I couldn’t resist posting this, a combination of Ailsa’s Travel Theme with this week’s Photo Challenge – a trough of purple water lilies I saw at Gallery Cafe, Colombo, several years ago.
The Wanderlust Gene
An inherited itch to wander …
The Wanderlust Gene 
Wonderful! More purple.
Too much purple is never enough 🙂
This is just beautiful; looks like a painting.
The hand-hewn stone is such a tactile thing, isn’t it?
excellent, you are unstoppable today, go girl!!!
Shame I didn’t answer my outstanding comments instead of partying on posting purple flowers! I’m only now getting to the inbox and I was only away for a couple of days – I don’t know how my schedule got so out of whack!
Really beautiful and purple too!
Very striking!
I was stunned when I saw them … such profligacy, such artless beauty with the delicacy of the flowers against the rough-hewn stone.
Gorgeous! Love the purple bursting from the earthy looking stone container.
Yes! And in such profusion.
A lovely purple/flower image – what an interesting place to find lilies!
Well, The Gallery Cafe is Colombo’s ‘temple of style’ so not so surprising really to see them displayed there in this gorgeous profusion 🙂
Wonderful textures.
Yes – the stone so hard, rough and grainy, the damp, satiny lilies … Thank you David.
very lovely
Thank you Polly. So glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
Lovely. I’m such a sucker for purple flowers. If I could grow a garden, it’ll be full of them.
Very magisterial it would be 🙂
Oh how lovely, you’re having a field day with flowers this week! xxx
It was all your fault, Ailsa 🙂 Then we had ‘growth’ this week, so my blog is full of flowers once again. As it should be 🙂
There’s nothing wrong with that! Bring on the flowers, I say! 🙂
Me too, but there have been a lot of flowers the past ten days. 🙂
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The trough is irresitable, Lovvve it 🙂
Me too – I get a bit avaricious when I see things like that … 🙂
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