Next weekend is the 60th annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show, just up the road a few miles from my condo del cielo. This show — if you were paying attention — was made nominally famous by the movie Adaptation, starring Nicholas Cage and Nicholas Cage. I liked that movie very much, except that I thought Meryl Streep was miscast. It was probably the most ill-fitting role for her since Bridges of Madison County. Anyway, the flowers will be here. You can come and search that strange building at the fairgrounds for your Ghost Orchid, mumbling “my precious.”