tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40329096191296565472024-03-13T09:28:11.993+05:30Evergreen TreeEver Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-58327708999376332102022-06-25T21:23:00.005+05:302022-06-25T21:32:01.299+05:30Asia’s Cleanest Village @ Mawlynnong <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='401' height='398' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyQHJlxYkM-kN2wy18V7024EN9u5egDNf162Hf9w1y93Otz8q62MUVTCiYYNwpr-et4djMyreUYTN6d90Px_Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Glimpse of God’s own Garden </div><div style="text-align: center;">Shillong, Meghalaya a</div><p></p>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-89728658908356007372021-08-12T16:54:00.003+05:302021-08-12T16:55:21.629+05:30Sawan ke Jhoole<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; clear: both; font-size: 33px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; clear: both; font-size: 33px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; clear: both; font-size: 33px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4JtWcTbzxHQ/YRT_o3Ph_DI/AAAAAAAALno/QCu1kfLJ5QUWPC_xCsn0zcm3qz2wIeivACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/082F6805-E98A-49AE-849D-244714708C97.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4JtWcTbzxHQ/YRT_o3Ph_DI/AAAAAAAALno/QCu1kfLJ5QUWPC_xCsn0zcm3qz2wIeivACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/082F6805-E98A-49AE-849D-244714708C97.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; clear: both; font-size: 33px; text-align: center;">Sawan ke Jhoole…</div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; clear: both; font-size: 33px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 33px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Come Monsoon (Sawan), the festive season of August, this yester-years make-shift wooden - rope Jhoola / Swing dangling from a robust & Sturdy branch of a Mango Tree is such a welcoming sight, reminiscent of our childhood days, when as kids we could spend hours and hours playing on the swing. Not just play, but I also remember reading n studying nestled on this big wooden swing (which could comfortably accommodate 4 kids) in our Verandah. Those were some carefree days… </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 33px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 33px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Anyways, Keep on Swinging High n Keep that Child in you active n alive. Happy Hariyali Teej! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 33px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 33px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PTAK1RPsx24/YRT_hMOyq9I/AAAAAAAALng/fC4I24t2FNM4Xv53Qz1-gkn3GYVk1gYLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s608/4A1E31FF-4280-485E-B9F2-6C7A25CAB764.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="608" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PTAK1RPsx24/YRT_hMOyq9I/AAAAAAAALng/fC4I24t2FNM4Xv53Qz1-gkn3GYVk1gYLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/4A1E31FF-4280-485E-B9F2-6C7A25CAB764.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-16396843118272643612021-08-08T13:56:00.008+05:302021-08-08T14:13:11.423+05:30The World on your Palm<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-je5v5nbrXGU/YQ-WHOg9YPI/AAAAAAAALnY/l8q9WHBKf00hxve9mdai7aIrE5yWACoMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/F45887F2-A1D5-4977-8804-D4124A1E7156.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-je5v5nbrXGU/YQ-WHOg9YPI/AAAAAAAALnY/l8q9WHBKf00hxve9mdai7aIrE5yWACoMwCLcBGAsYHQ/w310-h400/F45887F2-A1D5-4977-8804-D4124A1E7156.jpeg" width="310" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Cutie Jade Lilliputian 🪴 on my Palm</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d7kLN5wmclI/YQ-SO1C3B6I/AAAAAAAALnE/IgYZAEXtmlwIZrUUUuvydxVZ6LaquQrIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DA928B88-2689-442A-B954-496FAB060D94.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d7kLN5wmclI/YQ-SO1C3B6I/AAAAAAAALnE/IgYZAEXtmlwIZrUUUuvydxVZ6LaquQrIwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/DA928B88-2689-442A-B954-496FAB060D94.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span><a name='more'></a></span>Sharing my article which was published in </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Nichin Bonsai Magazine @ 2|2008 Edition </b></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f564w6Hydd0/YQ-SOyx0-RI/AAAAAAAALnI/_8hSIbw_WWUYlsSii3k_tOJshj5O5FdSACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/FADEB588-06F2-44BD-B6B3-F7EA4ADD71CC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f564w6Hydd0/YQ-SOyx0-RI/AAAAAAAALnI/_8hSIbw_WWUYlsSii3k_tOJshj5O5FdSACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/FADEB588-06F2-44BD-B6B3-F7EA4ADD71CC.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pt0u8hF-Iw4/YQ-SN1zFMZI/AAAAAAAALm8/jpf7OveIpAEXG8_WTafgwCcT4QsiRszBACLcBGAsYHQ/s1674/6EB0E8A0-50BF-42E3-99A7-13023451BCDE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1674" data-original-width="1624" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pt0u8hF-Iw4/YQ-SN1zFMZI/AAAAAAAALm8/jpf7OveIpAEXG8_WTafgwCcT4QsiRszBACLcBGAsYHQ/w621-h640/6EB0E8A0-50BF-42E3-99A7-13023451BCDE.jpeg" width="621" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Teeny Tiny Bonsai’s displayed </div><div style="text-align: center;">@ Old Wooden Stand </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-59029066205826990372021-08-07T13:21:00.019+05:302021-08-07T16:57:41.244+05:30Go Bananas…<p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"></span><span class="s2">🍌 Yay! Seems like I have gone Bananas over my own Blog 🤗</span><span class="s2"> all over again. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dzg4eT_etm8/YQ45dF7PaUI/AAAAAAAALmM/mb4uH-Puy2MoD4xqtbVMY3zWP8HruY3SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BB135497-09B1-45A3-85E9-5BD0F6CDEACD.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dzg4eT_etm8/YQ45dF7PaUI/AAAAAAAALmM/mb4uH-Puy2MoD4xqtbVMY3zWP8HruY3SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BB135497-09B1-45A3-85E9-5BD0F6CDEACD.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> A Fruiting Banana Tree @ Our Backyard</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3tPoUiSKByA/YQ45dYVoMoI/AAAAAAAALmQ/JGhRFR-syp8RgF0nFBoJNcdyFDJ6tJizACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/FA37DD57-4C30-46F9-9934-4D4FD6303A21.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3tPoUiSKByA/YQ45dYVoMoI/AAAAAAAALmQ/JGhRFR-syp8RgF0nFBoJNcdyFDJ6tJizACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/FA37DD57-4C30-46F9-9934-4D4FD6303A21.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">🍌 Perfect timing though, now that I have some much needed respite & some spare time to JUST BE @ HOLIDAY MODE & linger on things & stuff I WANNA DO. Whoa! What a luxurious, serene & peaceful State of Being, after eons.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2">🍌 I rarely even managed to take a stroll in the kitchen Garden @ Backyard, as much as I would like to since the very onset of this year… ‘2021’ with one health issue or the other keeping me on tenterhooks </span><span class="s3">😂</span><span class="s2"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2">🍌Slowed down and Stranded right from the word Go! Indeed, What a Hearty Welcome to 2021 as I started the year with Back Ache in Jan, A Thumb Fracture in Feb, long haul COVID thru April - May, and POST COVID… a Double Whammy with Teeth/Sinus Infection & an ALLERGIC reaction to wrong medicine this July-Aug. </span><span class="s3">😂</span><span class="s2"> Now, am Still sorting the last one out with Doctor Consultations, expensive n time consuming ‘wait n watch’ diagnostic investigations at the Hospital & being on Yucky Medications for Treatment & Relief. Yet again… How I shirk away from all of the above… and yet have to deal with it, as self inflicted repercussions. