Thanks, Rajesh ji. It's great that you completed the trek despite your poor health. Your story is really great & touching. I now how the people really feel after seeing 'Brahma Kamal'. It's akin to seeing the God itself for a moment.
On 3 January 2013 00:40, Rajesh Sachdev <[email protected]>wrote: > There are few excursions or trips designed to target particular species, > let it be birds, butterflies or flora. There is one or more then one > species that are in wishlist of such excursions and without which > those excursions remain incomplete. When I was designing the Valley of > Flowers trip for the joint group of eFI and Indian Flora , I had one such > species in my mind as target. And that is not only me most of people who > visit VoF have such feeling that they must see that flower. The flower is > Brahma Kamal. > > Four months of desperation, I realised that I am medically unfit for VoF. > Viral fever and lose of weight put me in week category and doctor declared > me unfit for such tough trek. But there were reasons for me to still do it, > JUST DO IT. (a) Commitment to 20+ participants and (b) willingness to see > my target flower. > > On the day one while trekking up from Govind Ghat to Ghanghariya my health > collapsed. The trek, for good 13 Kms and uphill, was full of flowers on > both sides and I kept on ignoring. Just because my mind was not > concentrating on them but on my collapsing health. Day 2 was fine > and comparatively better. Thanks to Smita Raskar for supporting me and > offering me tablets etc. Day 3 was suppose to be for Hemkund Saheb, the > only place where I could have seen Brahmakamal. And on this day again I > started feeling uncomfortable. I somehow managed to reach to point from > where I could see a flower or two and click them using the maximum zoom > from my digital camera. Very blur and dull pic, I could secure. Today, > when I have redesigned the VoF tour (in fact 2 tours in June & in August) , > that sense of incompleteness is chasing me. That sense is asking me to go > and click your beloved flower, more closely and sharply. With god's > blessing today I have better camera and I wish and pray to my god that " > Waheguru ji, give me strength and willpower to complete my mission and > photograph my beloved flower . The flower that has Shri Hemkund Saheb in > the background and snow clad mountain on either side". > > With this wish, I am presenting my flora (remote) picture of the year 2012 > for my beloved Brahma Kamal > > -- > Regards > Rajesh Sachdev > https://www.facebook.com/matherana.rajeshii > https://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/ > > -- > > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 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 Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2030 members & 1,42,000 messages on 31/12/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
