Rice Terraces in Autumn (2019) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Mussel (2016) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Shall never not be amazed at running into these dinosaurs in my daily life here in Bangkok. Saw one sauntering down an alley about 2 blocks from our shophouse just the other day when I was returning from the market. You get remarkably used to seeing them.

Spring Pond (2022) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

How is it that in spite of being a ridiculous bibliophile I'm JUST NOW learning about the Open Library project? I've been building my own digital library for over a dozen years and have sometimes struggled to catalog them well due to lack of standardized data. WHY didn't y'all tell me, lol? 📚

Sunset at Cape (2019) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Take my money, already! 💰😍

Railroad in Flowers (2023) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

I love this! Have always wondered about a direct comparison of Thailand's size (where I live) with American states.

Cabbage (2023) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Portion of the conservatory from William Henry Vanderbilt's long ago demolished Fifth Avenue Triple Palace in New York City, as seen in 1883. ☆ 🌱 ☆ 🪴 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🌴 ☆ Gilded Age greenery, at its finest.

Fireflies (2025) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

These two plants, that have already bloomed earlier this summer, have suddenly shot out 5 more inflorescences. They ain't done yet, apparently. 🤩 Watch this space early September! Finlayson's Cymbidium Cymbidium finlaysonianum กะเรกะร่อนปากเป๊ด ☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🪴 ☆ 📍Khao Tao, Thailand

All other answers incorrect. 😉

Perhaps a bit too obsessed with the half dead leaves of my giant taro plant that I've been trimming back this morning. I wish there was some way to preserve these otherwise fleeting colors & patterns. 🪴 ☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🌿 Alocasia macrorrhizos 📍Khao Tao, Thailand

Some excellent photos of Saigon here, some of which I haven't seen before. Here's a useful map of former (colonial) French street names that will help you orient some of the shots. 🇻🇳 📷

Excellent deep dive into the unique version of art deco and streamline moderne styles that were developed in the 1930s-40s in Malaya and Singapore.

What some anthropologists consider to be the most isolated tribe in the world, the remaining few dozen inhabitants of North Sentinel Island are thought to have migrated from Africa 50,000 years ago. The Andaman & Nicobar Islands lie halfway between India & mainland Southeast Asia.

Insect Catching (2016) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Deep in a rubber plantation, hunting for peacock feathers. Life ain't bad. 🌳🦚🌳 📍 Wang Pong, Thailand

Having every imaginable shade of green is required. Thems the rules. 🌴🌿🪴🌱💚🌱🪴🌿🌴 #MonsoonSeason 📍Khao Tao, Thailand

Sea Cave (2022) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Tunnel to the Sea (2017) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

One of my brassavola species is coming into bloom for the second time since I got it last Sept. It normally lives on rocks & trees in the coastal rainforests across a swath from Colombia & Venezuela up thru the Caribbean. How I adore the weird ones. 🌱🌿🌴🪴 Brassavola cucullata The Hooded Brassavola

Fresh Green at the Lake (2025) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

A tiny dot-lined angle moth the size of my thumbnail I noticed in one of the outdoor passageways of our hotel. 🫶🦋🫶 [Macaria abydata] 📍Hua Hin, Thailand

@misterkwai.bsky.social an epic paddling story for your Sunday morning reading--but who am I fooling? You're probably out on the water already as I type. 😉

We live about 45 min north of Sam Roi Yod National Park and have spent a lot of time paddleboarding the marshes & canals that crisscross the area's breathtaking landscape. I have never known much about fishing cats as not much info in English on them here in Thailand. Highly recommended read. 🐈

A Moment of Summer (2024) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

This 80cm/32" bad girl just opened her blooms for the first time since I got her over a year ago. Turned out to be a golden/alba variation of the other plant I have of the same species which has a more reddish center. Cymbidium aloifolium Thai: กะเรกะร่อน 🌱 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🪴

After thought to be extinct due to over harvesting by the early 1900s, a single lone plant was found in a remote area of the Yorkshire Dales in 1930. A network of volunteers, together with breeders and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew led a decades long secret plan to reintroduce it in the wild. 🌱

The Beach at Dawn (2019) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Some macro shots in the afternoon rain of the new deep red variation of deer antler orchid I picked up a few weeks back at the Burmese border market, Dan Singkhon. Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Thai: เขากวางอ่อน 🌱 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🪴

The rattlesnake orchids are doing their thing. ☆🐍☆ Coelogyne imbricata Thai: เอื้องกาบดอก 🌱🌿🌴🪴

I've been growing orchids for 25+ years as an amateur hobbyist & have about 3 dozen species, but I've never really been into paphiopedilums (slipper orchids). I tend towards the weirder genera & paphs just seemed too mainstream as they are so popular worldwide. Also, I'm not interested in hybrids.

This entire thread 100%. While AI closes in all around us, being forced on us at every turn, it increasingly triggers only negative emotions in me.

Stuff in bloom this weekend: The Deer Antlered Phalaenopsis Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi (var. deep red) เขากวางอ่อน Vanda vietnamica กุหลาบเวียดนาม Finlayson's Cymbidium Cymbidium finlaysonianum กะเรกะร่อนปากเป๊ด Rattlesnake Orchid Coelogyne imbricata กุหลาบเวียดนาม ☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🪴 ☆ 📍Khao Tao, Thailand

As the United States seeks to roll back and vastly reduce the amount of marine protected areas within its territory, small island nations on the front lines of climate change might be our only hope to preserve the diversity of ocean life on our planet.

Path to the Sea (2020) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

The most enjoyable part of my job for me is the weekly market runs for our small food business. All our fresh fruit, vegetables & produce, as well as many of our dried goods come from Pak Klong Talad. More famous for its touristed flower market, it also has a large wholesale food section. 📍 Bangkok

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA. All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

We get jade hawkmoths all the time in our garden, but this was the first time I've ever seen am impatiens hawkmoth, outside the food court in Ao Manao yesterday, about an hour south of us. 🦋 [Theretra oldenlandiae] 📍https://maps.app.goo.gl/EbaAvBs2CUgGmKhA8

Today's orchid species haul from Dan Singkhon Market on the Burmese border. Say them with me: Bulbophyllum morphologorum Coelogyne imbricata Dendrobium chrysotoxum Grammatophyllum scriptum Grammatophyllum speciosum Pelatantheria insectifera Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Seidenfadenia mitrata 🌱 🪴 🌿 🌴

Ravine in Summer (2022) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Hydrangea Path (2022) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Burma and (to some degree) Laos (?!) make the list.

This is infuriating. I hope charges are brought and this becomes an international incident. No excuse for a cargo ship to be in this area. These islands are some of the most pristine coral in the entire country.

Mental Health Break: a magnificent thread of cookies that are literally works of art.

A Break in the Rainy Season (2024)

The last & only time the Singapore Botanic Gardens sent a delegation to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show was in 1957, led by then director Richard Eric Holttum, who had initiated the Gardens’ orchid hybridisation programme in 1928. To anyone who has ever been to SBG, it is no surprise they won gold. 🌱🪴🌴