Water Lilies

As Benjamin and I strolled around Matheson Lake last Sunday we both agreed that water lilies are challenging to photograph as they are often kind of 'messy' looking. This is one a took of them which I quite like in the end. - Fern

Water Lilies

French impressionist Claude Monet painted about 250 canvases of Water Lilies. It's easy to see why. These were photographed on the grounds of the Gatsby Mansion on Belleville Street.

Water Lilies - Abkhazi Garden

My brother and my daughter and I have a ritual annual luncheon every spring at the Abkhazi Garden here in Victoria. The Abkhazi Garden is small but exquisite and well worth an hour's stroll around before lunch at the former residence of Georgian Prince Nicholas Abkhazi and his wife, Peggy Pemberton Carter, whose labour of love the garden was. For me it has most of the beauty of the Butchart Gardens without the Disneyland atmosphere and crowds. The menu is limited to a few choice items but they are invariably beautifully prepared and served.

Water Lilies

I cannot help but take lots of pictures of these lovely water plants, there is a certain romance about them somehow. No wonder Claude Monet dedicated himself to painting them. - Fern