Water Lily Rainbow

Finally, I found some more colors that just begged to be photographed this week. A virtual rainbow of shades and hues. I visit these special spots often in search of new life emerging from the water. Each flower is unique...special.

"I think that the best kind of change is the change 

that comes from the inside and begins it's way out until 

it emerges on the  outside; 

a change that is born underneath 

then continues and spreads 

until it has reached the surface. 

That's a true change. A powerful change. 

And I have found that while we are emerging, 

changing into something glorious; 

it is actually us becoming who we really are. 

A water lily is born underneath the water, 

inside the soil at the bottom of the river or lake. 

And the water lily has always been a water lily 

for that whole time that it was 

sprouting out of the wet soil, 

reaching up through the dark water towards the sunlight, 

stretching and grasping for the surface; 

where it then buds and blooms on the 

outside in the sunshine. 

It doesn't bud and bloom on the surface 

and the try to reach down below into the soil."

~C. JoyBell C.