We heard that recently... and to the person who took recourse to this age old and hackneyed truism, it sounded like a duck, it walked like a duck...but in reality turned out to be a moose! 😁
And deservedly so! Congrats, David, on the very well deserved awards: the FCC for the plant and the ACE cultural award for you and your ingenious efforts! 😁
Most kind regards,
Jens
Well, the ways of the genetic lottery are for me as unsearchable and past finding out as are the ways of the Lord!
I don't think percentages will provide any help in deciding which genes are dominant or which are recessive... not to speak of which contributes to sheer chance.
I have a P...
Very nice both of them, Stephen, though I think no. 2 takes the prize, due to the colour breaks in the lip of no. 1 (that otherwise would have been my top contender!) 🙂
It became something else (changed status), whilst in the flask? 😃
Both nice...but I, too, am like Darlene (Djthomp) especially fond of the Phal., because of its very intense colouring as well as its markings!
Ray, not an operasinger... the great French coloratura soprano at the Met in the 1940's.
First in the Bell Song from Lakmé:
Then one of her best recordings - the wonderful Hymn to the Sun from Rimsky Korsakov's Coq d'Or: