9/13/09

I went to the library and picked up a couple books, one on orchids and one on ruins. A few years ago I had started taking photographs of old run down houses in my home town. These houses have always intrigued me. I think that they are beautiful aesthetically and mentally when you look at them. Whenever I see a house that has been left to the elements several questions go through my mind. How did it get this way? Who lived there? What was life like growing up in this house? Along with many more. I have not gotten into the book on ruins yet. I started with the book on orchids. Here are a couple of the photographs that I came up with a few years ago on the houses. I seem to be having trouble uploading the images of the houses so I will keep at it and load them when it decides to work. The orchids I am drawn to because they are so beautiful and there are no other flowers out there like them. I have recently had an orchid rebloom which I didn't think that I was going to be able to do. The book on orchids that I started reading is very interesting. I have learned that people came up with sexual innuendos because of the way the flowers looked as well as the fact that early on scientists could not figure out how the flowers were pollinated. I am going to keep researching but am not sure where things are going to go from here.