News — Blue

For many years I had a longing to find Blue Lotus. The desire to see this flower grew until finally, living on the Big Island, I stumbled upon it growing in a pond, surrounded by flowering Mgambo trees. Inhaling their fragrance is other-worldly; time slowed down; I felt transported. One of the reasons that it felt so difficult to locate Blue Lotus- which I assumed only grew in Egypt- is that, while it is called a lotus in Egypt, it is actually a water lily: Nymphaea caerula. 

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