
Just a nice break from Chavez, dissident military officers and the like. This is a Cirrhopetalum Elizabeth Ann, a hybrid orchid which just flowered for the first time in my house. Weird isn’t it?
Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.

Just a nice break from Chavez, dissident military officers and the like. This is a Cirrhopetalum Elizabeth Ann, a hybrid orchid which just flowered for the first time in my house. Weird isn’t it?
This entry was posted on November 1, 2002 at 11:29 pm and is filed under Orchids.
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