Benjamin Lord
@benjalord.bsky.social
Digital refugee. Baker. Southern boy. Freak. Pug & Frenchie dad. American in Southeast Asia for 25+ yrs. Seeker of beauty. Chaser of waterfalls. Bibliophile. Plant obsessed. I'd rather be on my paddleboard, but here we are.
📍 Bangkok & Khao Tao, Thailand
📍 Bangkok & Khao Tao, Thailand
The drastic drop in both temperature & humidity over the past week has brought out the pinks & purples in the garden.
🩷 🌱 💜 🌿 🩷 🌴 💜 🪴 🩷
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
1) Pelatantheria insectifera (กล้วยไม้ เอื้อง จักจั่น)
2) Aechmea fasciata (สับปะรดสี)
🩷 🌱 💜 🌿 🩷 🌴 💜 🪴 🩷
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
1) Pelatantheria insectifera (กล้วยไม้ เอื้อง จักจั่น)
2) Aechmea fasciata (สับปะรดสี)
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The drastic drop in both temperature & humidity over the past week has brought out the pinks & purples in the garden.
🩷 🌱 💜 🌿 🩷 🌴 💜 🪴 🩷
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
1) Pelatantheria insectifera (กล้วยไม้ เอื้อง จักจั่น)
2) Aechmea fasciata (สับปะรดสี)
🩷 🌱 💜 🌿 🩷 🌴 💜 🪴 🩷
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
1) Pelatantheria insectifera (กล้วยไม้ เอื้อง จักจั่น)
2) Aechmea fasciata (สับปะรดสี)
A pair of Hübner's Wasp Moths getting jiggy with it this morning. Also known as handmaiden moths, they mimic the appearance of being wasps to deter predators.
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand 🦋🐝
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand 🦋🐝
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
A pair of Hübner's Wasp Moths getting jiggy with it this morning. Also known as handmaiden moths, they mimic the appearance of being wasps to deter predators.
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand 🦋🐝
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand 🦋🐝
Outstanding photography of a mesmerizing variety of corn and maize kernals from around the world. #photography #nature
📷 : @jdfrei.bsky.social
📷 : @jdfrei.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Outstanding photography of a mesmerizing variety of corn and maize kernals from around the world. #photography #nature
📷 : @jdfrei.bsky.social
📷 : @jdfrei.bsky.social
How those hermit crabs actually see themselves.
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
How those hermit crabs actually see themselves.
Seasons changing, as the monsoons finally give way to winter. Reproduction in high gear with buds, flowers, and mature seedpods abounding across the garden.
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📍 Khao Tao, Thailand 🇹🇭
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📍 Khao Tao, Thailand 🇹🇭
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Seasons changing, as the monsoons finally give way to winter. Reproduction in high gear with buds, flowers, and mature seedpods abounding across the garden.
☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🪴 ☆ 🌴
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand 🇹🇭
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📍 Khao Tao, Thailand 🇹🇭
Went to both mangrove forests at opposite ends of the commercial fishing port in Pak Nam Pran. Very much appreciate the (new?) restaurant on the riverside that allowed me to paddle up and get an iced cold beer to go without me even having to get off my board.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Went to both mangrove forests at opposite ends of the commercial fishing port in Pak Nam Pran. Very much appreciate the (new?) restaurant on the riverside that allowed me to paddle up and get an iced cold beer to go without me even having to get off my board.
😎🍺
😎🍺
It's difficult to find places in Thailand with no other humans. I find it important to seek these places out and be alone amongst the nature. Extremely rewarding.
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
It's difficult to find places in Thailand with no other humans. I find it important to seek these places out and be alone amongst the nature. Extremely rewarding.
Found my happy spot again. It's been too long. I feel so at peace when I'm deep inside the mangrove forest. A magnificent journey on the first proper day of winter. 🌳🛶🌳
📍 Pak Nam Pran, Thailand
📍 Pak Nam Pran, Thailand
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Found my happy spot again. It's been too long. I feel so at peace when I'm deep inside the mangrove forest. A magnificent journey on the first proper day of winter. 🌳🛶🌳
📍 Pak Nam Pran, Thailand
📍 Pak Nam Pran, Thailand
You barely ever see the radar go beyond the dark red into the light pink zone. Bangkok getting whalloped on right as the river is about to burst its banks. Fun times for a city mostly 5 meters or less above sea level. 🙃
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
You barely ever see the radar go beyond the dark red into the light pink zone. Bangkok getting whalloped on right as the river is about to burst its banks. Fun times for a city mostly 5 meters or less above sea level. 🙃
Hope everyone had a spooktacular Halloween weekend.
