I Found A New Spot (could this be a new series?)

I found a new spot.  I could not call it a hiking spot, but a sanctuary.  I always have known this spot existed.   There are some undercurrents in the pond and the ice that forms on the top is weak in the winter. 

A local who retired from his job proposed to the town that it be transformed into a sort of sanctuary, or park.  There are some rare trees at this park

In the past, it would be stocked by fish once each year for a fishing derby. Otherwise it had been  stagnant. 

I got out of the van and there I saw LOADS of beautiful, smartly-designed garden plots, granite seating, blossoming trees, butterflies and dragonflies, water lilies out on the pond, and HEALTH.  I was amazed! For me this means a new sanctuary, a place I can go to contemplate, write poetry (finally!) and of course take some photographs.

The water lilies are beautiful, there are yellow and white ones, and I even waded into the muck to get a few photographs...

No wonder so many artists have been driven to paint waterlilies!  They are so wonderful.  There were frogs chirping along the pond edges--they saw me before I could see them and hopped into the water where I could not see them.  There is so much life in this pond, whereas before it seemed to be a dark space of desertion.  I am so inspired.

I might have played with this photograph above a bit too much...in my editing program it is amazing, but maybe against this white background there can be no justice.  On a larger scale, you can see reflections of the sky and the tiny ripples which form as a result of the petals pressing themselves against the surface of the water.  Just exquisite!

There is Bee Balm, Echinacea, Lavendar....I could go on.  Butterfly and hummingbird heaven!