Reflection

 Kayser Lily Pool, Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Great Blue Heron

One of two blue herons, INTERLUDE, by Gary Price is the centerpiece of the Cochran Water Wall at the Birmingham Botanical Garden's Kayser Lily Pool. It draws me in every visit. 

Consider the Lily

Water lilies at the Kayser Lily Pool, Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Always a good idea!

WInter Pad

Hopefully the Kayser Lily Pool at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens will have be in bloom again soon.  I rather liked the winter look of the lil pads though.

Patience....

required when working with drangonflies. They're a flighty bunch!

Kayser Lily Pool

Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Look!!!

Yesterday I joined some of my Samford After Sundown students for a little field trip. We gathered late in the afternoon at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and stopped first at the Kayser Lily Pool.  We weren't disappointed. The blossoms were gorgeous,  and we had a few dragonflies that performed nicely. After a very hot and humid hour of shooting, as we decided we'd have enough, I  decided to take one last look at the lily pool and found these adorable children looking for goldfish.

Monsieur Monet...

Birmingham Botanical Gardens - Kayser lily pool

would approve!

Some Days...

you just get lucky!

Kayser Lily Pool - Birmingham Botanical Gardens

"Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly 

Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky." 

                                                               Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon