You know what happens when one photographer posts a picture of something that doesn’t, last too long–we all go to shoot it.

That’s what happened with the Lotus located on the grounds of the Vedanta Society  Sacramento in Sacramento. They were so nice to let us go to their pond and shoot these beautiful flowers. I had never seen lotus in person. They are stunning.

We were back yesterday to check on whether the hyacinths were in the pond, and we found the seed pods that were left from the lotus. We also found some hyacinths, but that will be for another post.

So please enjoy these beauties. I’m so glad one photographer shared her find.

I’m not sure whether all lotus are pink, but these were!

I tried to capture them in different ways.

I came up from underneath this one.

This one is opening up and starting to drop petals.

The light was changing fast on this one.

Shot from a distance.

The bridge going over the pond.

Not a lotus!

Again, the whole flower.

Another “Not a lotus,” but pretty.

The lotus seed pod captured a couple of weeks after the other images were taken.