Taken in July of 2014 in Munnar
It doesn’t really show up well, but the tree in the center apparently swallowed and digested another tree. i.e. It encased a tree that died and rotted.
DAILY PHOTO: Killer Tree in the Mist
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DAILY PHOTO: Great Lawn of the Royal Botanical Gardens
DAILY PHOTO: Barren Trees in the Churchyard
Taken in December of 2014 in Szentendre, Hungary
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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: 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: Tiny Temple and Wind-blown Trees
Taken November 3, 2013 at Hampi.
These trees, raising like hands out of fresh, graveyard soil in front of this tiny temple really captured my imagination. It would probably be a better picture in low light, when the creepiness of the scene could really root around in your brain–but I took what I could get. There were a couple of places around Hampi that I thought would make the perfect setting for horror, and this was one. Another was the banyan tree that had many-colored satchets of rock tied to hang from the tree’s drooping roots.
This picture is taken on top of the hill that overlooks Virupaksha temple, not far from the Ganesh temple.
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