"It took me some time to understand my water lilies…," wrote Claude Monet. "I cultivated them with no thought of painting them… One does not fully appreciate a landscape in one day… And then, suddenly ...

I frequently find myself thinking about jumping into a pond in the middle of a hot summer afternoon. Pools of dark water that hide secrets from us are very alluring when the temperature rises, and the ...

It is pound for pound the greatest test of strength on water... VANESSA CALLAHAN: We first tried testing how much weight our water lily could hold several years ago, and we had heard about people ...