It was lovely to meet the Amstutzes this morning, and have a look around my favourite park....

Here's Lupin, named after a flower herself, with another flower, the Zinnia:


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Of course it's a good morning...I am off to Lalbagh with

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Do you remember that a certain Vinu had etched my name in the snow at

Yosemite ?

Well, last Saturday I went to a part of the Bannerghatta area that

Sangeetha

had birded in, many years ago, and decided to re-visit, I found this:


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Folks..meet Karen of Crane Creek, El Portal, Yosemite National Park.


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While talking about human beings at Yosemite I completely forgot to talk about the fact that Yosemite seems a very popular spot to get married in! Just like my post about photo shoots in Forest Park, we saw this beautiful bride having a photo shoot while we were walking:


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Well, one does also document the human presence at all points....! Here are a few images of the most successful mammal (in terms of breeding and presence) on earth...

This is Half Dome, and if you look closely, those ants are....people...


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Thanks to Karen, I was able to id some of the wildflowers that grow in the Yosemite Park; they were so varied in colour, shape and size!

On Tenaya Lake, I loved the pattern this fallen tree-trunk made:


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The creatures of Yosemite are varied in size and appearance, and we got to see very few of them; but what we did see was fascinating!

Let this squirrel welcome you to this post...


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I wondered if I should do a day-by-day account of the trip, but then decided that it won't be easy...I would probably mix up everything and give wrong information as usual...so here are some of the creatures of Yosemite ( Read more... )