[UPDATED 03-05-2024: I added several photos to the beginning of the post that weren’t initially available.]

I headed this afternoon to the Botanical Gardens on South Park Avenue in South Buffalo (officially, the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens). It was the last day of “Orchid Fest.”  I should have grabbed my real camera as I rushed out my door, but the same lazy streak that has resulted in dependence on my iPhone to capture images for the past several years struck again.

Nonetheless, here are some of the flowers that caught my eye.  Enjoy.

At this point, I truly am disappointed in myself for relying on my “smart” phone.  Many of the pictures that I attempted to take somehow ended up thumb-size photos or are in an unopenable format.  To remind myself to make the extra effort the next time I plan to capture images to share, here are a couple “minis”:

Humbly yours,

Art Giacalone

P.S. I’m adding one more picture of orchids, a plant given to me by a friend on my birthday in early December. I greatly appreciated the gesture.