Orchids and terrariums

When I went to the Botanical Gardens last week, they were selling "gently used orchids."

We totally cleaned up.

Excuse the blurriness of these pictures.  Lighting was bad, and my camera is a point and shoot.

Now I'm feeling like Nero Wolfe.

I also did a terrarium tutorial for a friend last week.  

We might have gone a little overboard.

Once you get started with terrariums, its hard to stop!  And this time of year the fancy succulents are appearing in Southern garden stores (though if you live in California, apparently they grow like moss - plentiful and underfoot year-round).