The Gardens are heading for a long winter nap, as you can see in the photo below, the ponds are bare of the summer greens and colors of the waterlilies and lotus (the lotus vegetation is harvested by hand and removed from the ponds, otherwise the ponds would quickly get too cluttered and hamper future growth and the colorful display of flowers)<\/p>\n
![\"Kenilworth](\"https:\/\/john-michael.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ponds.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/john-michael.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/monet-water-lilies-notebook.jpg\")
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nMonet Water Lilies Notebook<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
Monet Water Lilies Notebook<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nexcept for the tropical waterlily – Victoria (those lilypads reach up to 8 feet in diameter!).\u00a0 The explosion of white when it first blooms makes a rapid transformation to nearly red over the typical three days that this bloom lasts.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Victoria](\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_SaCOIkPp9UI\/SPaljYLYhSI\/AAAAAAAAAOA\/xCGKiQKW3iA\/s320\/victoria.jpg\")
\nThe park hosts a great variety of animals, from beavers to herons, snakes, and frogs.\u00a0 The spring and summer months feature colorful dragonflies. Below is a “flock” of turtles out in the sun trying to overcome the cooling of the ponds…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/john-michael.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Turtles-on-a-log.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA big splash of purple from one of the waterlilies …<\/div>\n\n![\"Kenilworth](\"https:\/\/john-michael.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/purple-waterlily.jpg\")
<\/div>\n\nWait ’til you see this wonderful place…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nBUY THE BOOK<\/a><\/h2>\nImages of America \u2013 Fort Myer is a pictorial chronicle of the first one hundred years of history containing over two hundred photographs, maps, and images. \u00a0Beginning in the 1860s and carrying through the 1960s it provides a view![\"images](\"https:\/\/historic-fortmyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FORT-MYER-front-cover-cropp-210x300.gif\")
\u00a0of what was over time.<\/p>\n
An autographed copy of the book can be purchased at\u00a0BUY\u00a0<\/a>TH<\/a>E BOOK<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
except for the tropical waterlily – Victoria (those lilypads reach up to 8 feet in diameter!).\u00a0 The explosion of white when it first blooms makes a rapid transformation to nearly red over the typical three days that this bloom lasts.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\nThe park hosts a great variety of animals, from beavers to herons, snakes, and frogs.\u00a0 The spring and summer months feature colorful dragonflies. Below is a “flock” of turtles out in the sun trying to overcome the cooling of the ponds…<\/div>\n
\nThe park hosts a great variety of animals, from beavers to herons, snakes, and frogs.\u00a0 The spring and summer months feature colorful dragonflies. Below is a “flock” of turtles out in the sun trying to overcome the cooling of the ponds…<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A big splash of purple from one of the waterlilies …<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n\n
Wait ’til you see this wonderful place…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\nBUY THE BOOK<\/a><\/h2>\n
BUY THE BOOK<\/a><\/h2>\nImages of America \u2013 Fort Myer is a pictorial chronicle of the first one hundred years of history containing over two hundred photographs, maps, and images. \u00a0Beginning in the 1860s and carrying through the 1960s it provides a view\u00a0of what was over time.<\/p>\n
An autographed copy of the book can be purchased at\u00a0BUY\u00a0<\/a>TH<\/a>E BOOK<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u00a0of what was over time.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.omahasteaks.com\/gifs\/big\/cmb66820.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n