Do you like orchids?

Orchids come in all shapes, sizes and colours. This pretty flower is the Chloraea alpine and in Argentina grows from Neuquen southwards to Santa Cruz. One of the many beautiful flowers to be found in the Patagonia Steppe. Seems I am not the only admirer – two foraging beetles will agree.

[Lago Rosales, San Martin de Los Andes, Argentina]

BTW, the quote is from Raymond Chandler's's novel The Big Sleep:

General Sternwood: Do you like orchids?
Philip Marlowe: Not particularly.
General Sternwood: Ugh. Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.