flowers

flowers

flowers

Man makes a flower garland using marigold flowers and a massive needle to string the flowers.

flowers · birds

Most common parrot family member in India is the Rose-ringed Parakeet: Tota has excellent camouflage

Uttarakhand·farmland · flowers

A walk-through in our Cosmos fields in October this year, with the Common Hill Partridge calling across the hills. The odd white Cosmos is admixed with the more abundant purple-pinks, with blue skies as a stark backdrop.

Tamil Nadu·forest · hills

Ooty town below Doddabetta Peak in the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, thick forests and lateritic red soil. A lovely plan view of Western Ghats forests taken directly from above, and looking down at the jagged top of the trees.

flowers

Almost the entire plant of yucca is edible and the flowers are massive stalks of beautiful bell-shaped white flowers.

hills · flowers

Lasiommata schakra or the Common Wall butterfly is part of the Nymphalidae family. It is seen getting nectar from a bright red wild tree Dahlia flower in the Himalaya.

flowers · highway

Large foliage of Rangoon Creeper in full bloom at a flyover pavement next to the highway. These are common in Asia and are drought resistant plants grown as climbers and for hedges in garden landscaping.

flowers · highway

Teak wood's hardness everyone knows about, but do you know of its slight delicate white blooms that grow and flower in large bunches at the end of the monsoon season? The Teak is a prominent hard wood tree in India, but its harvest is now a…

Tamil Nadu·flowers · railway

Women pluck tea leaves at a tea garden in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India. Shade trees grow in between the neat rows of tea bushes, even as our cameraperson walks down the train tracks and into the shola forests beyond.

monsoon · flowers

Lagerstroemia flos-reginae flowering in Delhi monsoon season. The branches get shaken up in the monsoon windiness.

hills · farmland

Ooty, Tamil Nadu: Ootacamund hill station seen from air, with red lateritic soil, green tea gardens.

architecture · temple

Ancient Islamic rare texts in form of handwritten Quran on hand made paper displayed in Ladakh Museum from Late 16th Century Mughal period.

Ladakh·architecture · temple

Central Asian Museum, Leh, with the Old Leh Palace and Gurudwara Pathar Sahib next to it. View of the the Central Asian Museum main building.

flowers · monsoon

Autumn and monsoon blooms: Nasturtium climbers flowering and Morning Glory going berserk in purples and blues. Also, Canterbury Bells in flower in the monsoon season. Flowers blooming beautifully at Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

This hill cucumber is large and thick and has small dimples or bumps on the surface, it super sweet and juicy, and grows across the hills of Uttarakhand.

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Tamil Nadu·hills · flowers

Ooty, Tamil Nadu: Ootacamund hill station seen from air, with red lateritic soil, green tea gardens Ooty (short for Udhagamandalam) is a resort town in the Western Ghats mountains, in southern India's Tamil Nadu state.

flowers · music

Flower duet from the opera Lakmé, 1883 by Léo Delibes Singers: Shambhavi Mishra and Renie Mathew.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

A valley full of blooming Agapanthus Lily in the Himalaya? wildfilmsindia grows thousands near Landour Valley of purple flowers! This Lily valley around Mussoorie is wildfilmsindia's floriculture hub Monsoon clouds mill around the valley ev…

festival · temple

The devout receive blessings from the juggernaut god by way of prasadam or a holy food offering from the gods. With out-stretched hands and piety, devotion and prayer on their lips and minds, they receive the same with gratitude.

flowers · monsoon

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 flower! From bud to flower to seed pod and seed dispersal, that is the brief summer and monsoon li…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

A valley full of blooming Agapanthus Lily in the Himalaya? wildfilmsindia grows thousands near Landour Monsoon clouds mill around the valley even as a Darjeeling Himalayan Pied Woodpecker, a Striated Laughing Thrush and a Yellow-crowned Woo…