🦇 🖤 🎃 🖤 🦇
🦇 🖤 🎃 🖤 🦇
November 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Hope everyone had a spooktacular Halloween weekend.
🦇 🖤 🎃 🖤 🦇
🦇 🖤 🎃 🖤 🦇
All these blooms are tiny (less than 1cm) and growing in the cracks on the side of the pavement during my morning walk with the dogs. Easily missed, but offering endless beauty & form if you stop long enough to appreciate them.
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📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
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📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
October 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
All these blooms are tiny (less than 1cm) and growing in the cracks on the side of the pavement during my morning walk with the dogs. Easily missed, but offering endless beauty & form if you stop long enough to appreciate them.
🌱 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🪴 ☆ 🌿
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
🌱 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🪴 ☆ 🌿
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
Time for Saturday morning hot stone spa + nap time. ♨️🐕🌞
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
October 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Time for Saturday morning hot stone spa + nap time. ♨️🐕🌞
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
📍 Khao Tao, Thailand
Sure thing. My friends here usually annoyed at my never ending need to identify strange species lol. Here are my two bulbophyllums in my garden here in Thailand:
B. crassipes
B. vaginatum (arguably a fairly pitiful bloom, but still)
B. crassipes
B. vaginatum (arguably a fairly pitiful bloom, but still)
October 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Sure thing. My friends here usually annoyed at my never ending need to identify strange species lol. Here are my two bulbophyllums in my garden here in Thailand:
B. crassipes
B. vaginatum (arguably a fairly pitiful bloom, but still)
B. crassipes
B. vaginatum (arguably a fairly pitiful bloom, but still)
in Honk Kong too. 😱
September 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
in Honk Kong too. 😱
I love this! Have always wondered about a direct comparison of Thailand's size (where I live) with American states.
August 31, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I love this! Have always wondered about a direct comparison of Thailand's size (where I live) with American states.
Portion of the conservatory from William Henry Vanderbilt's long ago demolished Fifth Avenue Triple Palace in New York City, as seen in 1883.
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Gilded Age greenery, at its finest.
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Gilded Age greenery, at its finest.
August 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Portion of the conservatory from William Henry Vanderbilt's long ago demolished Fifth Avenue Triple Palace in New York City, as seen in 1883.
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Gilded Age greenery, at its finest.
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Gilded Age greenery, at its finest.
From 9 years earlier in a different era, but she always looks good in red & black. ❤️👑🖤
August 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
From 9 years earlier in a different era, but she always looks good in red & black. ❤️👑🖤
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
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📍Khao Tao, Thailand
Watch this space early September!
Finlayson's Cymbidium
Cymbidium finlaysonianum
กะเรกะร่อนปากเป๊ด
☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🪴 ☆
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
August 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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
Watch this space early September!
Finlayson's Cymbidium
Cymbidium finlaysonianum
กะเรกะร่อนปากเป๊ด
☆ 🌱 ☆ 🌿 ☆ 🌴 ☆ 🪴 ☆
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
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.
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Alocasia macrorrhizos
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
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Alocasia macrorrhizos
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
August 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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.
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Alocasia macrorrhizos
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
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Alocasia macrorrhizos
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
I got some from a friend and before I could find a good place for it, it started to climb my wall so I made a bamboo trellace for it, which it has taken over now but here are some shots when it was young and smallish.
August 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I got some from a friend and before I could find a good place for it, it started to climb my wall so I made a bamboo trellace for it, which it has taken over now but here are some shots when it was young and smallish.
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. 🇻🇳 📷
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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. 🇻🇳 📷
Deep in a rubber plantation, hunting for peacock feathers.
Life ain't bad. 🌳🦚🌳
📍 Wang Pong, Thailand
Life ain't bad. 🌳🦚🌳
📍 Wang Pong, Thailand
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Deep in a rubber plantation, hunting for peacock feathers.
Life ain't bad. 🌳🦚🌳
📍 Wang Pong, Thailand
Life ain't bad. 🌳🦚🌳
📍 Wang Pong, Thailand
Splashes of color are important though. The brighter and bolder, the better. 💛🧡❤️
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Splashes of color are important though. The brighter and bolder, the better. 💛🧡❤️
Having every imaginable shade of green is required. Thems the rules.
🌴🌿🪴🌱💚🌱🪴🌿🌴
#MonsoonSeason
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
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#MonsoonSeason
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
July 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Having every imaginable shade of green is required. Thems the rules.
🌴🌿🪴🌱💚🌱🪴🌿🌴
#MonsoonSeason
📍Khao Tao, Thailand
🌴🌿🪴🌱💚🌱🪴🌿🌴
#MonsoonSeason
📍Khao Tao, Thailand