From Start To Finish.....Awesome...

Finally the weekend arrived, that I got to enjoy the opening of not one....but two Daturas, at the lake.

They are also called Thornapple or Nightshade...but i just call them Daturas....and I love them...

The picture below is how the bud first looks....

Then it becomes a ripply one that grows out of this one....and then the big "TA DA" moment arrives..


I captured all of these last evening on the deck...after we returned from the local restaurant with my daughter and son-in-law for a lovely fish dinner....Lola came out for the day as well...but she stayed behind at the cottage, and had a nice nap on the sunporch....such a good girl!!

                   The whole process of opening up....took about 1 1/2 hours...we
                                  stayed on the deck for the entire process...our neighbour
                                  Gus joined us for a beer!!! or two...tee hee hee...

I got this shot this morning...we had a bit of rain from about Dawn onwards...after being awoken at 3am, by a huge crash...we both jumped out of bed...went into the hallway....looked around  [very attractive in the middle of the night!] an old painting had fallen and hit the croquet set!!!! What a lot of noise for that!!!!

Aren't they breathtaking with the water droplets on them???

Here they are taking  Lola for a short
walk....before heading home...

We certainly had a lovely visit...
and a delicious dinner..and best of all...nobody had  to cook or clean up....tee hee hee....just down 
to the deck to watch the Datura....lovely...



Hope you all had a great weekend...
Raining a bit right now...

Enjoy the rest of your evening...   

                                               Cheers!             :o)
                                            linda