Apt flora pic from your point of view, Anurag. Tempting piece of land. Spend time sitting / walking / exploring / ... Regards. Dinesh
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Balkar Singh <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice Scene Anurag Ji > > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Anurag Sharma <anurag.op...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thank you sir and yes, the place is indeed enchanting. >> >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Prashant Awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Beautiful Landscape. Nice composition. >>> >>> Last year i trekked in same region for a week and i feel like visiting >>> this Chikmagalur region again and again. Thanks Anurag ji... >>> Regards >>> Prashant >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Agreeing to all the comments posted earlier. >>>> Very nice Landscape picture. >>>> >>>> Dr Satish Phadke >>>> >>>> On 31 December 2014 at 13:08, Anurag Sharma <anurag.op...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thank you Dr. Gurcharan and Garg sir. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:35 AM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, Anurag ji. >>>>>> Brought back beautiful memories of my last year trip to these >>>>>> mountains. Alas! I had enough time to process & post my photographs. >>>>>> At efloraofindia, you are a star now with your beautiful photography >>>>>> & wonderful posts of these enchanting journeys. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 31 December 2014 at 00:22, Anurag Sharma <anurag.op...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8QjGrPm6Q_Q/VKLzqHyCDPI/AAAAAAAAAqI/MGn50y9WWDc/s1600/Sholas.jpg> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I had restricted to myself to clicking photographs of ornamental >>>>>>> plants and botanical garden trees etc. until June this year when one of >>>>>>> my >>>>>>> good friends suggested that I start visiting the forests nearby >>>>>>> Bangalore. >>>>>>> Soon after this came a visit to Coorg where unfortunately I did not get >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> see much due to heavy rains in the area. However, a month later, while >>>>>>> talking to a fellow member on India Flora (Facebook) I discovered that >>>>>>> he >>>>>>> was the deputy conservator of forests in the Chikamagalur area of >>>>>>> Western >>>>>>> Ghats. He cordially invited me to Chikamagalur and even offered to let >>>>>>> my >>>>>>> friends and me use his car to travel around. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On the first day, while exploring the beautiful and scenic ghat >>>>>>> section, a car pulled up and a man stepped out and asked us what we were >>>>>>> doing. We told him that we were looking for plants, butterflies, >>>>>>> amphibians >>>>>>> and odonates to which he replied that he owned land in the mountains and >>>>>>> gave us permission to enter the area. We visited his estate and >>>>>>> discovered >>>>>>> to our joy that his 'estate' actually consisted of grasslands and >>>>>>> forests! >>>>>>> We climbed into the mountains and found a nice spot to relax and enjoy >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> serenity of nature. It was here that the attached photo was taken, which >>>>>>> perfectly describes the setting of the place where we spent the next >>>>>>> hour >>>>>>> at. Endless grasslands, slowly descending clouds and tens of thousands >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> *Strobilanthes* sp. forming the bulk of the mountain slopes, this >>>>>>> overwhelming feeling that nature's beauty gave us caused such a longing >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> revisit the Western Ghats that two days later while sitting in a >>>>>>> Chemistry >>>>>>> class in college, my friend and I decided that come what may, we would >>>>>>> attempt to visit some part of the Western Ghats each and every month! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This place and the memory that this photo evokes is definitely one >>>>>>> of the reasons that drives me to continue exploring forests as much as I >>>>>>> can. 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