A short visit to botanical garden

Last week I had an unplanned visit to a botanical garden. Though the summer is already gone in this part of the world the garden was nonetheless very green and perfect for relaxing walk. The garden holds a large and varied collection of trees and shrubs planted in a systematic fashion after plant families. Also there are two green houses The Palm House from 1868 and The Victoria House from 1876 present exotic plants from other parts of the world.

The buildings are surrounded by lush green trees

Diphylleia cymosa

One of the many walkways

A grand tree!

Rock garden

Another view

Remains from the season

Garden landscape

Garden landscape 2

Ageing

Flowers from well maintained greenhouses.

I heard about the giant waterlillies from amazon which I missed unfortunately.

I could not spend a lot of time exploring garden and taking more diverse and detailed images still I decided to share my experience with you all for Jo’s Monday walk.

I hope you like this short walk. Next year I shall plan a thorough visit.

 

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Photo Prompt – Close up

Tuesday photo prompt – Close up 

Sunday Trees

Inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees

अश्क

अश्कों का कोई रंग नहीं होता

ये तो खून है,

जो कभी गालों पे,

कभी आँखों में और

कभी हथेलिओं पे

दिखाई देता है।।

-रुपाली

Cacophony

Sound is neither cacophony nor symphony.

It’s the state of mind what defines it.

Rupali

Weekend 60: Eerie shots

This last week it was difficult to spend time on blog and social media in general due to work and 2 days of travelling. I got to travel by train both ways. The landscape was picturesque but it varied a lot in different parts as we travelled from sea level to 1222 m above sea level. I took many pictures but didn’t get time to see them before today 🙂

The first batch of photos contains the eerie ones.

I wonder how does it look in dark days of winter 😀

Nurturing Thursday: Move forward

Not every event/moment/person in our life turned up the way we expected but this does not define us. Let us try not have any grudges. In doing so we cure ourselves easily and move forward. Accept it and forget it.

Maturity is learning to walk away from poeple and situations that threatens your peace of mind, self respect, values moral and self worth~Unknown

This post is inspired by Becca’s Nurturing Thursday

 

Wonderful Western-Ghats in monsoon!

Western Ghats

Sunrise over the Charles bridge in Prague

Charles Bridge is a 14th century bridge linking the two sides of Prague, across the Vltava river. One fine morning in April we decided to take an early morning walk to watch sunrise over the famous Charles bridge.

The shot was taken at 5:29 am from the hotel window.

The show begins!

Take the stairs!

Looking aound!

The castle!

People from our tribe!

Oops the show ends!

The last image was taken at 5:55.

This post is inspired by Jo’s Monday Walk theme.

Roman patterns

For this week’s lens-artists-photo-challenge, I am presenting ancient roman patterns from Rome Italy.