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2">🍌Thanks to my own NEGLECT n no RESPECT for myself, in a dismal effort to HELP (thankless) others, taking on their Chores, their fair share of duties, happily n smilingly, in their absence or otherwise. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLY6g6BG1zw/YQ5jV6IfZaI/AAAAAAAALmw/Usn0r4aUO_UWS0qlD9vYn85AFNUIwLXKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s738/3DC238B4-453A-43E0-88AC-6AE3717217CD.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="738" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLY6g6BG1zw/YQ5jV6IfZaI/AAAAAAAALmw/Usn0r4aUO_UWS0qlD9vYn85AFNUIwLXKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3DC238B4-453A-43E0-88AC-6AE3717217CD.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2">🍌Hmmm…</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2">🍌By the way, that’s quite a long list of ailments. Isn’t it?. The almost ‘PINK OF HEALTH’ 2020 but with tons n tons of additional physical work load simply took a toll when the Body probably decided to send an </span><span class="s3">🆘</span><span class="s2"> meaning ‘Enough is Enough’! </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2">🍌Hey! Look, YOU…. Better Get your Priorities in Place & Start Taking Good Care of yourself. PERIOD.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2">🍌Undoubtedly, 2021 is testing my resilience & strength, time n again. But, Thank God for being Alive and just breathing, surrounded with loving, concerned people & off course, Myriad Colours of NATURE, as I look around myself, relishing the rain washed Greens, Blooming Flowers, chirping Birds, colourful Butterflies, Skirting Squirrels, & a super harvest of mixed vegetables n fruits @ backyard. Health Restoration n Rejuvenation mode on… in full swing amidst Nature. 🤗</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2">🍌Let’s just sum up by staying Grateful n saying ‘All is Well n Good’, so long as we continue to Enjoy this roller coaster journey of Life with its UPs n DOWNs! </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gD1KBFWOEpg/YQ47JI_KR4I/AAAAAAAALmg/oOA-LLBVIwwp4rKyzHP-FuITZjgTSvveACLcBGAsYHQ/s266/05FA510D-731E-43A8-A4A3-19C822BE07BF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="190" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gD1KBFWOEpg/YQ47JI_KR4I/AAAAAAAALmg/oOA-LLBVIwwp4rKyzHP-FuITZjgTSvveACLcBGAsYHQ/w286-h400/05FA510D-731E-43A8-A4A3-19C822BE07BF.jpeg" width="286" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="s2"><br /></span><p></p>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-74595747793990818862021-08-06T13:04:00.013+05:302021-08-06T19:01:17.288+05:30Moments Frozen In Time….<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">🌿 <span style="font-size: 23px;"> The best part about pictures is that the moment is captured and frozen in time for all times to come.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1">🌿 I had almost forgotten about the Blog when I recently happened to post a comment on someone’s blog and instead of my name it got published with my Blog Name. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1">🌿 What a pleasant feeling of reverie, reminiscing, rediscovering while browsing through your own blog and realising it’s still very much there in spite of the years that have rolled past in a blink.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1">🌿 A great source of inspiration & strength as you leaf through your own posts considering the challenging CHANGES the WORLD has been forced to adapt to for mere ‘survival of mankind’ during these last two unfathomable pandemic years of global threat to Human Race.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1">🌿 Wonder when we will be able to BREATHE again as freely & safely as we did back than without having to shield our faces & cover our mouth n nose with a 😷 even while at home to ensure our own safety and well being of other fellow human beings.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1">🌿 LIFE as we knew it, has CHANGED so drastically, rather dramatically! None could have ever envisaged that a micro organism could be a cause of such global disease n despair. 😒 </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1">🌿 May God n Mother Nature forgive us for the misuse & unabashed destruction of her infinite resources and bounty gifts of Natural splendour all around us, we took for granted. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1">🌿 Hope we all put in our best efforts to help reevaluate, reinvent & restore the balance of the environment we live in! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1">🌿 Umpteen Prayers, Blessings n Best wishes, </span>for a better tomorrow & a much safer 🌍 world 🌏 for all! </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ny4QlSnWcOQ/YQzpaxM5G1I/AAAAAAAALmA/5_IZkDoK1j4i51bBk3kc02KY52SDPldDACLcBGAsYHQ/s1967/34F9182B-8538-45FD-A7ED-8E72D5AFB18C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1967" data-original-width="1423" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ny4QlSnWcOQ/YQzpaxM5G1I/AAAAAAAALmA/5_IZkDoK1j4i51bBk3kc02KY52SDPldDACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/34F9182B-8538-45FD-A7ED-8E72D5AFB18C.jpeg" width="231" /></a></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Freeze Frame 🖼 12:20 PM</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></div></blockquote><span class="s1"><br /></span><p></p>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-6374188679147459632021-08-05T13:27:00.005+05:302021-08-05T13:38:06.175+05:30Let’s Go Green….<p>A Blog after Eons….</p><p>Just trying to figure out how to post a Blog all over again. Used Desktops n Laptops back than & now we can post using our Mobiles. Whoa! Technology sure is evolving n changing by leaps and bounds… We lesser mortals have to keep learning, and reinventing, embracing this CHANGE with time!</p><p>So, for starters, merely trying to post some ‘Happy-Go-Green’ Pictures from our Garden. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LCu7MekEFpA/YQuUbZ79wsI/AAAAAAAALlA/zT5DaQsaJ3cv67Tnmnlz1B1uF9TzLxXoACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/D8DF23C5-C021-45F5-A383-09896681E158.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LCu7MekEFpA/YQuUbZ79wsI/AAAAAAAALlA/zT5DaQsaJ3cv67Tnmnlz1B1uF9TzLxXoACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/D8DF23C5-C021-45F5-A383-09896681E158.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">🌿Verdant Greens…..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XFDRl_uBHOk/YQuUabtFk9I/AAAAAAAALk0/pSvxA63b1b8UFtar2u5rPKJIyLhrCjKMACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BEA0A460-0BC8-4915-8CBF-ED8600C91BB7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XFDRl_uBHOk/YQuUabtFk9I/AAAAAAAALk0/pSvxA63b1b8UFtar2u5rPKJIyLhrCjKMACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BEA0A460-0BC8-4915-8CBF-ED8600C91BB7.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div> 🌿 Lush Greens…<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E0b8kNqOoOU/YQuUZvlabEI/AAAAAAAALkw/_le9vpD7azQ8pJ6qEozikSo5mBlZMhq2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1773/B8035CF3-B1D5-49CC-ABFE-2563DBAD707F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="1636" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E0b8kNqOoOU/YQuUZvlabEI/AAAAAAAALkw/_le9vpD7azQ8pJ6qEozikSo5mBlZMhq2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/B8035CF3-B1D5-49CC-ABFE-2563DBAD707F.jpeg" width="295" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;">🪴 If speaking kindly to plants </span><span style="text-align: center;">helps them grow imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do.🪴</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aUm7ThgpG4w/YQuUZQa7RJI/AAAAAAAALko/YdJN4_ZoU0USoiKKrPcp0zXvTFW1l4oJACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/303AACA0-F7FB-4479-B5BB-5B675BDE003E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aUm7ThgpG4w/YQuUZQa7RJI/AAAAAAAALko/YdJN4_ZoU0USoiKKrPcp0zXvTFW1l4oJACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/303AACA0-F7FB-4479-B5BB-5B675BDE003E.