Orchids

Right before I left last time, Sow and I had discovered a little area just north of the main city that sells mostly orchids. We walked around there for hours checking everything out. Later we talked to the handy man around here about building a little shaded bamboo overhang in front of our place. We didn't let that stop us from getting a couple orchids at the flower festival.

The overhang was built the week after I left, and two lonely orchids were placed in the shade beneath it. Today we made it back to the flower market and picked up about $20 worth of orchids. What's that look like in Thailand? Well, pretty much most of the above photo including two larger pots just below the lower left. Dude, that's gotta be like $500 worth of flowers in LA!? I'm so setting up an orchid farm when I get back. Harry, sorry, but I'm building the greenhouse right where your dog house is now...

I took one of the little chairs Daniel got me for Christmas and put it out front. I'm about to go hang out there and read my book. I'm having flashbacks to the first time I went to Maui. I stayed with my friend jennifer and no one in her house would wake up as early as me, being 3 hours ahead and all. I'd go out in the morning, sit on the porch, read my book, and drink POG. I remember the weird thing at the time was I was reading the last book in The Keep series. The first morning I sat down to read, the book had two characters traveling to Maui to deal with someone atop Haleakala crater, the volcano that I'd just learned the day before which was responsible for forming the island of Maui. Surreal. I wonder if I go sit out front right now, will my current Dick Francis novel have a section taking place in Chaing Mai?