Water-lilies have gone crazy and snakes have a feast

I spent the last few days working a lounging in my garden in the country. That is my place to strengthen my muscles and to try gardening even though I really don't have green fingers. That's just my place to rest. There is a small pond in the middle of the garden, a place full of water life and also with two big water-lilies. They both seem to go crazy. Instead of spreading their leaves all over the surface they are suddenly growing up. One of them has created something like a hill of hundreds of leaves about one meter high. The downside is that the blooms can't find their place in the sun so they are invisible practically. On the other side this green hill is full of frogs hunting for flies and mosquitos. And there also are two or three grass-snakes hunting for frogs, keeping the nature in balance. Watching them sneaking, coming closer and closer to the frogs inconspicuously and then grabbing them in a second is a bit creepy but who has seen someting like that ńot only on the screen. I witnessed this performance twice, so I was lucky because one grass-snake only needs one frog in a week. I guess I'm lucky twice because these snakes are harmless and moreover they mostly live in or near the pond. As I only walk barefoot on the grass it wouldn't be a nice experience to step on it.