bland. Can you imagine earth without art, that would just be “eh”.

Who but a genius artist could think of, design, then create extraordinary flowers that look exactly like animals, aliens, humans, fairies and other strange creatures.

Dear God.

Thank You for channeling in us a bit of Your poetic-artistic creativity. Thank You for the art unfolded in majestic mountains, breathtaking meadows, massive oceans, boundless skies and splendiferous birds, flowers and faunas. I am grateful.

Amen

Shabbat Shalom. May you find peace, rest and bliss in the creative wonders of nature that lead you to a state of gratitude.

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Flower of the Day Challenge #46: Orchid Haiku

Yellow orchid bloom

Usher out summer season

To welcome autumn

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Flower of the Day Challenge #8: Orchids

I LOVE orchids!

They are an exquisite combination of class and elegance, adding beauty to any space.

It took me awhile to get the hang of keeping orchids alive and getting them to rebloom. Now that I have, I find so much joy in ‘raising’ my orchid babies.

I hope these bring a little joy to your day today.

Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Also contributing to Fandango’s One Word Challenge, today’s word is combination.


Thank you for journeying along.

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Orchid Mom Log—1st bloom of 2021

I love orchids!!!

It took me awhile to get the hang of growing them. In fact, I literally killed 9 … no that doesn’t sound good at all, let me rephrase … 9 orchids died while under my care (lol 😂). So this bloom is a HUGE deal—it’s from one of the orchids that is re-blooming under my care and it’s MY 1st FLOWER OF THE SEASON.

I’m so happy.

I’m proud to say I now have 11 orchids and ALL of them are set to re-bloom. All except one have sent out new spikes and all have new nodes (some of them multiple nodes). I’m ecstatic and filled with anticipation waiting for all the plants to flower.

Happy orchid mom … 😄


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