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">🌿Soothing, refreshing, rejuvenating, energising GREENS….</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W541Owz5s_g/YQuUZdj7RGI/AAAAAAAALks/o1aMinTcyhcJKgw9R-xG6iO7ZQg9lFn1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/53B1E488-A1EB-402B-8779-F28E68A03778.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W541Owz5s_g/YQuUZdj7RGI/AAAAAAAALks/o1aMinTcyhcJKgw9R-xG6iO7ZQg9lFn1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/53B1E488-A1EB-402B-8779-F28E68A03778.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div>🌿 The summer scorched plants appear so much more GREENER celebrating, radiating and spreading their Happiness with the onset of Rains! <p></p><p>Whoa! Adapting to a new Blogger Format all over again. </p><p>Well… Let’s just say, Enjoyed the experience! 🪴 </p><p>Keep Enjoying the surrounding Greens 🌿 & the Rains…,</p>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-84895548944370776862012-02-05T15:24:00.005+05:302012-02-05T16:41:06.850+05:30Dance with the Daffodils....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CykONwCZi7U/Ty3yJ4X90_I/AAAAAAAAJ5U/2bw934YOxHU/s1600/daffodil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="434" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CykONwCZi7U/Ty3yJ4X90_I/AAAAAAAAJ5U/2bw934YOxHU/s640/daffodil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>~~*****~~</b></span><br />
<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="color: #274e13;">In vacant or in pensive mood,</span></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="color: #274e13;">They flash upon that inward eye</span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Which is the bliss of solitude;</span></span></b></div></div><b></b><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="color: #274e13;">And then my heart with pleasure fills,</span></span></b></b></div></div><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"></span></b><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="color: #274e13;">And dances with the daffodils.</span></span></b></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="color: #274e13;">~~ *****~~</span></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;">William Wordsworth</span></span></span></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pNabhmLKmjM/Ty5Oba6Ca8I/AAAAAAAAJ50/YjIPp-Lp4T4/s1600/daffodil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pNabhmLKmjM/Ty5Oba6Ca8I/AAAAAAAAJ50/YjIPp-Lp4T4/s640/daffodil.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring is in the air, with the blooms everywhere.....</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7sDMri2-A3U/Ty5MyMAmfeI/AAAAAAAAJ5c/WiIZ6fk8vFk/s1600/rose+n+gladioli+2k12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7sDMri2-A3U/Ty5MyMAmfeI/AAAAAAAAJ5c/WiIZ6fk8vFk/s640/rose+n+gladioli+2k12.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early Buds...</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dN5A7Hlnrzg/Ty5M-FrESfI/AAAAAAAAJ5k/l2aGS6OpqKc/s1600/rose+n+gladioli+2k121.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dN5A7Hlnrzg/Ty5M-FrESfI/AAAAAAAAJ5k/l2aGS6OpqKc/s640/rose+n+gladioli+2k121.jpg" width="382" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just Beginning to Blossom...</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3kYdBXTNrR8/Ty5N45MwkbI/AAAAAAAAJ5s/t2Ogr8jb1uk/s1600/daffodil1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3kYdBXTNrR8/Ty5N45MwkbI/AAAAAAAAJ5s/t2Ogr8jb1uk/s640/daffodil1.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">& Finally, A cluster of Dazzling Daffodils,<br />
Symbolizing onset of Spring for <a href="http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.in/">Today's Flower</a><br />
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Happy Sunday n Happy Spring Season ahead....</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dM9hHCI4bN0/TjQgMiHRlrI/AAAAAAAAJ0g/WrelmYg5xl4/s1600/ABA+wkshop+july2k11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dM9hHCI4bN0/TjQgMiHRlrI/AAAAAAAAJ0g/WrelmYg5xl4/s640/ABA+wkshop+july2k11.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So Delicate n Dainty....</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPRduJse-gs/TjQgPprwMVI/AAAAAAAAJ0k/UqlGyaLozcU/s1600/ABA+wkshop+july2k112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPRduJse-gs/TjQgPprwMVI/AAAAAAAAJ0k/UqlGyaLozcU/s640/ABA+wkshop+july2k112.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A teeny-tiny Floral Firework.... for <a href="http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/2011/07/todays-flowers-154.html">Todays Flower # 154</a><br />
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A Flower's appeal is in the contradictions -<br />
So delicate in form, yet strong in fragrance...<br />
So small in size, yet big in beauty..........<br />
So short in life, yet long on effect.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k7JJGNDZww4/Tivi2sD7kbI/AAAAAAAAJ0E/EEGbvip912I/s1600/pom+pom1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k7JJGNDZww4/Tivi2sD7kbI/AAAAAAAAJ0E/EEGbvip912I/s640/pom+pom1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty in Pink @ Rain Lilies...<br />
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With so many of them blooming together in the garden, during the rainy season, they form a beautiful pink floral carpet <br />
(A carpet, one would never wanna walk on.....)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyranthes">Zephyranthes</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">Pink Zephyr Lilies for <a href="http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/">Todays Flower # 153 </a><br />
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Happy Sunday! n Hope you have a Magical Week ahead....<br />
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</div></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-89751532749348376992011-07-22T06:59:00.003+05:302011-07-22T07:27:35.473+05:30Skywatch @ Friday!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Here are some interesting Sightings for Friday <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/">Sky watching! </a></span><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ue8B9_dE_e0/TijOhAK3lTI/AAAAAAAAJz8/Ta8Hk0hGBB8/s1600/butterfly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ue8B9_dE_e0/TijOhAK3lTI/AAAAAAAAJz8/Ta8Hk0hGBB8/s640/butterfly.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even on a gloomy grey day, sighting a butterfly just.... MAKES YOUR DAY! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spotted this peahen perched on our roof for the first n last time... <br />
a day after my great grand mother passed away @ July 2008</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another day, Another time....<br />
These wild monkeys are a regular feature around the house....<br />
n marauding the garden / plants, happens to be their favorite past time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5gOCOBvxWVA/TijPXRjbHuI/AAAAAAAAJ0A/w54F3kgCOcI/s1600/Langur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5gOCOBvxWVA/TijPXRjbHuI/AAAAAAAAJ0A/w54F3kgCOcI/s640/Langur.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Spotted a few LANGURs on a clear blue sky day, during one of my trips to the countryside!<br />
Others were non nonchalant, while one of them looked ready to pounce...any moment. Scary!<br />
