Pond Lily

Photograph by HA!

Eleven months a year, a dirty pond with slimy waters in my front garden. 

Then once a year nature gives us this, a water lily or Nymphaea to use its scientific name.

(a word which actually means water lily in Greek  and originates from the Nymphs in Greek Mythology and also is the modern greek word for bride).

Water lilies are associated with rebirth and optimism and also fertility , sexuality and creation.

Its easy to see why the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans revered it so much.

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