Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Another flower surprise !

This afternoon as I headed out the door to meet a friend for lunch, I stopped to check out the baby fish in the large container pond in our back yard. An aquarium customer of my husband's (who has a large koi pond) gave him a water lily plant at the beginning of the summer, and to my surprise there was a beautiful bloom there today!


Gregg hadn't noticed it when he fed the fish this morning. I texted him this picture and he was surprised. Somehow in his pre-work hurry he had missed it.

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  1. Nature can give us some magical surprises if we just open our eyes.
    (Apologies to any blind visitors to Sparrow Tree Journal).

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  2. I used to have a fish pond here (don't ask), and it would surprise us in exactly the same way. Fabulous flowers.

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  3. Maybe the bloom wasn't open yet when Gregg fed the fish? It's beautiful!

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    1. I think that might have been the case. He's too observant to miss something so pretty!

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  4. True to your profile; you're "capturing the beautiful moments of an ordinary life". X
    Jennifer, have you had blood tests to check your thyroid function?
    Greetings Maria xx

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    1. I had a thyroid check a couple of years ago. I'm happy to report that this week I'm feeling much better.

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    2. I'm happy to hear this, Jennifer :) xx

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  5. That's so cool! I'm sure its a normal size but it looks ginormous in your pic :-)

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    1. Thank you...it's about the size of a man's fist.

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  6. That's beautiful. We had a peony poppy suddenly appear yesterday in the herb garden. I pointed it out to Paul and as I touched it the flower completely disintegrated and all the petals fell off!

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    1. I'm not sure what a peony poppy is, but it sounds beautiful!

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