Bamboo and Orchids

Well Toritto is back at home on the Florida Gulf coast after having spend a week with my daughter, son in law and grandson Clark in their new home over Thanksgiving.

Everyone alive in this country today knows the problems and worry associated with children playing outside and thus spending too much time in front of a television being entertained by the likes of Mickey, Big Bird and Marvel.  Certainly there is a place for that in childhood  but there is also a need for a child to be outside.

And Clark’s outside is now a magic garden behind his house where he is free to explore and learn.  This week he has learned to love “outside.”

Behind his home is an oriental garden filled with bamboo, palms, Florida plants, birds, several images of Buddha and an abundance of orchids – all totally fenced and walled in.  I’m sure there are small animals out there as well.  It is also the perfect place for Grandpa to sip a Dewar’s neat on a balmy Florida evening.

There are dozens of orchids scattered about the garden and my daughter and her husband will now have a new hobby  – gardening and learning to care for orchids.

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Gonna be helping Daddy!

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Of course Papa and Clark boy did silly things in the house

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Peeling an orange together

Grandpa as the King!

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