Saturday, July 24, 2010

La Mer

....US market dipped 200 points ? Europe and Hang Seng bleeding red ink too .....that's bad Bill.... yep me too, I don't think employment data will shine tonight.... you poor man, luckily you just trimmed your portfolio last week....you didn't ? Yes I heard...the second biggest investment fund here is busted .... your money's in it ? .... what a depressing week you have, I am so sorry...... Who me ?

Well don't think you want to know....
ok if you insist....

....a bloody long flight and a thousand miles on the tarmac, I was on this shaky boat at the so called Bay of Fundy, keeping a watchful eye on the feathered bombers - these birds think the whole sky is their toilet.... but what blue sky, and sea too I have never seen it so blue....those cliffs are so high its like the Nasdaq during the dot com boom (snigger snigger).... and have you ever smelled the breath from the whales ? They smelled like .... like smelly armpits.... haha...actually its from the blow holes at the top....no gills Bill they are mammals like us, .... those fat seals lazing on the rocks, they remind me of you flat out at the bar counter after a really bad trading day, .... come to think of it, today will certainly count as one hahahahahaha ..........

hello Bill ..... you still there ? .....


pics 1-3: "Bird Island" off St Andrews, New Brunswick
pic 4: Grand Manan Island
pic 5: Minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata - smallest Baleen whale
pic 6: Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus - second largest Baleen whale, after the blue.

My memory of fins, feathers and fine weather of Fundy ....

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Its a sign ....

This one is so cool it should be on the cover of The Rolling Stone.

For a measly sum, someone passed me this thinking it was Bulbophyllum antenneferum. When the flower popped out some months later, I was like - holy moley, what the heck was that - blink blink !

Well, it is treasured for not being an antenneferum. Its sepals are way too thin and long. At the onset of opening fully, the bloom looked as if it clasped its hands in prayer .

Its probably Bulbophyllum unitubum or the close relative kemensinus from New Guinea. So far all its flowers open in this manner - quite fascinating. If anyone knows its true ID, please share it here !

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