Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Spotted while trekking to Firangai Devi Cave Temple at Nanoli.
Mexican Prickly Poppy or Argemone Mexicana.
What attracted me more are the leaves. They are alternate, without leaf stalks, serrated and the margins are spiny. The grey-white veins stand out against the bluish-green upper leaf surface. They are extremely prickly.
In Sanskrit the plant is called Svarnakshiri. Svarna means ‘gold’ and ‘kshiri’ – juice.
It is considered toxic for cattle.
Nancy Merrill’s Off- Centre Photo Challenge
We have a stretch of wetlands bordering our nearest railway station.
As you walk along the sidewalks, this is the view that greets you in the evenings. Cormorants and egrets. Crepescular rays sometimes. The bogies of the passing local trains and beyond that, the Sahyadri mountain ranges.
The second picture is of a common mormon butterfly.
These are all from my gallery. They are not very old. They are from the last Sports Day that I attended at my son’s school before Corona halted everything .
The track is getting a retouch for the race.
The torch waiting for its flame.
Racing to the finish line.
Handball match
Airborne feet
/Twenty Word Tuesday by Bulbul
Week 26 – Spring
Not to impugn her countless merits; just that I don’t trust spring.
She hides ugly secrets behind her beautiful face
Leena
Starting with S
The seed is still clasped to the edges of the new leaf, giving all it could, till the tiny roots become strong enough to support and nourish.
She won’t let go…. not yet …
Someone did this to an apple!
Took few bites from either sides.
Then placed it on the head of an exposed pipe on the pavement.
How many times have I seen the scene played out in movies..?
This was no work of an archer, but maybe I appreciate his sense of humour but not the lack of civic sense.
This trail leads to Firangai Devi Cave Temple at Nanoli, near Pune, Maharashtra.
How would we survive without humour?
We use it as a shield and also as a weapon.
I came across this meme about the rise in petrol price which has gone upto Rs 100 for a litre.
This came on whatsapp and I do not know who is the creator.
The humour is not going to change the price but it does serve as an effective communication.
As Victor Borge said,
There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Week – 25
Love
For some, love’s euphoria becomes lambent and then fades.
Leena.
Others wade into its perfervid depths and forget how to swim.
Drops of a sentimental introspective me
seeps into paper,
painting my life story
in a vignette.
Musings of a Wandering Dryad 