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Fixed up with Damini, Savitha, Shalini.

Most of the group at the start. Savitha, Joshika, Tanuja, Jay. Anjali, Damini, Shalini Lakshmi and Dinesh joined later.


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Would you like to see
A bee
Pree
ning?
This one is...
What a jewel it is!
It's preening with a zzzzzing!

ATI, Mysore, 310523

Neon Cuckoo Bee (Thyreus nitidulus)

Click to view

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Everybody can dance...


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We drove down to

Mysore


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here

is my FB album of snaps in Mysore, and the highway to Bangalore.


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If you are going on a bus journey (BUS, mind you, NOT plane)...would you rather be a


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From BR Hills, we came back via Mysore to enable my nephew to see the Mysore Palace. The crowds thronging the Palace were incredible, and I didn't really want to go inside and get pushed around

What quickly helped me decide to stay outside was....that I looked up at the Palace spires....and there were these two:


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I'd posted this pic of a cycle, all decorated and worshipped on Ayudha Puja (Navami, ninth day of Navarathri) day, and taken out and used proudly on Vijaya Dashami (tenth and final day):


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Today I was told that the sighting of the Black Stork, that I posted about

here was a first for Bangalore! What a thrill that was ( Read more... )