It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Shadow Shot Sunday. This is because I’ve been busy, writing up a chapter for my PhD. It’s been a long while, during which there have been many shadows.
There have been many meals eaten at the computer… (Remember your first computer at home, and the rules your parents made about never eating at the keyboard? Uh, yeah. Sorry, Mom and Dad.)
…and many hours scowling over just the right word. And then, many lost hours of clowning when writing should have been getting done. *cough*
Welll, let’s just draw a veil over the wasted time, shall we?
Some of the best shadows, though, have been to do with T’s orchid. She’s managed to get it to send up a new spike, and to flower again!
This is the first orchid we’ve managed not to kill, never mind the flowers. How was this done? Well, by neglecting the heck out of it, putting it in a non-sunny corner of the room, watering it only once a week (if that), and not giving it any fertilizer, of course!
I think that we care a bit too much for our plants. They’d probably like for us to go on vacation more often (or to work more on our writing).
Happy Shadow Shot Sunday! And Happy September (soon)!
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Great shots! Love the orchid!
Happy SSS!
Sylvia
Your orchid really is lovely and it certainly casts a delightful, happy shadow!
the orchid shadows are very pretty
The orchid is gorgeous! I really like your gardening strategy! All nice shots. All the best with your PhD 🙂
You sound like me: a frustrated gardener…LOL!!! Your shadows are just beautiful!!!…and your orchids, fab!!!
Nice orchid shadows – we ususally kill them – guess we'll follow your "green thumb" advice!
I just love the orchid shadows!
lovely orchid and shadows!
The orchid shots are beutiful, but I have to say the old castle one won me over! I'm a sucker for buildings like that, and all that GREEN!
Beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL! Love that last one, particularly.
🙂
What clever photos.
A very good idea…
I took a scenic photography tour in April with one of Barbados' top photographers and he has me hooked on doing photographs with shadows. I want to get some new lens so that I can explore… I am interested in more than food photography.
Lovely photos of the orchid…they really do like neglect. My kind of plant 🙂
Hope you have gotten away fromt he computer and outside some…all work and no play, etc.
Happy SSS!
i just got to oklahoma after a 4 month absence and my orchids have been neglected when I was gone, only being watered a few times and you know what?? they are thriving and have sent several spikes up and some are in flower (all phalaenopsis orchids like yours). To bad I can't take them back to Scotland with me!