The divine sunlight of summer has just arrived to illuminate this world brilliantly. The gray, overcast skies of the rainy season, which had persisted relentlessly, have finally lost their quiet yet formidable influence. Before our very eyes, they are swiftly ceding their dominance to the vivid, white clouds and the bright blue sky.
The colorful Ajisai (hydrangea) flowers that dominated the rainy landscape have fulfilled their reproductive duty and are gradually withering away, disappearing one after another.
Bathed in the brilliant light of midsummer, a variety of living things are emerging successively, beginning to receive the precious benefits of the sun, vividly indicating the liveliness of this shining season.
Under the deep, azure sky, the dignified lotus flowers, which are typical flowers of high summer in Kamakura, have started blooming one by one as if to be inspired by the majestic light and heat of summer.
I found a small, beautiful lotus flower whose mystical shape reminded me of "the flower of life" in Western culture. The flower of life is said to be one of the holy geometric figures that illustrates the essential structure of the universe, the cycle of life, and the interconnectedness of all things.
The lotus flower is the Eastern sacred flower that symbolizes spiritual growth, enlightenment, and rebirth, rising from the mud to purity in this universe.
Such a mystical resemblance between them implied the wonders of the universe and life in a particularly beautiful way.