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Have an Interesting Day ahead...n Happy <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/">Sky Watching!</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-88515416597651572452011-07-11T15:32:00.004+05:302011-07-12T14:26:40.930+05:30Cheery Cherry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Buds, the flowers n the Fruits @ <a href="http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/mosaic-monday-bunnys-sunken-garden.html">Mosaic Monday</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">It is one of the most commonly used</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"><b> flowering</b> n </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b>fruiting tree,</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> grown</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"> by beginners and novices, introducing them to the world of miniature greens (Bonsai), along with the (naarangi)/</span>Oranges, (Amrood)/Chinese Guava, (Anar)/Pomegranates, (Chikoo)/Sapodilla and (Imli)/Tamarind. It is a fairly hardy plant with fine ramification, easy to look after and thrives well in sunlight. The branches are stiff and hence difficult to wire n bend. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w6pDWREoFOA/Thmk76UMnGI/AAAAAAAAJwo/13HWz0PCTy8/s1600/viola+violet1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w6pDWREoFOA/Thmk76UMnGI/AAAAAAAAJwo/13HWz0PCTy8/s640/viola+violet1.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://showyourworld.blogspot.com/">My World </a> @ The Cherry Tree - Informal Upright style </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teeny Tiny Buds formed at the pinnacle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Pink Flowers .....with five fringed petals<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eFjWrbWcDNM/ThmkGwRXJ7I/AAAAAAAAJwc/-GG_C9OWsT0/s1600/viola+violet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eFjWrbWcDNM/ThmkGwRXJ7I/AAAAAAAAJwc/-GG_C9OWsT0/s640/viola+violet.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> Flowers giving way to teeny tiny Cherries<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5t5Uci-oINo/ThmkQAwiJwI/AAAAAAAAJwg/nDQgaJeFgxc/s1600/viola+violet2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5t5Uci-oINo/ThmkQAwiJwI/AAAAAAAAJwg/nDQgaJeFgxc/s640/viola+violet2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>one of them finally turning Ripe Red over a matter of days. The Fruits are a rich source of Vitamin C</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Cherry Tree has been under training since July 2006<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Throughout the growing season, the plant grows </span>profusely and has to be pruned back in shape. T<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">he tree with its glossy green leaves, contrasting pink flowers n bright Red fruits add a beautiful accent to the garden. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For more wonderful collages n Mosaic work visit <a href="http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/mosaic-monday-bunnys-sunken-garden.html">here</a> n see more of the World<a href="http://showyourworld.blogspot.com/"> here</a>.</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-4666838653195214382011-06-26T08:49:00.013+05:302011-06-27T18:18:24.059+05:30Today's Flower: Sunflower<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CDibKgcH_DQ/TgakqZ63GXI/AAAAAAAAJvA/HkjCyAGgGcw/s1600/sunflower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CDibKgcH_DQ/TgakqZ63GXI/AAAAAAAAJvA/HkjCyAGgGcw/s640/sunflower.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whoa! This one is really huge, had to support it with my hand.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">~Henry Ward Beecher, <i>Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><i>Entry for <a href="http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/">Todays Flower # 149</a> n <a href="http://mellowyellowmonday.blogspot.com/">Mellow Yellow Monday</a></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Have a Super-Duper weekend!</i></span></div></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-70513542592826930532011-06-22T13:06:00.012+05:302011-06-24T10:07:14.493+05:30Mango - 'Make-a-Wish' Tree<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Summer in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> heralds the season of the Delicious n Juicy Fruits like Aam / Mangoes, along with the Litchi / Lychee, Tarboj / Watermelons n Kharbooja / Mashmelons.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soak the Mangoes in water to reduce n wash off Pitta (heat)</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>While I like them all, my personal fav among them, is most definitely the delightful Mango, referred to as the ‘King of Fruits’ n also ‘the Nectar of the Gods’. You can savour the ripe mangoes fresh from the trees or make pickles or chutneys or moraba (jam) from the unripe ones or quench your thirst with chilled summer drinks like Aam panna or refreshing Mango Shake or even Punjabi Mango laasi or merely devour them as katha-meetha aam papad or sweet mango kheer for desert.<br />
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While I have been praising this stately fruit, let me not forget the MANGO TREE, which happens to be one of the most majestic trees here in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> - what with their tall n thick trunk, dense foliage, with wide spreading branches forming a Magnificent Umbrella Canopy. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four Mango-laden Trees growing in our side yard, form a near perfect Umbrella Canopy together.....<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What I really like about these trees is that they form one large single unit together, while, up close they are four different trees. We need to learn something from them.... they don't jostle for space, they each seem happy and contend growing harmoniously together.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helpers collecting n picking mangoes, hand plucked by the gardener high up on the branches. <br />
Can you spot the gardener precariously perched between the dark n dense foliage above (right) ????<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9LEblNOoJKs/TgBSXNy1iqI/AAAAAAAAJr4/EyQUpd-26ng/s1600/Mango+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9LEblNOoJKs/TgBSXNy1iqI/AAAAAAAAJr4/EyQUpd-26ng/s640/Mango+collage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Basket n Baskets full of Dusheri Mangoes is ready to be savoured.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p>We have some 8-10 mango trees growing in our yard here in the city n another sprawling 45 acres of Mango grove in <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2009/12/nawabgunj-in-pictures.html">Nawabgunj</a> countryside, about 150 Kms from here, specializing in the Rose tinted Gulab khas, Green Dusheri, Yellow Zardalu, Langra, Chausa, Safeeda varieties of mangoes n other lesser known varieties - Makhan, Fakira, maste-anar, katha-meetha, dil-pasand, kishen-bhog, shakul.</div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Mango grove @ <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2009/12/nawabgunj-in-pictures.html">Nawabgunj</a> countryside - old trees interspersed with some recent plantations.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jQimqP033Is/TgIZDxUwiBI/AAAAAAAAJu8/uJpFMLflOlA/s1600/Riding+High1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jQimqP033Is/TgIZDxUwiBI/AAAAAAAAJu8/uJpFMLflOlA/s640/Riding+High1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Some More Mango Trees...</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The mango grove initially belonged to the last ruling <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nawab of <st1:place w:st="on">Oudh</st1:place>, Nawab Nawajid Ali</b> n his family and was established way back in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1906</b>. It is believed that about 1000 saplings of the rose flavoured ‘Gulab khas’ variety, came all the way from Afghanistan. These trees are a little over 100 yrs old.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rose Flavoured Mangoes i.e. 'Gulab Khas' originally from Afghanistan<br />
