Lovely vintage! I believe it is from the 1930s. Leave alone the car and a flowing creek to wash... they had a camera to shoot the 'action' at a...
When a tiny camera came to me in 2006, I wanted to get close-ups which for the camera was impossible.. It was such a basic and crude camera. So...
This is a brilliant idea. Who does not need a large storage box if not for keeping things cool? Moreover, it can be a nice utility table. Who...
Very nice and in such profusion! Lovely!
How hot is hot KK Ng? This summer in some parts of India the mercury touched 46C. In my place it rarely goes above 36-37C in summer, which is...
For all of us there has to be some background or starting point when we began to do 'gardening activity'. I have tried to document - in a...
I'm sure you know about a site called 'pinterest' where myriad things like this and whatnot are! When we see those, we feel 'we can make it too'!
S-H speaks of road rage.... it's crazy here too.... and "...don't see anyone in rush...." -- this is unheard of in the last 30 years in our city...
Thanks marlingardener. Bulbuls are also very pleasing in their songs.
Wow, Frank! So good to know! Thanks to the voters. :smt041
Very interesting, I should say. Those are huge capacities you mention. Nowadays, our locality is being supplied on alternate days, from 3am to...
I just made the Bulbul nest story with some more images in my blog....
Found one more image in the archive. See some here and don't miss an interesting one on the house, adjacent to a plastic tank. Picture taken on...
Yes, Frank. I did mention that word in the first instance and I did not want to point it out when you asked. I'm so glad you probably re-read...
Yes, I too do not like this, but it is Nature's way. The females was dead. I removed the entire ball of toad with a fish-net and dropped it...
Thank you Tooty. Wisconsin reminds me of a very good friend of mine who lived there. I'll know where he is now. Have just written to him asking...
Our water supply is from River Cauvery [Kaveri] which is 20 kms from here. There is a dam built across it, the Krishnaraja Sagar Dam [a very...
Long gone are the days, at least here, when there was a 24x7 water supply. In the last 20 years, with water becoming the subject of inter-state...
Toads are common in my pond. The males [smaller in size] in their heat grasp the female [larger] so tight that the female suffocates and dies and...
You are right. This morning also I watched for a few minutes, one chick being fed by the parent. I'm sure it spent the night where I last saw in...
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