Long live "the story tellers group" Very useful photographs and a great story. Thanks Nabha ji
-- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: > Nabhaji > YOU ARE A GREAT STORY TELLER > YOU MADE E SHIVER TOO. > NICE CAPTURES AND MEMORIES > MADHURI > > --- On *Sun, 23/1/11, Na Bha <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Na Bha <[email protected]> > Subject: [efloraofindia:60905] Flora picture of the Year 2010- Nalini Bhat > (Na Bha) > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, 23 January, 2011, 5:02 AM > > > Hallo, > here come my Flora pictures of the Year 2010, > Floralis Gene'rica-100_5904 two fotos. > > taken on 28. March 2010 at about 11:00 Hrs. in a park near Buenos Aires. > The argentine architect Eduardo Catalano presented it to the City Buenos > Aires in 2002. According to Catalano this flower "is a synthesis of all > the flowers and is both a hope that is reborn every day to open." It is a > metal flower, called Floralis Gene'rica. > It opens in the morning and closes at sunset, there is an electrical system > that automatically opens and closes the petals depending on the time of the > day. At night the flower closes emanating from inside a red glow and rebirth > open in the morning the next day. This mechanism also closes the flower if > strong winds blow. (Wiki) > I would have liked to stay there the whole day and in the nightto watch the > flower closing and the red glow. > > For more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floralis_Generica > > > The next two Fotos are Cap Horn Albatross. They were taken on 22. March > 2010, 8:33 hrs. We visited Chile, started our cruis in Val Paraiso, all the > way southwards upto cap horn, thru Beagle Channel, Magellan Channel and then > northwards to Buenos Aires. Cape Horn is the southmost point of south > america. Before Panama Channal was opened in 1914 ships carrying trade > around the world had to sail around the Cape Horn and the passage was and > is dangarous. Strong winds, strong currents and icebergs, coming from > Antarktis. > At 8:30 on 22. March 2010 it was extremely cold, extremely windy and the > sea was very rough. Very few people were on the deck, most people preffered > to watch the "Cap Horn Albatross Monument" from the warm and cosy panorama > deck. As you see in the foto, there was not much to see because of the fog. > I was thinking of Ernest Shackleton all the time. I had read about his > endurance-expedition, his foot-march crossing the South Georgia > Island, without sleep, without food, without a map, climbilg over 900 meters > and sliding down to the otherside to a whaling station to get help for his > people strandes on the elefant island. I had read about his expedition > sitting near a fireplace and I was shivering. The cold on the deck was > nothing as compared to what Shackleton and his crew had experienced. > The captain read the beautiful verse by Sara Vial, > I, the albatross that awaits for you at the end of the world... > I, the forgotten soul of the sailors lost that crossed Cape Horn from all > the seas of the world. > But die they did not in the fierce waves, > for today towards eternity in my wings they soar > in the last crevice of the Antarctic winds > *Sara Vial > Dec - 1992* > People standing on the deck were silent, noone spoke a word or even clicked > a foto. There was holy atmosphere, no wonder. > The "Cap Horn Albatross Monument" stands on the southern point of the > Hermite Islands in the Archipelago Terra del Fuego (Land of Fire), 1400 feet > above the sea. It consists of two triangular bronze halves and from a > certain point on the northside, the sculpture looks like a flying Albatross. > The sculpture, the work of the Chilean sculptor Jose Balcells, was > dedicated on December 5, 1992 and stands in the memory of all those who lost > their lives at the Horn. The Vers of Sara Vial is carved on a nearby granite > marker. On the island there is a navy station of Chile. > > I am shivering while writing these lines, but I am very happy to have > visited one of the "ends of the world". What else can be my Foto of the year > 2010. > Regards > Nalini > > > > >
