There is a Thai restaurant in Hot Springs that has a lotus garden and I always check it out when we pass by. If I'm lucky, I can catch them when they are in bloom.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam