07-05-2008, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by made4engineering  Shock and awe. When people first see my orchids growing on a log, it's like they had just seen a UFO. The next word they speak starts with a 'W' - wow! ... whoa! ... what!?
For me the shock is over, but the awe never ceases. It's not just seeing the orchids growing epiphytically, but the knowledge that they were made for it - born to do it. Every part of their anatomy was 'designed' for it. I love seeing the roots growing along the wood sticking tightly, and how the pseudobulbs slowly plump back up after watering. Millions of years of evolution have refined them over and over, at each turn giving rise to increasingly superior models that were better adapted to only this way of life, discarding the weak along the way and leaving only the absolute best at what they do. ... All just to end up in a pot? Not on my watch, buddy!  | Oh, I believe this is the best reason I have ever heard... The same thing here!  |