Taken one March 29, 2014 at Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe.
DAILY PHOTO: Guinea Fowl in the Garden
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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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DAILY PHOTO: Roses are Red… and a Bunch of Other Colors
Taken on January 26, 2014 at Lal Bagh Gardens
Taken at the 2014 Republic Day Flower Show in Bangalore.
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DAILY PHOTO: Flower Fountain
Taken on January 26, 2014 at Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore.
This looks like a waterless fountain, a fountain bursting with flowers.
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DAILY PHOTO: Pink Coxcomb
Taken January 26, 2014 at Lal Bagh Gardens.
There were many beautiful coxcombs at the 2014 Republic Day Flower Show, but this one looked eerily like a brain.
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DAILY PHOTO: Garden of Fatehpur Sikri
Taken October 13, 2013 at Fatehpur Sikri.
Red sandstone dominates the scene at Fatehpur Sikri, a 16th century Mughal city near Agra. The architecture is beautiful, but the view can be a bit drab. There are two areas where this monotony of hue is broken. One is the white marble in the Tomb of Salim Chishti (as well as some decorative accent white marble on the mosque itself.) The other is this little garden which inserts a field of green and rose-red into the mix.
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DAILY PHOTO: Garden Overlook
Taken September 21, 2013 in Nandi Hills, India.
This garden sits behind a little inn at the top of Nandi Hills. In the background is a town and farmland as seen from the hilltop.
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DAILY PHOTO: Jardín Sagrado
Taken in July 2010 in Cusco, Peru.
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