I had been wanting to go up to the Heron Park for several months. For a long time all parks in Illinois was closed. Then with the heat I was avoiding getting Roger out in it.
But this week has been a week of lovely temps and lovely breezes so we drove up there a couple days ago. I was so glad to see all the Lotus still blooming.
The bad side of all these, they are so tall and so many, I did not see one Great Blue Heron nor any of the swans or egrets we normally see up there.
For me, this is even better than the Heron. We have a lot of them around here, but NO Lotus.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers! But I'm sorry you didn't get to see any birds.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised by how many different lotus and water lily plants I see... Nice shots.
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteOh, I am sure the birds were there, enjoying the beautiful camo! YAM xx
Wow! That's quite a show of flowers. This year has been particularly difficult to get out and about as one would wish.
ReplyDeletea gorgeous sight of the teeming pads and lot
ReplyDeleteI love this :)
Have a safe weekend Rose :)
Deviuses and lovely capture of the closeup images too! Fabulous !!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteBeautiful views of Heron park. The flowers are lovely.
Enjoy your day!
Too bad about not seeing any great blue heron but the lotus blossoms are beautiful
ReplyDeleteAll so gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful lotus flowers. The lotus flowers we have here are the pink ones.
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful these look. They certainly are healthy this year.
ReplyDeleteAren't you fortunate to have such beauty a car ride away!I love the lotus flower photo!💖
ReplyDeleteWe don't have these lovely lotus plants, just water lilies. Glad you had some nice temps and got to go out. We are trying to get away to the mountains and cooler temps starting tomorrow, so I will not be able to comment for a few days.
ReplyDeleteI know that you missed seeing the herons in the bird but to me seeing all these gorgeous water lilies and plants are amazing to me because I've never seen anything like it. I can walk out my door and see those birds you were looking for but we don't have anything like this. Simply gorgeous
ReplyDeleteThe blossoms were looking very good. Too bad your normal birds were missing.
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are beautiful .
ReplyDeleteWow so many and look so pretty. Will the plants be thinned out?
ReplyDeletethey are thick and tall - most of the lilies around here have flat pads that float on the water with blooms skimming just above the surface.
ReplyDeleteThey are so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWow! That is a huge pond of filled with lotus plants. A fabulous image! This is really lovely!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty
ReplyDeleteMB
It certainly has not been easy to get out and about this year has it.
ReplyDeleteI'm so pleased you were recently able to, I enjoyed seeing these photographs.
All the best Jan