Saturday, March was spent at Skagit Valley Nursery working at the annual Mount Baker Society Orchid Show. Our society is quite small and the show accordingly small, with six displays and about an equal number of vendors. It is usually the only show I in which I put in a display and one of only a very few I attend, so it is especially enjoyable for me. The photos below show some of the displays including that put in by our society, a display which won the American Orchid Society's show trophy. I put in my showcase, as I do every year, but instead of the mountain scene I've used the past few years, I put in something a little more formal. It included 35-40 plants and I won two American orchid Society awards, a Certificate of Botanical Recognition (CBR/AOS) for Dryadella pusiola 'Erin', awarded with around 200 flowers and a Certificate of Cultural Merit (CCM/AOS) for Effusiella cypripedioides 'Ashlynn' awarded with sixty flowers and buds as Stelis cypripedioides. Dryadella pusiola 'Erin' CBR-CHM/AOS Stelis cypripedioides 'Ashlynn' CCM/AOS Photography is always a challenge at a show. The lighting is variable and sometimes poor, in this case not very strong, the backgrounds tend to be cluttered and in large displays the flowers are often beyond reach. I enjoy the challenge, however, and spent quite a bit of time at it, since this is likely the only show I will be able to attend. These are some of the better pictures I was able to get, the flowers identified wherever possible and divided into different types of orchids. PHALAENOPSIS Dtps. Sin-yuan Golden Beauty 'Fairy Tale' Phal. Fuller's Sunset Phal. cornu-cervi alba Phal. Ching Ann Diamond 'Mei Datstar' Phal. hybrid Phal. Taida Firebird 'Jane' Phal. Ho's Amy Christopher Phal. equestris 'Seagrove's Gabriel Phal. hybrid Phal. Luchia Fire 'Fu-Shing' Phal. schilleriana 'Pink Butterfly' PAPHIOPEDILUM Paph. Red Phantom x Jim Iverson and Paph. Sunbeam Paph. hybrid Paph. Norito Hasegawa and Paph. Myra Paph. Emerald Sea x primulinum DENDROBIUMS Dend. Nora Tokunaga BULBOPHYLLUMS Bulb. wendlandianum Bulb. echinolabium Bulb. picturatum CYMBIDIUMS Cym. hybrid Cym. hybrid CATTLEYA ALLIANCE Brassolaeliocattleya Memoria Crispin Rosales Sophrolaeliocattleya Mem. Alvin Begeman Epidendrum parkinsonianum Epidendrum parviflorum ONCIDUM ALLIANCE Vuylstekeara Jerry Lawless 'Golden Gate' Vuylstekeara Carnivale Miltoniopsis hybrid MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES AND HYBRIDS Dendrochilum cobbianum Dendrochilum uncatum 'Stony Point' Amesiella monticola Sarchochilus hartmanii Pleione formosana 'Aunt Trudy' Maxillaria porphyrostele Fredclarkeara After Dark Bletilla ochracea 'Chinese Butterfly' Phaius pauciflorus Lycaste Absolutely Stunning 'Grantham's Glory Stenorhynchos glicensteinii