Thursday Challenge—"empty"

Not much going on in the lily ponds
on a cold wet winter day.

(But this is what they'll look 
like in 5 or 6 months.)
Well worth the wait, I believe.

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Coming out

No, these are not proudly gay goldfish
(although hey, who knows?).  I do know they've
 been hibernating all winter in the lily pond
at the Brooklyn Botanic.  And I think they must
come out of hibernation in stages (?); at this point
they were just kind of floating in place.