Kenilworth a Week Later

What a difference a week makes! The secondary grassy paths through the ponds were mostly dry and passable. The hardy water lilies were more in evidence.

There were many more visitors, most with easels for painting en plein air and others with tripods for serious photography. The feeling was Monet at Giverny.

Here the blue spikes of pickerelweed frame white hardy water lilies.









More lotus were in bloom but this double stood out because it was intensely, deeply pink.

This week we viewed the marsh at low tide. All of a sudden there was an indigo bunting, but he was very shy, a little flighty and this was as close as Bill could get.

This bird is so brilliantly blue that it takes your breathe away and your immediate thought is why isn't this bird home in the jungles of Brazil. In fact, it's very much at home along the eastern coast.

Volunteers working near the entrance to the gardens.