Thanks, Anurag ji. Brought back beautiful memories of my last year trip to these mountains. Alas! I had enough time to process & post my photographs. At efloraofindia, you are a star now with your beautiful photography & wonderful posts of these enchanting journeys.
On 31 December 2014 at 00:22, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8QjGrPm6Q_Q/VKLzqHyCDPI/AAAAAAAAAqI/MGn50y9WWDc/s1600/Sholas.jpg> > > I had restricted to myself to clicking photographs of ornamental plants > and botanical garden trees etc. until June this year when one of my good > friends suggested that I start visiting the forests nearby Bangalore. Soon > after this came a visit to Coorg where unfortunately I did not get to see > much due to heavy rains in the area. However, a month later, while talking > to a fellow member on India Flora (Facebook) I discovered that he was the > deputy conservator of forests in the Chikamagalur area of Western Ghats. He > cordially invited me to Chikamagalur and even offered to let my friends and > me use his car to travel around. > > On the first day, while exploring the beautiful and scenic ghat section, a > car pulled up and a man stepped out and asked us what we were doing. We > told him that we were looking for plants, butterflies, amphibians and > odonates to which he replied that he owned land in the mountains and gave > us permission to enter the area. We visited his estate and discovered to > our joy that his 'estate' actually consisted of grasslands and forests! We > climbed into the mountains and found a nice spot to relax and enjoy the > serenity of nature. It was here that the attached photo was taken, which > perfectly describes the setting of the place where we spent the next hour > at. Endless grasslands, slowly descending clouds and tens of thousands of > *Strobilanthes* sp. forming the bulk of the mountain slopes, this > overwhelming feeling that nature's beauty gave us caused such a longing to > revisit the Western Ghats that two days later while sitting in a Chemistry > class in college, my friend and I decided that come what may, we would > attempt to visit some part of the Western Ghats each and every month! > > This place and the memory that this photo evokes is definitely one of the > reasons that drives me to continue exploring forests as much as I can. I > have only just started out, but hopefully will discover many other places > that will only serve to increase my love for nature and plants! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
