Today : 11th January 2012

North India its bitterly cold
and snowing...
In Hyderabad its almost summer
with the winter being is short spring..

Flowers are in bloom and the green is fresh and flourishing. Bees are buzzing...







Parrots are back eating fruits of the petticoat palm.. .. beauty is bursting ..a silent riot of colours...

Visually enchanting :the steadily growing flaming trumpet vine or the golden shower trumpet.










Kalanchoe or flaming katy with flat glossy green succulent leaves..... It blooms with small pretty red flowers .

The flowers are grouped and tightly paced flower heads on long stems.


Come April,the sun supreme with its fierce rays makes the earth dry-parched.. the temperatures rise – getting unbearable.

Subsequently a high pressure area develops over the Indian Ocean while the intense heat over the Earth (the Asian continent) creates rising air and surface low pressure.

It gets insufferably hot and inevitably everyone is looking up towards the sky..waiting for the clouds to build or thicken and the first drop of rain…The air masses move from the high pressure over the ocean to the low over the continent, bringing moisture-laden air to south Asia.... thus the magical monsoon...

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