There is an ironic story of my travel to VoF. All the time, I wanted to take many pics, but I was skeptic that my batteries will go off and then my memory card will get full, so I was concentrating more on Orchids. To my surprise, when I returned back to Govind Ghat and then returned to Badrinath, I then realised that I already had a spare battery and a spare 2GB card in one of the small zippers in my bag.
To add to the irony, many of my files got corrupted while transferring them to a PC at the base camp of one of our colleagues :(( [Problem was in the PC itself]. I must have taken 200 pics of the rarest close sighting of the Himalayan Monal, of which less than 20 remained uncorrupted!!! But surely although I was not well both physically and mentally, I did travel all the way and visited both VoF, Hemkunt Sahib, Badrinath, Mandal, Tunganath and came back....plants kept me going and so did the reasons why I went !! I succeeded for plants, but for others, I failed and ultimately became an atheist. Pankaj On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Captured on 12/8/10 during the trek from Ghangaria (around 11,000 ft.) to > Valley of Flowers (around 12500 ft.). > > Don’t miss it in 2011. > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them > for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Google e-group- > Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1475 > members & 57,000 messages on 16/12/10 & with a database of around 4400 > species on 30/11/10) > > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
