| First Lichi of the Year... |
[May. 8th, 2008|06:15 am] |
The Lichi (it is spelt in many ways..the name originates in the Chinese language) is one of my favourites.
Yesterday, KM got the first fruit of the season (which is all too short.)
YUMMMM. |
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| The last two days on the Serengeti....looong post with LOTS of pics.... |
[Aug. 16th, 2007|05:09 pm] |
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It's been really hectic, but I have finally found the time...it's going to be a long post,compressing two days at the Serengeti, with lots of photos (there will be one lot more with pics from Lake Manyara, with the TREE-CLIMBING LIONS)
Here's a sunrise over the Serengeti plains...
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) anushsh has made this his screensaver....so this is dedicated to him!
Our safari started on a high note, with this sighting of a CHEETAH, which had just killed a gazelle and was dragging it to a good place for the feast....
(Remember, I said that none of my cheetah shots are close-up or good!)
Another "typical" shot that I got was the Masai, walking for miles in the vast landscape, amongst the eternal grasses of the Serengeti...
( lots of pictures under the cut; you must have a lot of interest in wildlife, and lots of time..othwrwise, skip! )
I will wind up the Serengeti pictures with this delta image of the vulture in flight:
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| Images from JP Nagar Reserve Forest |
[May. 12th, 2007|05:05 pm] |
Today's birding was not of the best; managed to get a shot of this Purple-Rumped Sunbird with a little insect in its mouth:
There were these two un-id'd fruits..No, an anonymous reader informs me that this is the "Karvanda" fruit:
The same reader, and Madhusmita Dutta who took the JLRNTP earlier than I did, tell me that this one is a dried Sitaphal (custard apple) (though it did appear very much smaller than a custard apple to ME):
and this frond, waving in the breeze, waiting to disperse its seeds:
But most of all, I loved this peaceful scene:
Such a scene of togetherness and communion with Nature...I was just wishing that KM and I are like this....and just then, the lady pulled out a mobile, and yakked steadily into it for the rest of the time that I could see them! |
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| Garden Flora--I am in the mood for posting pictures..with a vengeance! |
[Jan. 25th, 2007|08:37 pm] |
As I tried using the Tamron lens on my walks in LA, I snapped many pictures of garden flowers; I realize that it seems rather "infra-dig" (beneath one's dignity, in a very Indian idiom!) to post pictures of garden flowers...but I have no dignity, being still a photographer who is an L board (another Indian idiom for someone who is learning )...so I am going to post some pictures of flowers...
Here's the bird of Paradise, which I thought I had posted on earlier post but apparently did not:
( And here are some more pictures of flowers )
Well, that's my floral tour, and I will use it to cheer myself up every now and then! |
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