The Lotus and Water Lily Festival is an annual event at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, a national park in Washington, D.C. We usually go earlier to the four-week affair but were unable to this year due to thunderstorms one weekend and excessively hot temperatures and unbelievable humidity another. By the time we finally got there, a lot of the lotuses had already bloomed, but there were still many on display, along with water lilies, egrets, butterflies and dragonflies. All in all, it was time well spent.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by PBase are decidedly unsharp.

The ravages of old age, posted earlier: