Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? - Ridley Scott
This blog will act as an attempt to chronicle what is sure to be one of the most ridiculously confusing, interesting and wild years I've ever experienced.

By compiling a series of 365 black and white photos and accompanied text you're invited to follow along the ride of an undergraduate student with severe biophilia. This year will mark a year that I leave the continent, graduate from my Bachelors degree, start graduate studies, try to make heads and tails of life and and search for an elusive tiger beetle.

Feel free to post feedback, ask questions, and give suggestions. Hope that your 2013 is looking to be a wonderful, wonderful year.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

10. Orchid Fever

Today was a stellar day. I finalized my application to Oxford University, as well as had notification of my first co-authored manuscript being published. It's been a super day!

Everyone has a favourite sort of flower. I can never decide what mine is, but it often comes back to members of the orchid family. This one is a specimen in the Collins Horticulture Building, where I'm taking a special topics independent course with Prof. Carol Goodwin. This will bring me to this beautiful Greenhouse at least once a week to document some of the interesting plants.

This one is in the Cypripedioideae subfamily. It wasn't labeled with species or genus, and my identificatio wouldn't be accurate as Orchids are very, very, diverse and I know little of their taxonomy. 

I've been saving up a bit of money to purchase some orchids at a sale at Acadia University later this winter. I cannot wait to care for some of these beauties on my own. 
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  1. Crystal FullertonJanuary 13, 2013 at 10:11 AM

    You are in inspiration to us all Paul, even if you like bugs!! ;)

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