I forgot my phone at the brewery, but John was kind enough to let me borrow his.
I wanted to take a picture of my pond. When I went outside I saw that there was another water lily -- score-- just what I wanted to take a picture of.
Ok - so really I was planning on taking a photo of the turtles but they were hiding. The fish have been hiding too - probably because that big heron was checking out the fish buffet the other night. I heard it squawking when we came home from work.
Our friend gave us this water lily. He had lots of raccoons and they kept chomping it up. Usually my turtles eat them too, but I put it up in the top section on the pond so it has bloomed quite a few times this summer.
Such beautiful flowers. And pretty leaves. The bright green leaves are actually some of the giant water hyacinths that are in the middle section of the pond. I need to give them a serious trim as they are huge and expanding far beyond the pond section they are in.
But for today we will just enjoy the lovely yellow orange water lily.