Its a highly delicate variety, as the mangoes tend to spoil even if pressed gently n have to be handled with utmost care.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">After independence, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rani Rehula Shakuntala,</b> is known to have bought 215 bigha’s of Mango grove from the Nawab. After the Indo-Pak partition, the Rani permanently shifted base to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, selling this property to my grandfather,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>in 1960’s. As a little kid, I used to be fascinated with this bit of history n other tell-tales associated with <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2009/12/nawabgunj-in-pictures.html">Nawabgunj</a>. In retrospect, I have come to appreciate the bounty and marvel of Nature, trees, flowers, fruits, plants, art of bonsai, the whole gamut of beautiful greens around us.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Here’s another interesting tale about Mango Tree’s from <b>‘The Book of Nature’ by Ruskin Bond. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mango Blossoms...</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In the Folklore of India, the Mango is considered to be a ‘wish fulfilling tree’ or 'Make-a-Wish' Tree.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So, when you want to make a wish on a mango tree, shut your eyes and get someone to lead you to the tree; then rub mango blossoms in your hands and make a wish. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The favour granted lasts only for a year and the charm must be performed again at the next flowering of the tree. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Go ahead....... n Make a Wish! For all you know, it might just get granted.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blossom giving way to Bunch of Mangoes...high up on the Tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally.... the Fruits of Labour... Dusheri Mangoes (Desapped, Soaked, Washed n Dried)<br />
Unripe ones well suited for making pickles n aam panna (green mango drink) <br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Too bad, I just read about the folklore only recently, and so could not 'make-a-wish' this flowering season but, yeah, I intend to give it a try<b>, </b>during the next mango flowering season, come Spring. I have already started working on my rather long 'WISH LIST' and hoping that the Mango Tree would grant them all. Amen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My entry for <a href="http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/2011/06/622-outdoor-wednesday-128.html#comments">Outdoor Wednesday # 128</a></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-39161635967034935782011-06-12T11:29:00.012+05:302011-06-13T14:32:53.327+05:30First Thing First...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VAQjZ9qhdLE/TfRCjLKzV8I/AAAAAAAAJrM/EDaqQE1P2iY/s1600/Lily6-1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VAQjZ9qhdLE/TfRCjLKzV8I/AAAAAAAAJrM/EDaqQE1P2iY/s640/Lily6-1.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">First Impressions are said to be lasting Impressions....</div><br />
As human beings, we readily recall things that we see or learn first, in any given period, far better than those we see or learn later on....We probably think of the first born, or the first school, the first job, the first meeting or the first trip together.... much more fondly n favorably than others; for their added warmth, curiosity, excitement, n off course new found novelty.<br />
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Likewise, for a gardener, the seasons First Blooms in the Garden are always wee-bit X-tra SPECIAL!<br />
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We have had a few Lily bulbs growing in this particular pot for a while now, but its for the very First Time, a bulb has ever blossomed.......that too in the middle of Summers. Unlike <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2011/04/oh-lily.html">Easter lilies</a> or Day Lilies, going by the enormous size of the Bud n its lustrous texture, they probably are some exotic variety, Beautiful n Glossy Trumpet Lilies or probably Oriental Lilies<b>???</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">To the Chinese, Lily means 'Forever in Love' <o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;">To me, well... The <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2011/04/oh-lily.html">Star-like Lily</a> reminds me of the Nursery Rhyme.....Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How I Wonder, what you are.....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Up above the World so High.....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like a Diamond in the Sky.....<br />
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My entry for <a href="http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/2011/06/todays-flowers-147.html">Today's Flower # 147</a> n <a href="http://macroflower-saturday.blogspot.com/">Macro Saturday</a><br />
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Have a great Weekend n Shine on.... Like a Star Diamond in the Sky!<br />
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</div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-63904558608769434352011-05-31T13:43:00.005+05:302011-05-31T14:22:28.373+05:30Yipppppeeeee! Its Raining....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkRqe4hJrN8/TeSVwq5wHSI/AAAAAAAAJqo/iNLVTGpASIA/s1600/Azalea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkRqe4hJrN8/TeSVwq5wHSI/AAAAAAAAJqo/iNLVTGpASIA/s640/Azalea.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br />
</div><div>Today morning I woke up to this really awesome weather after the rain and the dust storm, last night. The storm did leave its trail of leaves n branches strewn all over the yard, a basket full of Mangoes which must have fallen down during the storm, a displaced bamboo fencing,10 -12 broken pots wherein their plants had to be re-potted first thing in the morning n more....<br />
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YET, in-spite of all this damage, I am not complaining and merely enjoying the aftermath of the first rains of the season.... the wet grass, the distinctive scent of the soil after the rains, the pearly droplets on flowers, overcast skies n the refreshing site of the rain washed greens all around....</div><div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Garden... after the Rain this morning</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Bougainvillea in all its glory. Wonder how these delicate paper-y flowers are still up there even after the storm????</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uSdw-JM8SEA/TeSSClgK9-I/AAAAAAAAJqQ/sScvSOuwrJs/s1600/Palm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uSdw-JM8SEA/TeSSClgK9-I/AAAAAAAAJqQ/sScvSOuwrJs/s640/Palm.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fountain Palm.... braving the changing seasons, 24 * 7... 365 days a year!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bravo! This MANGO seems to have stuck it out....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">........while most others, were 'Gone with the Wind' </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crepe Myrtle.....in Pretty Pinks!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PINK..... Seems to be the colour of the season in our garden this summer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Pinks @ Portulaca's, waiting in the wings to bloom n for the sun to come-up again.....<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: small;">"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: small;">there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather" <br />
~John Ruskin<br />
