A Short Family Legend

This is an orchid tree that is planted outside our office, and more specifically outside my office (I get the corner office with the view, because I can't concetrate on accounting thoughts when the rest of the folks around me are talking). The office is what is affectionately known as "Grandma's House", because that is what it was, until her death back in 1986. An aunt lived there for a while, and then she moved and so some of the grandchildren bought the house in order to preserve it for posterity, and we ended up making it our office. It is a classic 1950's house, with pink formica kitchen counters, one pink tiled bathroom, and one yellow tiled bathroom, and a myriad of other features from that era. But I digress. The family story says that Grandpa planted the orchid tree shortly before he died around 1960. It never bloomed, until more than 25 years later; the first flowers ever appeared shortly after Grandma's death. It smells heavenly right now.