After several posts about fish, I get back to flowers, and the lotuses on the balcony. I showed them last on March 9th, shortly before I went to Canada, but I kept in touch and was happy to be told that there had been yet another blossom in the big pond. Janaki sent me a picture of the double-petalled lotus that had bloomed in the week after I went, and I show that first.

By the time I got back, it had gone. But when I went up the morning after my late night return, on March 24th, there was a bud in the other pond, and the next morning it had begun to bloom. I show it then, and again in full bloom the next day, and then on the following day when a bud had emerged by its side.

That was in the first stages of blossoming early morning on April 2nd, and I show it in full flower on the 4th.