It is summer time and that means that the lotus flower is in season. They really are beautiful in an legenday way and of course Lakshmi is known as Padmavati; she who emerged from a lotus. So they are the perfect flower for our extended Lakshmi Yagya series.
This is also the season for a particularly fragrant variety of jasmine flower. They are larger than usual, very round, white, and the fragrance sticks around for hours.
By the end of the pujas, there was a mountain of lotus petals!