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Hope you enjoy the 'good weather' times ahead.....</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-17824352791137116432011-05-11T13:54:00.008+05:302011-05-14T12:50:31.070+05:30Life is a Beach....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ErwShdgjtC0/Tco9s9zYoHI/AAAAAAAAJkI/cWKN9yiJV8w/s1600/Life+s+a+Beach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="382" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ErwShdgjtC0/Tco9s9zYoHI/AAAAAAAAJkI/cWKN9yiJV8w/s640/Life+s+a+Beach.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thinking of Sand, Sea n Surf.....to beat the Sweltering Indian Summer Spell ahead....</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OshqB_lxtkU/Tco-CisFlOI/AAAAAAAAJkM/6kR34okh50s/s1600/Beach9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OshqB_lxtkU/Tco-CisFlOI/AAAAAAAAJkM/6kR34okh50s/s640/Beach9.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> & SPLASHING in the Deep Blue Seas of the <a href="http://www.greenislandresort.com.au/history.html">Great Barrier Reef.</a><br />
Whoa! A Truly Refreshing thought...</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xECRzONRUgI/Tco-jHlRFfI/AAAAAAAAJkQ/x0E8f7FUU2Y/s1600/Jelly+Fish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="382" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xECRzONRUgI/Tco-jHlRFfI/AAAAAAAAJkQ/x0E8f7FUU2Y/s640/Jelly+Fish.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BEWARE! .... these soft, mushy n colourful sea jellies actually sting. Scary....</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kyxpr2TZygs/TcpAeOZsmMI/AAAAAAAAJkU/WnPUESxZKxY/s1600/Drift+Wood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kyxpr2TZygs/TcpAeOZsmMI/AAAAAAAAJkU/WnPUESxZKxY/s640/Drift+Wood.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Came across some interesting pc of Driftwood on the beach... a Dino // a Snake ?????</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nw6J_a2B8Xw/TcpBo39oOdI/AAAAAAAAJkY/xBIXqzJiXJA/s1600/Wanna+Join+them+at+play.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nw6J_a2B8Xw/TcpBo39oOdI/AAAAAAAAJkY/xBIXqzJiXJA/s640/Wanna+Join+them+at+play.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks like the lads are having a whale of a time.....Wanna Join them at Play?????</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BAl0I8bk5Vc/TcpCM6MyhkI/AAAAAAAAJkc/jcyPKrgik5M/s1600/Shadow+Shot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BAl0I8bk5Vc/TcpCM6MyhkI/AAAAAAAAJkc/jcyPKrgik5M/s640/Shadow+Shot.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well... thats ME n my Shadow Shot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ubgFJn0Y8s/TcpCplv2-GI/AAAAAAAAJkg/A4hGgQjUf54/s1600/Bliss...Feeling+the+wet+sand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ubgFJn0Y8s/TcpCplv2-GI/AAAAAAAAJkg/A4hGgQjUf54/s640/Bliss...Feeling+the+wet+sand.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach"</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ukGWuSUdDHo/TcpDLev1_KI/AAAAAAAAJkk/vRUq0y5ktJI/s1600/Green+Island%252C+Great+Barrier+Reef%252C+Cairns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="382" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ukGWuSUdDHo/TcpDLev1_KI/AAAAAAAAJkk/vRUq0y5ktJI/s640/Green+Island%252C+Great+Barrier+Reef%252C+Cairns.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The three great elemental sounds in nature are the.... sound of rain, the sound of wind on primeval wood,<br />
and the sound of outer ocean on the beach.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F6poMkj9GnM/TcpD9CcirxI/AAAAAAAAJko/zV9Iu7UCAWQ/s1600/Caught+Ya%2521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="382" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F6poMkj9GnM/TcpD9CcirxI/AAAAAAAAJko/zV9Iu7UCAWQ/s640/Caught+Ya%2521.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caught'ya! ....But hey, I didn't mean to pry. Likewise, was merely enjoying the boundless ocean view.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0xDJ_kG-zPM/TcpFMWT4mAI/AAAAAAAAJks/djfQm_fivto/s1600/Beach6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="382" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0xDJ_kG-zPM/TcpFMWT4mAI/AAAAAAAAJks/djfQm_fivto/s640/Beach6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Beach @ <a href="http://www.greenislandresort.com.au/green-island.html">Green Island,</a> Great Barrier Reef, Cairns</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ns8kZQkj74o/TcpG2GdvwZI/AAAAAAAAJkw/dUl5w1_VGaI/s1600/Beach10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ns8kZQkj74o/TcpG2GdvwZI/AAAAAAAAJkw/dUl5w1_VGaI/s640/Beach10.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>NOTHING </b>can be more cooling in summers than LIFE ON A BEACH.......<br />
<br />
My entry for : Wordless Wednesday n <a href="http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/2011/05/511-outdoor-wednesday-122.html">Outdoor Wednesday </a> n <a href="http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/">Watery Wednesday</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>PS: Its only May & the mercury has already touched 44 Degree Celsius here. Phew! I <b>HATE</b> Summers.<div>PSS: Its meant to be a FEEL GOOD ( read COOL) blog, as I take this pictorial trip down memory lane.</div></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-45185873912011854542011-04-30T15:37:00.014+05:302011-05-04T20:23:30.121+05:30Oh Lily!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You, serve as a beautiful reminder,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that Easter is a time for much rejoicing and celebrating.....</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kchOFTVZW5o/TbvDharWChI/AAAAAAAAJjg/auLdBpeG4b0/s1600/lily+20114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kchOFTVZW5o/TbvDharWChI/AAAAAAAAJjg/auLdBpeG4b0/s640/lily+20114.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">You are also the white-robed apostle of hope....</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #24246c;"> </span></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ever wondered how the whole year around, they lie low, almost inconspicuous, but come Easter (March-April) one can find them springing back to life, when a shaft of Green shoots upwards towards the sky bearing tiny buds, which blossom into trumpet shaped flowers in varied colours of Pure White, Ravishing Red, Mellow Yellow, Delightful Orange n more….</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xFp_052NoJ4/TbvDzjRBW3I/AAAAAAAAJjk/gxw0NrgBwYE/s1600/lily+20111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xFp_052NoJ4/TbvDzjRBW3I/AAAAAAAAJjk/gxw0NrgBwYE/s640/lily+20111.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Springing Back to Life after a long long wait.....</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6KWH1uctOhc/TbvEHwguwAI/AAAAAAAAJjo/qI0JwWv1PJo/s1600/aba+wkshop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6KWH1uctOhc/TbvEHwguwAI/AAAAAAAAJjo/qI0JwWv1PJo/s640/aba+wkshop.jpg" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Easter Lillies @ Symbolic of Joy, Purity, Virtue, Hope n Yearning for Life....</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-woZrM62YBvo/TbvERz75PfI/AAAAAAAAJjs/E43UQkg1eYQ/s1600/lily+20116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-woZrM62YBvo/TbvERz75PfI/AAAAAAAAJjs/E43UQkg1eYQ/s640/lily+20116.jpg" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lilium longiflorum....in all its Pristine Glory!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yLUGnMn-Kk0/TbvFTMKOQ0I/AAAAAAAAJj8/n8WS9MyrOJ0/s1600/lily+20113.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yLUGnMn-Kk0/TbvFTMKOQ0I/AAAAAAAAJj8/n8WS9MyrOJ0/s640/lily+20113.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amaryllis Lily......Hippeastrum</span></div></td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Ntfu4YTVj8/TbvE5sbSsBI/AAAAAAAAJj4/SSUhZw5qbCQ/s1600/lily+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Ntfu4YTVj8/TbvE5sbSsBI/AAAAAAAAJj4/SSUhZw5qbCQ/s640/lily+2011.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"</span>Hippeastrum" is Latin for "horseman's star", also known as "knight's star"</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span>as buds on the verge of opening look something like a horse's ear, while the blossoms resemble six-pointed stars....