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Today is April 1. and we are not kidding. This is the new thread for the month.

My old Rhyncholaelia glauca didn't look so hot on its old, decaying mound, so a couple of years ago I took the remainder of the plant off that and anchored it with a bit of coconut fiber in a claypot. It opened a nice bloom, just perfectly timed to start the thread.



The Mps roezlii v xanthina is still blooming along



I enjoy this cute little Rodrumnia Orchidom Valentine x Orchidom Happy Spots



Stelis ciliaris has teensy blooms




Leptotes bicolor starts up



Please all join in!

Just a wonderful start for April, Ursula. Thanx

Good show Ursula.

always a great show to start the month! Happy April fools!

And this is a beauty too

Yes, it is! @carlosviera is a new member, hopefully we get to see more of him!

Very pretty orange Cattleya! "Kadaoka" is a very famous clone that has been around and is a proven breeder too.
Love it!!!

Lovely start for April, Ursula. I love the close-up of the tiny Stelis blooms. Not only a pretty color, but fuzzy, too. So cute.

Nothing new for me today, Den anosmum continues to flirt with opening - maybe tomorrow. A couple of flowers are halfway at least.

I do have some very large ! Phal flowers opening in my bathroom, though. A miracle that I've seemed to find the sweet spots for these, bottom of my hanging area in the pool cage for summer, and indoors for their bloom time in winter. The mini-Phals on the same mount are fading already after a month's bloom, so I could wish they would co-ordinate better, but still enjoying this.

All we need now is a GIANT BASKET of colored eggs!!
🐣🐇🐥

Elaine, they are huge indeed!

Nick, I did color the eggs as I usually do. But I also included in my picture my attempt of making Marzipan-Chocolate Bunnies, which had us and everybody else cracking up....Hence no pic from me this year😂😂😂.

Unless you insist?😂

Marzipan/chocolate bunnies? I am not adventurous enough for that! Well maybe.
I have to remember to look for Chocolate bunnies discounted at the market. I suddenly have a craving for chocolate!!!!

You are allowed to laugh! We did! Perhaps it is appropriate for April 1.

But in my defense, they are delicious!

they still look cute bunnies to me!

It appears that the bunnies stayed up late on Saturday for a bit too much 'Happy Juice'!
Stand up straight fellas!!!

Oh what a nice batch of colored eggs! Boy those take me back.

Gigi, you are too nice! I looked at them and lost it! 😂😂

It sure gave me an extra level of respect thinking of those baking competitions!

I have zero talent on making any thing except paper dolls. And I'm embarrassed to admit I would go for the plastic eggs since I'm not good with decorating or coloring eggs. The most bunnies I get are the chocolate ones from Russel Strover. There is a big chocolate outlet store here near The Villages area.

Oh man, don't get me started!
There are only two things that could survive a nuclear blast on this planet 🌎
Cockroaches and those yellow "PEEPS"!!
Remember those things?!?!
Easter Peeps! I still think I have some trapped, undigested, in my colon!!!

They're fabulous, Ursula. Much more fun than the perfect ones would have been. And in the final outcome, what's more valuable than a good laugh?

When my kids were young we used to decorate Easter eggs. I couldn't stand to waste the egg so we'd 'blow' the raw eggs out into a dish, and have a batch of personalized omelettes, or fancy scrambled eggs for Easter breakfast, too. The decorated eggs then would keep beautifully from year to year and some of them were very fancy. Wish I could find some pictures of them. But of course when it came to moving to Florida from our family home in Utah, those eggs just were too fragile to worry about. They're gone.

Now I get fresh 'free range' eggs from a friend with chickens, and they're beautiful natural colors.

I think those are my all time favorite chocolate Easter bunnies Ursula. They have a certain (too much Easter Happy Juice) charm you will never be able to replicate.

My daughter's Girl Scout troop spent their entire meeting last week murdering and torturing Peeps. According to the kids, best meeting ever! Unfortunately, they couldn't find any liquid nitrogen.

Smiling here!

I am amazed at the natural colors of the free range chickens.