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3 Beeutiful Things: The North American Lotus

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Margaret Nock on Jul, 31, 2011 at 5:35 PM

Over the weekend, we took a day trip over to Mount Harmon Plantation to see the rare and beautiful lotus native to North America at their annual Lotus Blossom Festival. Enjoy the beauty and grace of this valuable food source and potent life symbol for Native Americans...

The North American Lotus (Nelumbo lutea)

North American Lotus

A perennial beauty ...

North American Lotus

with leaves and flowers gracefully bobbing about above the water and blowing in the gentle breeze...

North American Lotus

growing in ponds, slow streams and lakes in the Eastern and Central U.S.

Remember to take time to discover the rare and wonderful in your life this week.

Margaret

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Those are awesome! We used to have a Lotus Festival every year at Echo Park Lake (in Los Angeles). Legend had it that the lotus there were planted by Amy Semple McPherson, whose temple is across the street, and who has plenty of legends of her own. A few years ago all the lotus mysteriously died off, and the locals are desolate. And it seems, in all those years, no one collected any of the lotus seeds. There are legends about those, too, and how long a lotus seed can last (thousands of years).

Eleanor Burian-Mohr on Jul, 31 at 5:38 PM

Thank you so much for sharing all of these beautiful flowers with us. These water flower are so pretty it almost wants you to come and enjoy the beauty around them. I wonder if there is any frogs around that water to smell these beautiful flowers and see what they are like.

Thanks for coming by and sharing this with us................
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Donna De Graw on Jul, 31 at 5:43 PM

Thanks so much for mentioning EchoPark Lake, Eleanor. I used to live on the Central Coast in CA but have made many trips to your area and remember hearing about the Lotus and McPherson, actually. It's a small lotus world! So many legends, so little time to explore them. We also loved the Monarchs migrating through ArroyoGrande and LosOsos,

Thanks Donna - so glad you're inspired by the lotus. The frogs usually hang out around the mud bank and the shallow water, alothough I'm sure they check out the blooms when we're not looking. :)

Margaret Nock on Aug, 01 at 6:26 AM