</span></div></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange Day Lilies<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Daylilies are clump forming perennials with Flowers that are large, ornamental, and orange in color while the Leaves are Long, Grass-like, and green in colour. . A leafless stalk, called a scape, extends above the leaves, bearing the flowers. In most varieties the flowers open one at a time, and last only one day, hence the name…. Day Lilies!<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheer-y Yellow Daylillies.... n Buzo, our adorable, 8 yr old Lab......sun bathing in the garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1euApglW3lQ/TbvFfD2WkCI/AAAAAAAAJkA/SrJThLh9vHs/s1600/lily+20115.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1euApglW3lQ/TbvFfD2WkCI/AAAAAAAAJkA/SrJThLh9vHs/s640/lily+20115.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Some flowers have uniform colors or patterns on all six petals </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">while others have more pronounced colors on the upper petals than on the lower ones.... </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">as can be seen in this flower.</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><i><b>PS</b></i>:</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><i>I had meant to do this post on Lily around Easter, but nonetheless</i></span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><i>Hope this Easter was Joyous for you and your near dear ones!</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">My entry for : <a href="http://aplantfanatic.blogspot.com/2011/04/hot-loud-and-proud-14.html">The Haute, The Loud, The Proud # 14</a> n <a href="http://blueberrycraftandhobbytime.blogspot.com/2011/04/flowers-on-saturday-week-21.html">Flowers on Saturday</a> n</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://camera-critters.blogspot.com/2011/04/camera-critters-160.html">Camera Critters</a>, <a href="http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/">Todays Flowers # 141</a> , <a href="http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2011/05/mosaic-monday-all-things-beautiful.html">Mosaic Monday</a> , <a href="http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/">Outdoor Wednesday</a></span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Click on the link above to visit other participants....</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-3452290226920186012011-04-22T15:33:00.005+05:302011-04-22T15:51:46.847+05:30Sky Watch Friday: Bada Imambara<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It seems, I just can't get enough of my own <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2010/07/skywatch-friday-hide-n-seek.html">City of Nawabs aka LUCKNOW</a>. I must have visited the Bada Imambara several times before, and yet here I am again, with outstation relatives in tow, who were visiting Lucknow for the first time. I enjoyed capturing pictures of the monument as much as they did, while the guide took us around.... on a sightseeing tour of the Imambara, its domed chambers and central hallway, the Bhulbhulayan (maze/ labyrinth), the Bowli, the Asfi Mosque and the Gardens....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Endless Corridor @ Bhulbhulayah (the Labyrinth)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bada Imambara Facade - Among the grandest Buildings of Lucknow aka City of Nawabs. </td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_Imambara">Bara Imambara </a>was built in 1783, a year of a devastating famine, and one of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaf-ud-Daula" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Asaf-ud-Daula">Asaf-ud-Daula</a>'s objectives in embarking on this grandiose project was to provide employment for people in the region. According to reports, the famine continued for over a decade and the construction of the building continued for this time. It is said that ordinary people used to work in the day building up the edifice, while noblemen and other elite were called at night to break down all the structure raised, <i>as they were incapable of doing anything else,</i> according to a chronicle of the period. This see-saw efforts continued till the famine period was over. </span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Running arched Parapets on the Roof of Bada Imambara - Photo taken @ 6:11 PM</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minutes later the sky changes colour .... Photo taken @ 6:15 PM</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Undoubtedly my Favorite shot for the day....what with warm Orange hues as a backdrop for the Minarets</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enjoying the view of the city, along with the Sunset, peeping through one of the Arched Parapets </td></tr>
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</div></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-43974077103281994792011-03-30T08:25:00.009+05:302011-03-30T16:04:26.806+05:30Maaza Mango<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture of the FIRST MANGOES in our Yard, this Summer.<br />
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My Entry for <a href="http://www.wordlesswednesday.com/newhome/2011/03/29/march-30/">Wordless Wednesday</a>! n <a href="http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/2011/03/330-outdoor-wednesday-116.html">Outdoor Wednesday</a> n <a href="http://www.lgordonphotography.com/2011/03/creative-exchange-march-28th-april-1st.html">The Creative Exchange</a><br />
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Shhhhh....Lets get Wordless.</td></tr>
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Acc. to WIKIPEDIA....<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">...<br />
SUPER MOON is a new or full moon which occurs with the Moon at or near its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perigee" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Perigee">perigee</a>). In short, Earth, Moon and Sun are all in a line, with Moon in its nearest approach to Earth.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Moon is supposedly Bigger n Brighter, but can you tell the difference????????</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bigger...No! ( It looked just the same to me); Brighter .... Yes! <br />
Its blazing glare is making the moon appear lopsided in this picture, hence bigger!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trail..... that you see just below the moon is from an Airplane. <br />
Too Bad! missed capturing the two together by splitting seconds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All Aglow and Lighting up the Night Sky!<br />
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My entry for <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/">Sky Watch Friday!</a><br />
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Come together and Join the world in this Cause and Show Your Support @ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/earthhour?feature=yoodle">EARTH HOUR</a><br />
