Valentine’s Day Orchid

My husband isn’t much in to traditional things - and since he isn’t I’m not either. I used to be. We tend to celebrate every day rather than go all out on designated holidays. Rather than buy flowers and cards, go out to dinner or whatever, we just acknowledge the day. But today was interesting in that our orchid - which hasn’t bloomed since we received it as a housewarming gift five years ago - bloomed today of all days! My brother and SIL gave the plant to us when we moved from Capitol Hill to northern Virginia and we have cared for it ever since - without a lot of luck. No matter what we did, nothing happened - until last October. What I thought was just another root turned out to be a stalk. And I have been watching it every day since then. Apparently the orchids do bloom in the winter and we were thrilled to watch its progress. The only thing that we did different was turn the pot the other way so the roots faced the window and the little bit of sun that was coming through the west side. So in honor of Valentine’s Day we are so happy to see that the orchid plant finally bloomed! What a great day for it to show itself!