Thanks everyone for encouragement for my next VoF trek, I am hopeful that this time I would be able to observe it closely and perhaps click it too.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Nice experience and nice write up. > Next time go close to flower and smell it without touching it. You can > actually feel the fragrance even 1m away from the actual plant. It is > magical and it is very soothing. Somewhere in Vedas its written that offer > one flower of Brahma Kamal to god is equivalent to offering 1000 normal > fragrant flowers and thats one of the reason why this flower is locally > threatened. Its totally extinct from Badrinath area but still it can be > found on sale around the temple. > Best wishes for next trip. Around Hemkunt, I think you can find 4 species > of Saussurea there.... > Pankaj > > > > > > On Thursday, 3 January 2013 03:10:01 UTC+8, matherana.rajeshii 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/matherana.rajeshii> >> https://www.facebook.com/**groups/indianflora/<https://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/> >> > -- > > > > -- Regards Rajesh Sachdev https://www.facebook.com/matherana.rajeshii https://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/ --
