The door is clearly having a field day 😀 But I am really curious – what were they thinking? Any guesses? Wilder the better 😉
For Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge
COB: Trespassers will be Prosecuted?
Category: Trees
Colors of Spring
It’s official – winter is over. It came back for one last thunderstorm, a shower of hailstones, forcing us to scramble for the packed up and tucked away woollies. A bummer. But may as well make hay while the sun doesn’t shine for once it does – it’s going to be hot, hotter and hottest. Stepping out, one is likely to get broiled, roasted and grilled in no time at all. Ah well, que sera sera. In the meanwhile, I look around me and marvel at Mother Nature’s way of celebrating the departure of the winter chill and the arrival of warm brighter days. Care to have a look?
Baring heart and soul, she squeezes out red blooms – check out the tips of her outspread branches.
She colors the world green
Yellow and orange
And pink!
There’s even a dash of pink right outside my window 🙂
Peeping out from behind every building, every hoarding, every tree are these cotton tree (Bombax celba) flowers. If you are in Delhi, all you have to do is look up.
A splash of purple on the way to office.
In about a month’s time, taking cue from the summer sun she will wear the colors of the sun – watch this space for more :)
Here’s wishing you all a wonderful, colorful and joyous Holi – the Hindu festival of colors. The festival celebrates the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, departure of winter, thanksgiving for a good harvest, a time to forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships.
Linked to Becca’s Sunday Trees – 278
WPC: While I was Walking
Would you like to take a walk with me? Come along then, the weather is just perfect!
Would you like a stroll through the woods?
Or perhaps by the mighty Ganges?
But to get the real feel, let’s walk the streets
And it wasn’t even Sunday 😀
Tree on a water tanker, albeit a broken down one. Growing on just air and water. Amazing where a tree can grow right?
I had to come back for a second closer look. Almost fooled us (and you) there 😉
OMG I wonder if the workers are expected to walk up the ramp? I hope not…
This one is rather special for it is one the rare photographs my son has deigned to share with us (after being prompted of course) on his first trip alone to an unfamiliar city.
I don’t usually link to multiple challenges but I am rather tired after all that walking 😉 So I am linking to Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge The Road Taken and Cee’s Which Way Challenge. And since all good things come in threes – Becca’s Sunday Trees – 277.
Appreciate your company on this stroll around the country – hope you aren’t too tired to leave me a note 😉
The Bedecked One
Isn’t she gorgeous? Wondering why I call her the ‘bedecked’ one?
Notice the cummerbund?
And she’s wearing bangles too! A bit creepy no doubt but then each to their choice – who am I to judge, right?
For Becca’s Sunday Trees – 276
Thanks for visiting – do let me know what you think of the jewelry 😀
Have a great day.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Bindi Tree
In India, trees are very much revered and it is a common sight to see the Banyan tree or the Bodhi tree entwined with red strings. But this particular tree covered with bindis is a rare sight and one that I have never seen before. This tree stands outside the Koteshawar temple, Kutch in Gujarat. The temple overlooks the Arabian Sea and is the western-most Shiva temple of India.
Bindis are traditionally red in color and round in shape. Married women wear them on the center of the forehead as a symbol of their marital status. Married women put a bindi on this tree to ensure the long life of her husband. I believe glass bangles are also offered to the tree. I hope to see it for myself one of these days, until then the photo will have to do 🙂
For Becca’s Sunday Trees – 274
CFFC: Crawl or Fly
Cee’s fun foto challenge this week (I am determined not to be late!) is all about Crawling or Flying.
So let’s see what I managed to dig out this week. 😉
Crawling through the limestone caves.
A truck inching its way on to a ferry
I just love this tractor which haunts our campus. There’s something about it – the shiny bright blue contrasting with the rusty trailer as it rumbles sedately lugging something or the other or as it waits patiently to be loaded…no? Don’t much care for it?
I am sure you would enjoy a leisurely shikara ride on the picturesque Dal lake, Srinagar. Hmm perhaps I have shared this photo before – time to fly 😉
Flying banners decorate the road
More colorful flags flying in the wind (and the green T-shirt guy’s hair too 😀
I saved this one for the last. Doesn’t the tree look as if she is going to leg it any moment?
Thanks for visiting and for letting me know your favorite 🙂
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WPC: Shadows
It’s a double Weekly Photo Challenge bonanza this week – after solitude it’s time for some shadows. I managed only a couple:
Yep this is at the Rock Gardens in Chandigarh. I have to confess I didn’t mean to capture the shadows. I was too busy focusing on the artificial tree 😀 Anyhow I fooled around a bit with the photo to highlight the shadow of the railings – they look cool don’t they?
This one I took because of the shadows.
So which one do you like better?
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Blending In
Doesn’t she look as if she is trying to blend in with her surroundings? Or perhaps Nek Chand arranged his sculptors to suit her woody nature.
For Becca’s Sunday Trees 273
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