Susie’s Secret Garden
Yesterday morning at about 9:00 a.m., as the night water lily at left was closing, the day water lily at right had just fully opened. Each bloom opens and closes with the cycle of day and night for about three days. There’s a nontoxic black dye in the water for algae control, it really sets off the colors of the blooms and leaves. The variegated leaves belong to the day lily, and the solid reddish to the night. I mixed up the varieties in the same pots this year so they’d come up close together like this. I call it pond art.
Tending my ponds is one of my survival techniques for dealing with my Mulitple Chemical Sensitivity. Even when recovering from an exposure, when I get outside and putter with the ponds– prune plants, feed the fish, change the water– I feel so much better about life and my place in it. I hope you, too, have an activity in your life that helps you stay connected to nature and at peace with yourself and the world. xoxo
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