Fairie Lantern is very new. This particular "stem" of little orchids always grows in this hook shape. I've noticed other sorts of anomalies in certain rose centers that show up year after year. Like very welcome, quirky old friends. (Right now I'm having a hard time getting into the soft mood of this photo. After a bunch of automatic MS system updates recently, I find my three major photo editing programs not working and playing well together. I'm getting "locked file" messages and "You need Administrative permission to ..." errors. Ack. Never had any of that nonsense before. And I'm having to do lots of recopying of pix under new names to get around it. Another example of "Why did they fix it when it wasn't broken?" Once I'm more clear headed I'll try to find out what the problem is that got introduced by the updates. Sheesh.)

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