Budding lotus flowers

A red flower on a backdrop of greenery

  It is really like what was described in the poem: “Lotus leaves are like green jade, and lotus flowers under the sun are especially red". Heavy rains drove away the recent hot days without any hesitation. With cool breeze, it rarely turned out sunny near the West Lake in the season of plum rains.

  In May and June every year, the first lotus in the West Lake always attracted a great many photographers. However, some boaters told the reporter, some lotus flowers were suffering from the heavy rains in recent two days.

  But on June 14, according to some netizens, near Jixian Pavillion there appeared several buds. a brightly colored bud stands out in the lotus pond, as if making promises to all tourists: lotus flowers in the West Lake will fully blossom this year.