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Switch Off! Step out n Enjoy the Moonlit Night outdoors ....</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-9733501546909966752011-03-20T15:03:00.011+05:302011-03-22T15:09:44.393+05:30Splash In Spring Colours....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">The center of our garden is a riot of 'PHLOX' colours, this HOLI</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">as opposed to the pristine white carpet of candy tuft flowers we had last spring.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Phlox adding a dash of colour to our spring garden, this year</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Carpet @ Last Spring, around HOLI</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p>LOOK! </o:p>Our domestic helper’s son spotted these two teeny tiny nests with one and two eggs each nestled deep within the two Thuja orientalis Trees growing in our garden. (Though, only one of them can be seen in the extreme left corner @ the topmost snap above).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The little one helped me to peep through the dense and bushy foliage and click a picture or two of the 'NESTS' to share here via my blog, Evergreen Tree. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> BTW, Can you spot the little black birdie within its bushy foliage @ top left snap in the collage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We have them growing wild, in one of the flower beds this year, still adding a dash of blue n violets to the garden, while the other beds showcasing the early bloomers like <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2010/12/goodbye-2010-n-hello-2011.html">the Calendula</a>, the <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2011/02/golden-flowers.html">California Poppy</a> n Dog flowers need to be cleared in the coming week ahead after a flourishing winter flowering season. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They will be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">replaced with fresh</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">plantation comprising of Green needle like <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2010/06/go-green.html">Cochia’s,</a> <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/sunny-side-up-with-sunflowers.html">Sunflowers </a>and Zinnia’s in the front garden.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Talking of FLOCKS aka PHLOX, they are such prolific growers and seem to have taken over the marigolds encircling them as a border edging. The cluster of flower on top of the stems is very bright and showy, as their vibrant blossom comes in various shades of purple, pink, red, violets, blues and even white. They seem to like full sun and once established they grow well with regular watering, weeding and the best part, without much effort and care.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Being Perennial, these Phlox flourish well through the Flowering Season, in Spring and early Summer, when they are planted in November. Come April, these beds would soon be cleared to be replaced by the nine-o-clock flowers aka <a href="http://mye-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/hot-loud-proud-may-meme.html">Portulaca</a>, which will add much needed colour around the Fountain during the scorching Indian summer months ahead….</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My entry for <a href="http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/">Todays Flower # 136</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Also linking to </span><a href="http://heyharriet.blogspot.com/2011/03/shadow-shot-sunday-148.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SS</span> # 148</a> n <a href="http://camera-critters.blogspot.com/2011/03/camera-critters-154.html">CC # 154</a>, <a href="http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/mosaic-monday-snowdrops.html">MM:Snowdrops</a>,<a href="http://mellowyellowmonday.blogspot.com/2011/03/mellow-yellow-monday-113.html"> MM #113</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Click on the Links to visit them.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Its a Festive SUNDAY for us here, as we are celebrate the Indian festival of colours today,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Wishing all a Very Happy n Colourful HOLI!</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-43184386462426666572011-03-16T14:25:00.006+05:302011-03-16T15:29:50.289+05:30Wordless Wednesday: Pets n Topiary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whoa! Saw my first-ever St. Bernard @ Dog Show, E-Park, Mahanagar.<br />
My entry for <a href="http://camera-critters.blogspot.com/">Camera Critters</a> # 153</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">.....n Looking out in the direction of this Dino Topiary....I saw clear skies, Green Grass, Flowers n Lush Ornamentals,<br />
... n people enjoying a leisurely Sunday afternoon @ Flower Show, E-Park, Mahanagar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Nature has no rewards or punishments,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">All it has is consequences….</div></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">What we just saw in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>, is a heart wrecking consequence of Nature’s fury.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ordinarily, we would all be awe-struck as we gaze out at the boundless ocean, marveling at its serene blue stretch. However, on witnessing a Tsunami we can’t help but feel extremely vulnerable and helpless against this gigantic killer wave, which has the power to devastate everything coming in its path with gay abundance.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Personally, I was numb with shock n grief, when I got to hear about the <a href="http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html">Earthquake and the Tsunami in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region></a>. Just didn’t know what to say or do, except maybe.....</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">....H.O.P.E. .....Hanging-on n Praying Earnestly! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Today at 9:30 pm the world’s going to pray for Japan for a min. Please do broadcast this message and join me in Prayer and Support for the people of Japan.<br />
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Would like to add an inspiring quote I read in the 4th edition of @ Nichin Bonsai<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">"Sea waves are really inspiring, not because they rise and fall. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">But because each time they fall, they never fail to rise again"</span></div></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-8182466620787415712011-03-09T15:06:00.004+05:302011-03-09T15:26:36.414+05:30Wordless Wednesday : Nature's Marvel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-frlc9kW7PPY/TXdJs_Ab48I/AAAAAAAAJf8/a7x7HXZ8R6U/s1600/Collages2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-frlc9kW7PPY/TXdJs_Ab48I/AAAAAAAAJf8/a7x7HXZ8R6U/s640/Collages2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"></span></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">And find your shoulder to light on,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">To bring you luck, happiness and riches</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">Today, tomorrow and beyond.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">~Irish Blessing</span></span></div></div></div>Ever Green Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875223745416470064noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4032909619129656547.post-104552420042465002011-02-27T19:43:00.003+05:302011-02-28T15:09:13.528+05:30Red X-Prs....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a Conventional Red Rose to make your day!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A smiley, monkey- faced, Panzy showing off similar Red -o-Black Hues<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Dazzling Dahlia ....Get set to Bloom!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Triple Delights</td></tr>
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Yeh, I know I have gone a wee-bit, over the top with this RED X-PRESS, but what to do,<br />
RED is such a bright, promising n happy colour and just perfect for heralding Spring in our gardens and our lives.<br />
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<a href="http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/">My entry for Today's Flower # 133</a><br />
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The Hot, the Loud n the Proud Meme # 12 hosted by <a href="http://aplantfanatic.blogspot.com/">A Plant Fanatic in Hawai</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Wishing all a Happy Spring Season ahead...</span></td></tr>
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