Perspective . . .
Today I'm assembling photos and text into a presentation called "Introduction to Orchids" for the Northeast Georgia Orchid Society.
While researching material for the presentation, I came across a tidbit of information, that there is solid scientific information that orchids were on the planet 76 to 84 million years ago, and co-existed with dinosaurs. This is based on Harvard paleontologists finding bees preserved in amber that clearly have identifiable pollinia attached to their backs.
This means that orchids not only lived with dinosaurs, but survived the cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs, and a large percentage of life on Earth. Possibly caused by collision of an asteroid or comet with Earth. And orchids survived and thrived afterward.
In perspective, we should not worry too much when we forget to water for a couple of days, use the wrong fertilizer, or don't dab cinnamon on a cut leaf.
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