I envy you! ak On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 > <formpeja...@yahoo.com>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 <nabha-megh...@gmx.de>* wrote: >> >> >> From: Na Bha <nabha-megh...@gmx.de> >> Subject: [efloraofindia:60905] Flora picture of the Year 2010- Nalini Bhat >> (Na Bha) >> To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- Anand Kumar Bhatt A-59, B.S.F.Colony, Airport Road Gwalior. 474 005. Tele: 0751-247 2233. Mobile 0 94253 09780. My blogsite is at: http://anandkbhatt.blogspot.com (A NEW BLOG HAS BEEN ADDED ON 3 SEPT 2010.) And the photo site: www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ten most common surnames of Indians: Singh, Kumar, Sharma, Patel, Shah, Lal, Gupta, Bhat, Rao, Reddy. Cheers!
