Friday, January 27, 2012

Dendrobium Salaya Minist


"I am moved by fancies

that are curled

Around these images and cling;


The notion of some infinitely gentle

Infinitely suffering thing."



T.S. Eliot




















Monday, January 23, 2012

Laeliocattleya Apple Blossom



"When as in silks my


Julia goes,


Then, then (me thinks)


how sweetly flows,


that liquefaction of her


clothes."






Robert Herrick













Sunday, January 22, 2012

Dendrobium Roy Tokunaga








"Such floods of white

 came bursting through

 the clouds. So the wind

 threw its contorted

strength around the sky."



Wallace Stevens
















Saturday, January 21, 2012

Dendrobium, unknown hybrid







"So vast, our Goddess Night, she

rises,

star-eyes gazing everywhere;

all her finery of dress

displayed."





Sappho,      ca. 625-570  BC