Purple Rhododendrons

Purple Rhododendrons

I saw these Rhododendrons in Leeds and I had to stand back and take notice. There were two reasons for this. One, I love Himalayan flowers and these Rhododendrons reminded me of the treks I have done. Two, I had never seen a purple one before! I have seen red Rhododendrons, even white and their variations but never purple.

When I shared the pictures with my colleagues, one of them came running to me and told me, "How did you manage to make the Rhododendrons purple? Aren't they red? I have never seen a purple one." Now that is something because he belongs to Uttrakhand and has lived for considerable time in the hills.

But then in Leeds these purple Rhododendrons were growing with glee!

Oh! and VJ shared his pictures of Oxford with me and take my words for it, they are brilliant.

Lazy Sunday Photo- Mountain Flowers

I must say I am crazy about flowers. Well, I am used to the ones which we can find in the city. But when we go trekking I try to click every new flower that I see. The flower images below are from our trek to Kuari Pass.

Flowers from the Mountain- Blue iris

I do know the name of this flower (the blue Iris) but unfortunately I am really not good with the names of the other beauties that I see.

Mountain Flowers

But as I said I bend down every time I see a new flower and take a picture.

Blue Flowers from the Mountains

One week into the semester and I already feel desperate to travel! Though February is not a good time for flowers really.

Lazy Sunday Photo- Flower from Sikkim

Flower (Taken in Sikkim)

Long time since I posted a picture of a flower. I just love flowers. I know I have a very dull approach to clicking a flower, but I still like these pictures!

Time to take a Short Break, Again!

It is the time to take a short break, again! Would be back by Monday. No going very far away but still to the hills.

Lazy Sunday Photos- Flowers on the Street, Bangalore

Flowers from Spiti

The semester has started and it already feels like I have been hit by a bus. Just worried that this blog will come to a stand still. So, to keep it going here are flowers from Spiti. And no, I do not know what they are called.

Lazy Sunday Photo- Flowers

Flowers on the Roadside- Bangalore

Till Friday

No, no I have not given up on blogging nor on reading blogs. But till Friday, everything is else on hold and I have to finish some work. After that I should be back in full force. And in second week of May , I will take a short break. Oh! how I am looking forward to it.

Flowers being sold on the Street: Bangalore

From a bunch in a road side florist shop in Noida

Yellow:Some flowers, Some Fruits

Still hard at work. So, just to keep the blog going here are some flowers and fruits for you. I do not post too many flower photos on my blog but I am a huge fan of flowers.

Colorful Flowers and a Partial Rainbow from Bangalore!

I have been in Bangalore for past few days (Sesha belongs to Bangalore) and I never thought I would take a break from blogging. In this IT city our home was (actually Sesha's parent's home) without a net connection as soon as we landed. Only today we got it back. So here I am showing you some stuff that I photographed.

Flowers from Streets of Bangalore

I love the colors of the flowers I see on the streets, it is not so colorful in Delhi. On the flip side, CNG has made Delhi a lot more liveable, here it is getting too crowded for the size of the roads it has.

Such a Riot of Colorful Flowers

I requested all the ladies selling flowers to let me take a photograph, and they gladly did but I could not gather the nerve to ask if I could include them in the pictures too.

Shades of Oragne: Flowers from Streetside, Bangalore, India

White Flowers

What striking colors! Don't you agree?

A Partial Rainbow in Bangalore

Finally, there was a rainbow (OK, so what even if it was partial?) and I had a camera. I know the surroundings are bleak but the rainbow does not give a damn and neither do I. There were two occasssions when the rainbow had come out in Gurgaon and once I did not had the camera. The next time I didn't notice it at all. And later people told me that there was a rainbow only after it had vanished.

Finally everything worked. I had the camera, there was a rainbow and we were in the car going somewhere. We stopped for petrol and I immediately came out and took pictures and here they are!

Some More Pictures From Bangalore

When I was in Bangalore in the first week of November, the weather was like what you can see above and I had a nice time going around with my camera.

Here are some more flowers from Bangalore, but don't ask me what they are called.

This, I was told are coffee beans! Had never seen it before.

This is a fruit that in my part of the globe is known as 'Chiku.'

A street side shop that caught my fancy but I was not in a mood closer and ask for permission from the lady sitting there to take the photo.

The roads of Bangalore, and this one is good, because it has no pot holes in the middle of the road.

Small coconuts kept on a windowsill and saying Bye Bye (below) this photo was clicked at the airport.

I can Understand Why Bangalore was Called the Garden City

I have been for a few days in Bangalore and I clicked all the lovely flowers, a few coconut trees and a faboulous sunset around the housing complex I am staying. It has been raining on and often and flowers seem to just grow out of their own free will.

Though Bangalore in general has been changing , so much traffic, narrow roads, pollution and washed away roads are the things that we had to negotiate if we went out of the house. I have uploaded a few of my pretty photographs only.

Sympathy White Lily (First Photo) and Small Yellow Flowers

Such a Small Rose Bud

Frangipani

Flowers, Tress and a Bit of Sky

Coconuts (above) and Yellow Hibiscus (below)

A Glorious Sunset