Rajesh ji Nice story associated with a prized catch. I have added this to Flora Picture 2012<http://indiantreepix.blogspot.in/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1> Dr Satish Phadke
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Rajesh Sachdev <[email protected] > wrote: > Thanks everyone for encouragement for my next VoF trek, I am hopeful that > this time I would be able to observe it closely and perhaps click it too. > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Nice experience and nice write up. >> Next time go close to flower and smell it without touching it. You can >> actually feel the fragrance even 1m away from the actual plant. It is >> magical and it is very soothing. Somewhere in Vedas its written that offer >> one flower of Brahma Kamal to god is equivalent to offering 1000 normal >> fragrant flowers and thats one of the reason why this flower is locally >> threatened. Its totally extinct from Badrinath area but still it can be >> found on sale around the temple. >> Best wishes for next trip. Around Hemkunt, I think you can find 4 species >> of Saussurea there.... >> Pankaj >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, 3 January 2013 03:10:01 UTC+8, matherana.rajeshii wrote: >>> >>> There are few excursions or trips designed to target particular species, >>> let it be birds, butterflies or flora. There is one or more then one >>> species that are in wishlist of such excursions and without **which >>> those excursions remain incomplete. When I was designing the Valley of >>> Flowers trip for the joint group of eFI and Indian Flora , I had one such >>> species in my mind as target. And that is not only me most of people who >>> visit VoF have such feeling that they must see that flower. The flower is >>> Brahma Kamal. >>> >>> Four months of desperation, I realised that I am medically unfit for >>> VoF. Viral fever and lose of weight put me in week category and doctor >>> declared me unfit for such tough trek. But there were reasons for me to >>> still do it, JUST DO IT. (a) Commitment to 20+ participants and (b) >>> willingness to see my target flower. >>> >>> On the day one while trekking up from Govind Ghat to Ghanghariya my >>> health collapsed. The trek, for good 13 Kms and uphill, was full of flowers >>> on both sides and I kept on ignoring. Just because my mind was not >>> concentrating on them but on my collapsing health. Day 2 was fine >>> and comparatively better. Thanks to Smita Raskar for supporting me and >>> offering me tablets etc. Day 3 was suppose to be for Hemkund Saheb, the >>> only place where I could have seen Brahmakamal. And on this day again I >>> started feeling uncomfortable. I somehow managed to reach to point from >>> where I could see a flower or two and click them using the maximum zoom >>> from my digital camera. Very blur and dull pic, I could secure. Today, >>> when I have redesigned the VoF tour (in fact 2 tours in June & in August) , >>> that sense of incompleteness is chasing me. That sense is asking me to go >>> and click your beloved flower, more closely and sharply. With god's >>> blessing today I have better camera and I wish and pray to my god that " >>> Waheguru ji, give me strength and willpower to complete my mission and >>> photograph my beloved flower . The flower that has Shri Hemkund Saheb in >>> the background and snow clad mountain on either side". >>> >>> With this wish, I am presenting my flora (remote) picture of the year >>> 2012 for my beloved Brahma Kamal >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> Rajesh Sachdev >>> https://www.facebook.com/**matherana.rajeshii<https://www.facebook.com/matherana.rajeshii> >>> https://www.facebook.com/**groups/indianflora/<https://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/> >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Regards > Rajesh Sachdev > https://www.facebook.com/matherana.rajeshii > https://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/ > > -- > > > > --
