Really amazing picture Rawat ji. Thanks for sharing.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for sharing this amazing picture.... > Now grasses will save water :) > Pankaj > > > On Thursday, 24 January 2013 16:45:19 UTC+8, D.S Rawat wrote: >> >> Low temperature is harsh for human life in high altitudes of the >> Himalaya. But plants are adapted to survive and flourish there. As seen >> here in this picture taken at an altitude of 3800m above sea level near >> Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand, this grass (*Poa* sp.) growing near a >> stream is ice-cased in night. But in the mid day ice will melt and it will >> live joyfully in this routine of freezing and thawing in entire autumn till >> the arrival of coldest season when a thick blanket of snow will cover it >> permanently up to springs. >> >> DSRawat Pantnagar >> > -- > > > > --
