“monsoon”

Nepal·hills · flowers

Mountaineers loading their luggage on Dzo near the base of Langma La in Kangshung valley of Tibet. The Langma La Pass offers gorgeous views of Makalu, Everest, Lhotse Shar and Lhotse.

flowers

Come spring and regions with hotter climatic conditions are yellow with this flowering trees blooming the whole spring till the monsoons.

lake · flowers

Monsoon wonders from a Delhi pond eco-system. Pied Crested Cuckoos and Crows call in the backdrop, as these Water Lilies display their blooms to full effect, in the wetland created by us at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Ne…

flowers · wildlife

Kniphofia or Torch Lily is not a true lily, but makes excellent cut flowers and is loved by bees and birds alike.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Birds and bees love the nectar on our Kniphofia flowers in the western Himalaya! With a Grey-winged Blackbird calling, it is summer-monsoon time in our forests.

Uttarakhand·flowers · farmland

Cosmos flowers have run-wild from British times and continue to flower in the late autumn season, around the fields and open spaces at the Jabbarkhet Estate of wildfilmsindia in Landour-Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers · forest

These Dahlia flowers are competing with wild Himalayan flowers and cover by seeding and spreading themselves in the wild, as garden escapes dating back to British times.

Maharashtra·highway · flowers

A sea of cosmos next to the highway towards Pune in full bloom in early autumn. The flowers are intense orange and hence named Orange Cosmos or Klondike Cosmos because of the shape of the flower.

flowers

A pair of goat kids feed on corn leaves while people converse. Fresh cucumbers hang down from the creeper as insects sit on the leaves in Champawat. It is a town famous among tourist in Uttarakhand in India.

hills · river

Bistorta flowers and the Jallandhri Garh stream above Harsil: Himalayan autumn in brilliant colours.

flowers · monsoon

Lotus flower has a work of art within it, in the form of the formative seed pod developing within Pretty even as it dies, the lotus is something else! What a delicate lotus pink, with finer shades - No wonder the Kamal is India's national…

flowers

A garden slug seems full from its garden vegetable diet as it marauds in the soft mud in monsoon. Slimy skin with mud and its tentacles out in search of some more food? Notice the shiny mucous it leaves behind as it moves along.

flowers · industry

Workers with baskets on their back returning from tea garden after plucking tea leaves in Assam.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Garden Dahlias have been growing run-wild at our Jabbarkhet Estate in the Western Himalaya since the British era, when garden planted by the Brits. With summer, their rhizomes come alive, and dormant seeds start to sprout.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Bunches of run-wild Crocuses have taken over our early monsoon late summer hillsides at the Jabbarkhet botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia, overlooking the plains and the higher mountains of the Himalaya, as garden escapes that have got nat…

festival · flowers

The dancing troupe from Orissa perform Orissi( Classical dance form) on the festival of "Phool Wallon Ki Sair".

birds · flowers

The herald of Indian monsoons and the spectacular metallic purple sheen of the male Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus ) has worn off.

forest · flowers

This Kalij murgha visits among our Agapanthus lily garden in the western Himalaya. A Pheasant male pecks at undergrowth for buds, shoots and bugs: Kaleej margha at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

flowers · monsoon

Fresh bloom of Balsam breathing in the moist air of monsoon. An unidentified purple flower with thin stalks growing among reeds. A cluster of Vinca flowers in purple thriving among garden grasses at our wilderness Orchard.

flowers

A Garden Orb Weaver spider sits on a flower leaf unfazed by the singing wasp hovering around it. A white hairy caterpillar nibbling on the fresh shoots of a garden flower. A couple of Wandering Glider dragonfly perched on small dry twigs.

Kerala·wildlife · flowers

The panther or leopard is not a common sight in the Nilgiris and Western Ghats mountains around Munnar in Kerala.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

In monsoon profusion, this Gladiolus in pink blooms as a garden-escape run-wild at the wildfilmsindia Motidhar estate at Pari Tibba - the Fairy hill around Mussoorie, among the Agapanthus flower fields.

flowers

An inflorescence of Rangoon creeper mid bloom, pink flowers and becoming a circular shape. This flower is a popular creeper in New Delhi. The bright blooms are seen in the monsoon season.

Uttarakhand·flowers

The white mystery flower was captured on WildFilmsIndia Jabberkhet Estate, that is near Landour, Mussoorie. It was during the monsoon season the flower was seen blooming along with Commelina coelestis