Taken on July 7, 2014 in Munnar.
DAILY PHOTO: Thungbergia Mysorensis
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DAILY PHOTO: Flamingo Flower and Lady’s Eardrops
Taken on July 6, 2014 in Munnar.
Taken on July 6, 2014 in Munnar.
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DAILY PHOTO: Scene from the Keralan Backwaters
Taken on July 4, 2014 in Kerala.
My apologies for not posting in several days, I’ve been out getting some new photos from new places. Specifically, I’ve been in Kerala. Here is the first of several DAILY PHOTOs from Kerala. This one was taken from a houseboat on the Backwaters.
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DAILY PHOTO: Orange Flower
Taken in March of 2014 in Coorg.
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DAILY PHOTO: Bangalorean Trees
Taken April 27, 2014 in Cubbon Park.
Just as New Jersey’s state name has made it the butt of many a joke, Bangalore catches a lot of flack (both from residents and outsiders) for retaining the title of “Garden City” in the wake of the recent decade of unrestrained growth. (If anything tells one about present day Bangalore it’s that its size doubled in little more than a decade from almost five million to close to ten. Even under the best of governance that would result in a bit of chaos–re: and this is not the best of governance.)
That said, Bangalore has some awesome trees. (As I’ve mentioned, this results from the lack of proclivity to destroy everything that stands in one’s way or that presents the slightest bit of risk or inconvenience that is the modus operandi in the developed world.)
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DAILY PHOTO: Fruity Flower Sculptures
Taken January 26, 2014 at Lal Bagh Gardens.
So, I spent an hour Googling what the correct term was for a “sculpture” made out of flower blossoms. I’m sure there’s some lingo used amongst the Flower & Garden Show crowd (but you must need to know the secret handshake.)
However, after viewing the websites for many flower shows around the world from Philadelphia to Hong Kong, all I was able to learn is that–whatever they are–these examples from the Bangalore Republic Day 2014 Flower Show… well, they aren’t good. I hesitate to say this because someone may come back and say, “You monster, those [whatever they are] were constructed by children with Down Syndrome.”
If that is the case, I stand corrected and must say that those are the finest examples of [whatever they are] that I have ever seen made by children with Down Syndrome. I may also be showing my ignorance of Down Syndrome because perhaps children with Down Syndrome do ikebana like Rain Man counted match sticks–which is to say freakishly well.
The [whatever they are] just seem a little misshapen compared to those from, for example, the Hong Kong Flower Show. If the Hong Kong arrangements are the X-Box 360 version, these are clearly the mid-1980s Atari Pong version–not that there is anything wrong with that.
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DAILY PHOTO: Sittin’ on the Grass: or, I Don’t Get Art
Taken on March 10, 2014 in Bangalore.
This sculpture is on the MG Road Art Station promenade. If it were an actual guy, he’d be hauled off to the drunk tank, but because he’s stone, it’s art.
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DAILY PHOTO: Tree of Gold
Taken March 4, 2014 in Cubbon Park.
If you’ve ever seen the kung-fu movie Curse of the Golden Flower, there’s a scene in the Forbidden City where these vivid yellow flowers fill the central courtyard. Cubbon Park is a little like that right now.The tree responsible is called the Tree of Gold (Tabebuia Argentea.) It’s a transplant from South America and has a relatively short blossoming season during which its flowers are thick as can be.
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DAILY PHOTO: Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia Milii)
Taken on February 25, 2014 in Cubbon Park.
Like someone you may know, this plant is pretty at a distance but mean close up.
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DAILY PHOTO: Banana Flower
Taken in December of 2013 in Kuala Lumpur.
The other night, I ate banana flower for the first time–that I know of / remember–in two separate dishes. My wife and I were eating at the Oh! Calcutta on St. Mark’s Road in Bangalore, and we sampled banana flower croquettes as part of an assorted starter platter, and then I tasted some of my wife’s entrée, which was “dry cooked banana flower with coconut slivers.” The former was tasty, but so spicy that my undiscerning palate was incapable of learning anything about the flavor of this flower. The latter, much milder, dish tasted like a tasty take on mashed potatoes (again, to my unrefined palate.)
The picture above was taken in Malaysia, but banana flowers are present everywhere bananas grow (throughout much of tropics.)
Deceptively, the flower looks like it could be a deadly weapon–with its pointy, conical bloom.
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