Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Photographs of Butterfly!

I love butterflies and this is the first time i have captured them in photographs that to with my mobile phone...



It didn't move until i took its picture, so sweet of it!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Roses from RoseGarden @ Ooty

A little info abt the Rose Garden:

This is a popular tourist spot in Ooty. Established on 20th May 1995, in celebration of the centenary of the Ooty flower show, this garden sprawls over 3 to 4 kilometers and is at an elevation of 2200m above sea level. It exhibits a wide variety of roses in the most fascinating colors and sizes. The garden also boasts of more than 10,000 different kinds of roses. Interestingly, all the roses out here have a name of their own, which shows that each of them is taken care of like an individual here. There is also place to sit, where you can sit down and admire nature?s delight through these beauties.






The garden is maintained by the Department of horticulture. It is also called as"Centenary Rose Park." The garden has five terraces which houses the largest collection of roses. There is an entry fee to this place and if you wish to take photographs, you will be charged extra for that. A must visit for all nature lovers!





I have visited this garden more than 15 times as ooty is near to coimbatore, we usually plan the trips to ooty at the time of flower show @ May, only at these time u can see a lot flowers blooming, even these are the seasons for roses @ ooty...
Everytime its a new experience, the colors of the flowers takes us surely to a dream land... We have variety of roses, they have Green roses which are small little button roses in green color like leaves... Surely a place to visit in the summer...



A bunch of oranges my alltime favourites!

Monday, June 8, 2009

A Trip to Queen of Hills


Nilgiri is called queen of hills situated in the state of Tamilnadu. It is been named as Ooty alias Oothagamund by British (Othakkal Mandhu is been deprived to ooty. Means a village under one large stone). The Britisher has spent their summer in ooty when they ruled the country and you can see lot of British Architectural buildings still been used by the people there.


OOty is a good tourist spot and also a good place for botanical research. It has a lot of tourist spots like Botanical Garden, Rose Garden, Thodda petta, Lake for Boating, Pykara falls, some beautifull hill tops and many other Dams & tourist places in its surroundings.


Lot of films happened to be taken in ooty, both kollywood and bollywood films.There are shooting spots like 6th mile and 7th mile.


Near by to ooty on the kudddalore road there is the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary where we can stay and watch the wildlife animals. Ooty is a reserve for botanical plants and there is always researchers working on there.Ooty is also a reserve for Hydropower generation as you can find lot of dams and hydropower stations situated in the hills.