red and yellow flower
Looked like lantana but was actually different…

Asclepias, Mexican Milkweed
it’s called Arisina Kumkuma in Kannada, beautifully descriptive name!
~ Deepa Mohan (naturalist, writer, photographer, birder, …….)
Looked like lantana but was actually different…

Asclepias, Mexican Milkweed
it’s called Arisina Kumkuma in Kannada, beautifully descriptive name!
~ Deepa Mohan (naturalist, writer, photographer, birder, …….)
“Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.” – Art of Peace, Morihei Ueshiba Well I didn’t actually seclude myself; was with around 15 other people… when I had gone on an approximately 20km walk over two days, in the…
…..Could go on a nature walk in Turahalli Forest this morning after a long gap…There is so much to explore in nature…..we just wanted to know the home of different life in the forest but we could just touch the tip of the iceberg. We got lost in exploring the rocks……its amazing to go back…
This a tiny lake with maybe no name. Anyway in Bangalore, we just have to wish a lake by any other name, remains a lake! Around April while walking around southern part of Banashankari over a small dry lake bed, there were some sheep grazing around. The grazing sheep were at first very shy, running…
After the main Turahalli Forest is closed for public, we took this opportunity to explore the Tree Park opposite to it. Kudos to the Karnataka Forest Dept (KFD) who took a great initiative in rejuvenating this park planting thousands (looks like an exaggeration, but yeah, thousands of new saplings. They welcome any friends free who…
Mandya’s usually considered as an intermediary milestone along the way to Mysore or any other place… we never imagined we’d actually go to this place for a visit. But when we did go to a homestay over here, the surroundings were quite unexpected. We’d probably gone at the perfect time, just after the monsoon, and…