Orchid Show 2025

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A new Orchid Show at Chicago Botanic Garden just opened, and my friend Lena and I do it every year, no matter how busy we are. Since things will become hectic in just a week, we decided to go on the very first day of the show, which was yesterday (not counting the opening night).

As always, we took my mom there, and as always, Lena invited one of her closest friends from Palatine, so we were all together as our usual group. We liked the show, although Lena and I both felt there was a little bit “less of everything” than the previous year. Fewer plants and less variety. Still, there was plenty to admire, and too many photos taken:)

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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