Although the orchids bloomed in June, the tiny purple flowers lasted for only a few weeks, each with five loose petals surrounding a tubular petal with a ruffled lip revealing dark, narrow strips inside.
Our music used to be played by skilled orchestras; intelligible singers rendered tunes about dancing in the dark while orchids bloomed in the moonlight and nightingales sang in Berkeley Square and stars fell on Alabama -- silly sentiments, but carried along by intelligent melodic phraseology, and if the words were doggerel they were often wonderfully compelling.
In one 1960 collage drawing, a woman stands, hands on hips, a great orange orchid blooming from her crotch.
Also of note in Pudong is the new $125 million Shanghai Oriental Art Center, which was designed by the French architect Paul Andreu and, they say, is meant to look like a butterfly orchid blooming in a large glass bowl.
Some orchids bloom at night, their fragrance wafting toward besotted moths.
He would love to have an orchid bloom for him above the Arctic Circle, but he never gets up there except on summer cruises, the orchids bloom in January and February, usually when the ship is in the tropics.
It boasts seven restaurants, as well as the chocolate-and-cream Bamboo Bar, where orchids bloom out of lime slices in the well-salted margaritas.
Today Rospuda valley quivers with life: lizards and insects with wings like blades of grass slip between ferns and moss; jays call out in imitation of the buzzards; in autumn, red marsh berries grow; in spring, wild orchids bloom.
The race, one in a series of 12 trail events organized this year by the Ohio River Road Runners Club, features a course of twisting trails through an old-growth woodland preserve where wild turkeys roost and orchids bloom with the warming days of spring.
