spring time with color and care

Orchids have long been a favorite..in Kuala Lumpur we had so many varieties and oh so many pots, alas I never could get them to bloom again, or killed them outright.  They were easily found to buy.  My favorite place to go was the leper colony.  While no longer a dreaded disease People were allowed to remain in their homes and many of them took to gardening and the selections were awesome.  one day we bought a few to put on one of our balconies.....but we needed a trellis.  Now that took some time to find, but we were successful, finally. The problem was how to get it halfway across town in a small toyota.  Ok, we put it on the roof, there was no twine or rope to be had, so to make a very long story short, I had to hang out the window trying my best to hold on to it as it flapped in the breeze.  I think I was lost all feeling in my arm.

Of course there were many instances where shopping and transport was difficult  (and this is a digression from Orchids.)  One day while browsing through central market in KL's Chinatown,  we were admitted through a locked door (I guess to keep the riff raff out?) We found an antique table, chair and a few other items.  What fun to carry them to the car, as we walked through a busy Chinatown in search of said car We had table over head, chair under arm and well every thing else just hanging around.  The looks we got were fantastically funny, and eventually we got where we needed to go.  This not a one off in the 3 years we lived there, a the joys of no parking lots near the bowels of Chinatown were always a challenge.

Getting back to orchids,  I wonder how long I can keep this one alive.  Any bets?