As suggested by Melissa, of Melissa’s Home School, our Fun Friday Blogging for Fun group started an A to Z meme. Today’s topic is the letter K.
Foreword: I am still nursing a cold, and hope to visit your blogs later.

This is the  Koi Pond at the Descanso Gardens.

Luiz Santilli, Denise Gullickson, Laerte Pupo, Valkyrien
Our gracious hosts
Camellias often bloom during the cool season. They start as early as October and last through March or early spring. This flower was named after a Jesuit missionary, George Kamel, who traveled to Asia and studied the flora of the Philippines.

The foliage of the camellia [...]

Hosted by Susan @ A Southern Daydreamer
TREES
by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in [...]