fading beauty
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lily pond
looking from north
white temperate lily
lotus mayhem
from below
full bloom
another stage begins
see how tall they are?
More visitors arrive today, so a quick post following on from yesterday’s. Luxuriate in these rich colours and profuse flowers! The lotus is peaking, Stuart has done two beautiful paintings of them for his next exhibition South-East North-West opening at Gallery Bodalla on 23rd January.
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BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS!
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
thanks Francine, sending you a little summer colour, what a beautiful world we enjoy 🙂
stunning!
it is Cindy, the lotus is at it’s peak right now, but we love it through all the stages 🙂
Just gorgeous photos…a nice end to my week.
let’s just sit on the benches by the lily pond for ten minutes or so Charles, watching the dragonflies and listening to the cicadas and frogs …. 🙂
Breathtaking lotus and the crinum too 🙂
things are growing so well after plentiful rain … it was drought for the first 11 years we were here so we still love seeing full dams and ponds!
These are such beautiful photos, bursting with life and it’s generous abundance.
thank you GM, no doubt you are enjoying seeing the colour and life of our summer weather … the lotus flowers are a bit outrageous, but we can all learn from that!
So gorgeous, Christine. 🙂
thanks ad, we are loving it …. it all passes like everything else 🙂
What a treat they are! The dam’s just perfect for them and what a focal point it makes in the garden. I love it! And I particularly like the pristine temperate white – it’s like a perfect white camellia. Just gorgeous. Have a lovely day with your friends Christine.
PS Happy New Year. 🙂
and you too M, your first new year in Oz for a while! …. and you are right, that white is always perfect, and so well behaved 🙂
A star in every way!
just listening to the Hush Collection, the track “The Stars Above Us All” sublime music by Matthew Hindson, played by the TSO …
I’d probably prefer true classical, but I love the idea of music being used to calm and sustain those in distress, or under stress, and think it’s great the TSO’s recorded these works. Thanks for telling me about it, Christine.
did you listen to that track?? my favourite track is the Elena Kats-Chernin one … http://vimeo.com/77475800 … I love this new music … my eldest son studied music composition, but ended up an academic … fortunately his son is also musical …
Wow these lilies are beautiful. Happy new year to you
you too Scrapy Do, hope you NZ summer is kind and not too hot or cold … our relatives in Dunedin have been freezing!
We had some real hot days before Christmas. Now it is windy, rainy and much cooler.
same here I must admit .. 20 degrees and possible showers!
🙂
Great photos and thanks for the color, up here we are very white
yes, it looks as though you are expecting freezing cold air from the North Pole, an ‘epic cold air outbreak’ so bundle up and stay warm … so glad you enjoyed the colour 🙂
these are beautiful! the buds are thickening on various branches here, but they are definitely bare. which reminds me that i must check for where the snowdrops usually bloom, and see if they are showing any signs of reappearing yet. in the meantime, it is refreshing to see these cheerful blossoms. thanks for sharing.
it seems such a mystery that harsh conditions cause the plants to withdraw so totally … then they spring into life again as warmth returns … are you experiencing any of the big cold snap where you are Chris?
good to see the colours of the lotus flowers Christine, nothing beats their sheer exuberance!
Excellent lotus pics! 🙂
“And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light,
And they were behind us, reflected in the pool.” — T.S. Eliot
excellent quote thank you Tom!
The lotus and water lilies are loving this hot humid weather. Our pond has the most flowering at one time. They are so beautiful
how wonderful … we are lucky aren’t we!
We have just had a storm and lots of RAIN….No need to water the garden this afternoon.
we have seen some black clouds but had no rain now for a few days, in fact it has been gorgeous beach weather fortunately as the Canberra family are all here for 3 days … glad you had more rain, the water lilies will love it!
The weather here has actually been TOO hot even for the beach lots of sun stroke happening. Thankfully it is a bit cooler tonight after the rain.
scary isn’t it? very hot here today too, but swimming was gorgeous earlier 🙂
I think you meant “Damn”. In case it matters to you…as it’s the title and all.
Too beautiful, Christine! Love lotus…
ciao dolce Cristina sempre nel mio cuore