A khatta-meetha take on life around me through my presbiopic eyes!
After a prolonged Monsoon in Pune, rains are just about retreating. Morning walks call for a light jacket as the weather is chilly. The Tekdi offers wonderful views.. well worth the effort of waking up early.
This post is part of Parul‘s ThursdayTreeLove blog hop.
Here are spectacular doorways from Arles in France. Spectacular due to the wonderful floral vines grown along the door.
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This post is part of Parul‘s ThursdayTreeLove bloghop.
Here is a beautiful Banyan tree that lives in Bangalore.
I know the city must have many grand old Banyans, but this especially interested me as it grows inside a hotel.
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This post is part of Parul‘s ThursdayTreeLove blog hop.
Today I have yet another tree from my Travels.
A beautiful tree that .. hold your breath… more than 400 years old!
Its the Robinia pseudoacacia that has its home in Paris at the Square Rene Viviani.
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This post is part of Parul‘s ThursdayTreeLove blog hop.
Just like us humans, I think plants too have relatives as in ‘Cousins’ .. I always refer to plants that belong to the same Genus but different specific epithets as being related as ‘Cousins’!
Lets meet the Albizia amara today.. this one lives on the Vetal Tekdi in Pune.
This post is part of Parul‘s ThursdayTreeLove blog hop.
A stately tree that grows on Pune hills and the plains around the city as well.
I saw many trees in full bloom in the Maval area all buzzing with lots of bees.
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A post on the usual red flowered Seemal to follow the yellow bombax!!
Here is the Silk Cotton Tree/Shyamali aka Bombax ceiba of the Malvaceae family.
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This post is not about tree plantation rather about a drive that I went on just to see an Bombax ceiba with yellow flowers.
Yes,, yellow and not red/pink.
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Chocolate or cocoa is omnipresent in our lives. We use to as a gift or a treat or a comfort food or to reward ourselves or on a cheat day of a diet!
It is made from the fruit of the Theobroma cacao trees. Though an introduced speices in India it is widely cultivated in the state of Kerala.
Here are its flowers. You can read the entire post here.
