This weekend was super bright and happy! I went to the lovely annual flower show at Lalbagh Gardens and it was absolutely gorgeous! A bunch of us friends had decided we'll actually do a little picnic there on Sunday.. but much laziness happened and the result was that we had a gigantic breakfast at my place, chatted forever and landed in the glasshouse exactly at 12 noon with the sun shining on our pate! Thankfully Bengaluru has been pleasant so the midday sun wasn't a major deterrent...atleast not till we saw the large crowd all lined up and eager, a mile outside the glasshouse :) One of those quintessential Indian moments when you come alive to the fact of living in one of the most populous nations of the world. With the weather being generous, I think so were we, so all the people shoving at us with elbows and cutting lines ahead, did not put us off. The poor metal detecting machine never went from 'walk' to 'stop' because people, sometimes as many as three, went through it at the same time! It just permanently gave up and said 'walk' in neon green resignation.
When we finally got inside the flowers were everywhere! The corners of the glasshouse were done up in triangles of live colour! The central piece was not so special but there was this river of alstroemeria lined with oriental lilies which was absolutely to die for!! The of course there were piles of pansies, zinnias, big fat juicy looking marigolds, delicate larkspurs, salvias, chrysanthemums, hollyhocks..! Bliss :) Especially lovely and fresh were the celosias!
What was so fun was this woman announcing for somewhere in sky.. you there stop gawking for so long.. and you.. stop taking pictures on your mobile phones :D It was hilarious how personalised the comments were!
Post flower gawking we went for a nice long walk around the lake where to my surprise I saw atleast 20 purple swamphens, grey herons, a duck family i am annoyingly not able to figure out and what not.. a surprising turnout considering the large human presence. In a remote quieter corner i spotted a tree filled with the bright flitting leopard butterflies sunning themselves. What a fun day!
2 comments:
Flowers look so colorful! I am sure it must have been a joy to be surrounded by bright, happy colors :)
It was gorgeous!! :) Absolutely loved it!
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