Lotus flower restaurant.

In rural Sichuan province we eat a  farm to table lunch. Boiled lotus seed, fried and boiled and pickled lotus root. Lotus petals battered and fried. Lotus leaf omelette. All delicious!  The cicadas are roaring and the guests are happy this hot afternoon. I sit on a bench over the water. Honey bees are at what looks like purple flowering pickerelweed. Fuschia bougainville overhang ponds of enormous lotus leaves.  Pink petals and buds rise waving in this magical place.