Anand ji No need to envy, you can join the group. Just tell one or two nice plant related stories.
-- 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 Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Anand Kumar Bhatt <anandkbh...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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! >
