Kathryn Duval

@kathrynduval

Artist, orchid lover, SF/fantasy nerd, resident in paradise Hilo HI, former tech instructional designer

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Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· 13h

Two tiny bulbophyllum flowers blooming in my front yard.

Two long thin Bulbophyllum blooms. The background is blurry with a long stalk of a ti plant (to which the orchid is tied) and some pink impatiens.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· 2d

A beautiful bloom at the tropical botanical garden, reminds me of a bamboo orchids, arundina graminfolia, but pretty sure it’s something else.

Pink flower with dark pink lip against a leafy background

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· 6d

A video from a couple of hours ago. The rain still continues through the night. Notice my ohia tree, it was very full and bushy but now multiple branches have broken from hurricane Lala’s gusts.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· 20d

And the dendrobium orchid that just appeared on my tree one day blooms again.

Dendrobium spike with white and pink flowers against a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· 21d

Episode 52 of Kilauea volcano, taken on Tuesday night about 10 pm. i just used my phone so not as great a photo, but it was impressive. I’ve heard it was 600 ft high. I’ve seen higher, but this was a very wide fountain.

Fountain of golden lava at night, lava rivers coming down on left, center and right of hill, red cloud above.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jul 21

The perils of paradise.

A window looking outside to a tropical landscape with lush vegetation. The room in the foreground contains a comfy couch and lamps well set up for reading, if only my books would get delivered.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jul 11

Found this little guy on one of my orchids when I checked if they needed watering. I’m calling him lizard because I never remember which are geckos and which are anoles. Guessing anole, but I’ve been wrong before.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jul 9

Does this poster with Shakespeare count as celebrity pic? He would be an interesting therapist - so many apt comments he could make. He seems like he is tuned into the human condition.

Poster for local performance of The Comedy of Errors with two images of Shakespeare back to back on the bottom with “Let’s go hand in hand not one before another” at the bottom.

The poster also says the performance is free and gives all the dates, times and the location.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jul 4

Here’s an ohia lehua. Also a great firework flower.

Ohia lehua flower - bright red with yellow tips like a firework

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jun 27

Appleware dishes from my mother and grandmother - why would I spend to replace it when I have settings for 10 and every possible style of serving bowl and platter?

Party foods on dishes with a red apple and leaf design. From top left clockwise: salsa container on apple ware plate, bell peppers and snap peas surrounding a dip on apple ware plate,rare plate, cheese wedge on wood cutting board, peppered salmon on apple ware plate, crackers in long oval appleware bowl, tortilla chips in bowl (appleware but design not visible).

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jun 26

Thought a rainbow with flowers might brighten your day.

Rainbow arching down to tree in the background. Foreground is a clump of heliconia in bloom. Background is a lawn with palm trees, more distant suburban houses and gray sky.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jun 16

It’s International Waterfall Day so here’s a waterfall on Jeju Island in South Korea that I visited in May.

Tall plunge waterfall dropping into ocean pool surrounded by large rocks. Tourists are walking on the rocks to get closer to the waterfall and pool.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jun 4

Some mushrooms for your pleasure. Hoping your day improves.

A vertical string of mushrooms on a hapu’u fern trunk.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· May 25

I want to share this awesomely huge black butterfly I recently saw in Mokpo, South Korea. Probably a spangle butterfly (Papilio protenor) or the long tail spangle (Papilio macilentus), but I don’t really know. Super cool tho.

Large black butterfly with tails in a bush with bright pink flowers.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· May 6

A beautiful beginning to a day that turned out quite fine. My orange Oncidium orchid is going strong.

A pine tree in shadow with many orchid stems jutting out. Sprays of orange Oncidium blooms are among them. In the background is a pink and orange sky at sunrise, with light blue sky above.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· May 3

Some nice mushrooms from yesterday’s walk

Scalloped mushrooms in a vertical row on a tree trunk

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Apr 22

Happy fern appreciation day.

A wide path lined with hapu’u tree ferns and uluhe climbing ferns. Ohia trees tower above.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Mar 29

This was my favorite but the photo isn’t that great.

Sign saying “The wrong ICE is melting” with a polar bear’s head poking out of water surrounded by short ice bergs on the bottom of the sign.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Mar 19

One of my favorite things about living on Hawai’i: parking lot orchids.

Several dendrobrium orchids with blossoms in multiple colors in a thicket.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Mar 5

A’ama - black rock crab on a rock in our local botanical garden

A large rock on the left of the photo with a silvery black crab on the bottom edge just above the surf

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Feb 28

My indoor orchids in bloom, nicely reflected in a mirror. Also allowing me to show off my shower mosaic.

Light pink phal orchids doubled by a reflection in a bathroom mirror. The reflection also shows a tiled shower mural of an octopus and seaweed.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Feb 27

One of the orchids in my garden.

Spiky spidery orchids, probably one of those brassy types. A few blooms with the spiky petals and sepals of brown with a pink lip with brown spots circled in white.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Feb 27

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

A tropical stream meandering through mossy rocks. Large fern fronds overhang the stream and the trunks of tall palms can be seen upstream.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Feb 25

One of my orchids is starting to bloom.

Blooming orchid, one flower open, one bud opening.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Feb 17

I’m feeling like Bluesky could use some flowers tonight and these are some from my garden that I gathered to make this arrangement.

A vase with a pink and green striped ti, two pink anthuriums, some orange impatiens, ferns and a couple of other large leaves. The vase sits on the floor against the rounded edge of a desk.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Feb 8

Happy winter from Hilo, Hawai’i

Blue sky, green grass, palm trees reflected in a stream.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jan 26

These are very light rocks but falling from high up as you drive towards them. Ash and glass, mostly small but some larger.

My hand holding the new born volcanic rock, super light weight with some sharp edges. Rock is size of my palm roughly.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jan 26

Thought you might like my view from lunch Saturday. This is from the Volcano House restaurant in the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. We walked through falling tephra to our car, crunching what was underfoot. Our car was littered with rocks. We drove out just before the highway and park shut down.

A silhouetted restaurant patron at a table by a large window that looks on a wall of lava two miles away in the Kilauea crater. There is a large amount of smoke and tephra coming off it on the right.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jan 25

We were there today. The episode is awesome. We left just before they closed the park and the highway. Drove slowly through the falling rocks.

Tall and wide lava fountains in Kilauea crater, a large amount of tephra surrounding the fountains. Foreground is ohia trees just in front of the crater rim.

Kathryn Duval@kathrynduval· Jan 25

Sometimes when things seem overwhelming it helps me to remember the awesome power of the earth. Kilauea volcano was erupting today and I had the privilege to experience Pele’s majesty.