Today as I was seated next to my concrete ponds watching the water lily buds open, I was reminded of Monet. I wonder if he would go to his ponds with his paint brush in hand anxiously waiting for the water lilies to bloom so he could capture their beauty in a portrait? I can just see him sitting behind his easel wearing his stained painters smock, smiling as the lilies poked their buds above the water.

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How many times did he stand on that bridge and let his imagination run wild in his sanctuary of solitude and water lilies.