Thursday, February 17, 2011

thursday challenge ...trees in all their glory...

This post is featured in Blogadda's spicy Saturday picks Feb 19-2011..
  "TREES" (Saplings, Gnarly Trees, Snow Covered, Bonsai, Dead Tree, Shade Tree,...)

If the Thursday challenge says trees , i have so many to set my eyes on.....laden with flowers .... and fruit ... and a few more things ....


A lemon tree ... in all its glory ....take a closer look....


And now see what else it holds....


Got it ?


It is a nest and a family still lives in it... in the next picture you can see one of it's inhabitants..... look at the dead stump of a tree... This a small birdie having a crimson shaded head and golden yellow back . Very shy very chirpy and moves in groups...


And now a gnarled and dead guava tree to which i have hung a bowl of water and a basket of food for the birds.... the squirrel is picking up some bread...


And then she moves to a place to sit and gnaws at the piece of bread ... i make corn bread for them...


And here is a rose bud , as if a princess caught up in a prison....


The prison of it's own thorns.....


And still smiling like the most beautiful and innocent kid....


Thank you IHM for suggesting to post my trees . This is the first time i am posting something for this challenge and thoroughly enjoyed doing this....My plants always make me so happy and they never ask something in return....

There is one more interesting picture of a tree......This is probably the milk thistle , a variety of Euphorbia , I will confirm later ( right now i am in a hurry to post and then go walking :) ).... see , looks like it is on flame....


The top of the tree has turned yellow orange and it looks like it is about to bear gold on it...:)

18 comments:

  1. Oh my God!!! Loved each one these amazing pictures!!!! The squirrel eating corn bread, the pink rose bud, the lemon tree,that amazing nest and it's inhabitants!!! What a treasure of a post. Loved it.

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  2. Yup , back from walk ...
    Thank you . These squirrels have now started knocking at the door and calling from the windows when they don't get their food.

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  3. Lovely pictures, Sangeetha! Thanks to IHM, I came here and this is the first time to your blog!

    Loved the one with the hanging nest which is the best!

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  4. i'm still waiting for the trees here to go into blossom ;-)

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  5. Wow beautiful.. look at that squirrel having a ball of a time :) and the nest tooo
    lovely pics ...

    Bikram's

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  6. Loved all the pics and lovely words to go with them too :)

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  7. Hi there,
    caption for the rose bud was beautiful and poetic :)
    loved this post and off to explore more on your blog..

    Cheers

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  8. Hi sangita, Tha t bird must be tickells flower pecker or a sunbird, pl find out what it is. U r making me long for a garden like this,Feb and march are the months ripe for any bird watcher, u semm to enjoy that,pl keep ur camera ready, u may spot a golden oriole or a bee eater. enjoy

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  9. Thank Nirupama ... i am so delighted whenever you come to this space and give info about the birds...I will look for the birds you suggested , i see many of them and don't know their names.

    Thank you IHM for nominating this for spicy saturday picks on Blogadda..

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  10. Loved the rose in the thorns and the squirrel is adorable.

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  11. Thank you IHM... I never knew about this spicy saturday pick ......you are introducing me to so many things :)

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  12. Beautifully captured. Congrats on the Blogadda pick!

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  13. Congrats Sangeeta !! Lovely post and those trees and flower and that amazing nest .. just loved all of it. Ab to I cant wait, I am gonna trail you and gate crash one day...;)

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  14. Congrats on the Blogadda pick :):)Loved each and every picture that you have clicked especially the rose amidst the thorns

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