These days …. it’s been raining now n then - enjoying it !!  There’re more reasons to enjoy the weather …. my mom’s coming this week - will be going to Kolkata by the mid of next month … “Durga puja” is around the corner … n all this means more roaming around n more pics … so loving it 

In the above pic. can see the black cloudy sky ….

n so … this year too we’ll have guest. Last year - we went to Kolkata after “Kali puja” (Diwali), but this year we’ll be going before Durga puja n this time it will be a 2 weeks long holiday. I am very much looking forward to it … visit lots n lots of places where i have not been to.

It’s a “Mexican Oleander” bud … soak in water droplets … they too enjoy rain - like i do !!

Would love to visit the “Botanical Garden” again n spend the whole day clicking nature.  Well even when i go to my maternal uncle’s house at  Andharmanik …. i’m  sourrounded by nature too. But in the past it used to be more beautiful …. it still is beautiful but not the same.

These are “Brahmi”  plants (…. or herbs whatever u call it )  soaked in rain ….

they taste little bitter - but have heard it’s good for brain !

It’s would be rainny season in Kolkata by the end of september …. (well that’s what i m guessing as it always rain around Durga puja). If it rains we may not be able to visit all the places that we have planned … but i love rain n i love taking rainy pics too.  So hoping to have fun n click tons of photos.

Rain water dripping from “bouganvilla” leaves …

those droplets look so nice !!

I sometime wonder that i nearly visit the same places whenever i go to kolkata …. and so take photos of the same places n post them on my blog  … seeing the same place over n over again may get boring. So i always try to shot things differently … so that it might look interesting … hope to visit different places too

I never thought … simple bugs can look to stunning !

at my hometown - i had seen so many different types n colorful … n those glossy ones too.

if i can … will click as many as i can.

seems like i m fascinated by them !!

Not only flowers but the leaves can be as beautiful as colorful flowers ….

Taken at my auntie’s house in Barasat (west bengal) …  a species of ferns. i guess they like wet humid places as i have seen these in west bengal  mostly grown every where …. even on trees.

In Delhi n surrounding area - in olden days - people use to plant neem trees in their courtyard as its breeze  (thought to be n i guess that was right too !) would keep away diseases. It also provided shade from the burning sun. Now a days people do not have enough space to live in … unthinkable to plant such a huge tree. But anyway … there’re still many huge neem trees around the main city area (i actually don’t know the name of the roads). They’re around  “Trimurti Bhavan” n where “Indira Gandhi Memorial Hall” is  …. n  near Patiala House too and many of the interconnected roads around these places !!!

Caladiums :  taken at Amulia (west bengal) where our ancestral “Kali temple” is …. there were colorful ones too but i like the pure green ones.  i like to call them green hearts !!!

The Flame Nettle/ Coleus:  it’s  from my uncle’s house in Karimganj (assam) …. it was like a vine roaming around green chilly plants and some more plants that were kept near the chilly plants. i tried to figure out in which pot it was planted - then discovered it was planted in a small plastic container. Compare to its size the container was very small … i was amazed !

Near by our house is a “peepal tree” (Sacred fig) … some days when i wake up at 5 am and walk on our rooftop - i see women coming with their worship plates and offering water to the (believe to be) holy plant !!  Surprising thing is that they have their shower before 5 am … for me it’s unthinkable …

But yes … i like seeing people bending infrot of something which they think is more powerful than them … makes them ordinary - innocent human being … but as the day rises and so do their true colors … jealousy - hatred -back biting and so on …. making these beautiful women look ugly and aweful …. but the nature remain the same - soothing n beautiful !!

Nature can be so mesmerizing …

so devilish yet divine !

i’m not that fond of taking sky shots

but now a days the blue sky changes it’s color every now n then

it forces one to adore it …

p.s.If days back i took this pic.

but it didn’t look exactly the same …

this is the best i could take

my camera isn’t that good to take  panoramic view !!

or perhaps i’m not that good - don’t know …

one of my favorite flower - bouganvilla

they look pretty … as if flower within flower.

this i took at roadside - but at home have a yellow one

it will start flowering anytime now -

with its branch hanging from here n there ,

it looks AWESOME !!

….. the old Banyan tree stands still for who knows how many years,

when my maa (mother) was young - it was still like this.

the curved road along it has changed and so have the people passing by,

new houses are built … new vegetation has grown around.

But the Banyan tree has seen it all … the good and the bad !!