Fotographia..

Happy Republic Day

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:57:25 PST

" Hind Desh Ke Niwasi, Sabi Jan Ek Hain...!"
Celebrating the 63rd Republic Day of The Nation called India...!
~Jai Hind.

Orangey in a Winter Noon!

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:39:12 PST

"California is a great place to live if you're an orange."
~ Fred Allen

Who will agree to Allen's quote. I wonder..!

These days Californian oranges are available everywhere around the world. Sitting in Bangalore, in my terrace, on a winter forenoon, I enjoyed the tangy-ness and sweetness of this citrus fruit to the best. Wasim's love was evident in that orange half.. ! One half he enjoyed and other half I had sinfully eaten..!

To make it a memorable day and of course a worth-dollar-moment, I had to rush inside the house, get my camera and freeze it there.!

Oh what a delight this fruit is to eye and to mouth..!

~ For That "Sunny Orangey (happy) Feel in a Winter Noon"!

Bread...

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:38:03 PST

"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
~ Omar Khayyam

Oh, how much I love the English style of breakfast... bread, butter and jam...! Of course to accomplish that, I need a cup of hot tea...! And the day becomes a bright sunny day.. What a wonderful kick-ass in the morning!!

Buddha speaks..

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:09:25 PST

“He is able who thinks he is able..”
~ Buddha

Towards Light

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:21:35 PST

The leaves always move towards light, in search of light... Lets our souls too do the same.. move towards light of positivity, love and mankind..!
Path Finder: Towards Light :)

New Year Wishes

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:28:36 PST

Another year has passed by... 2011 is over and its "Twenty -twelve"..!

Hope this new year brings happiness, prosperity, good health to everyone's life.

May each one of your dreams come true.

May love and peace reside.

May we all take a few more steps towards "green-progress" ..

May we be good citizens..!

May we try to keep our environment clean, less polluted...

And may the earth have least (no) disasters.

My wishlist:

That I will be more regular on my blogs..! That I will take more and better photographs.

I wish I do well at my job ..I wish to reduce some kilos. I wish to keep myself calm and composed! I wish not to be depressed and be happy and positive (366 days of the year)..Not the least, I wish all my dreams come true..!

Amen!

Fallen...

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:46:52 PST

And we named her as "Fallen Beauty"

From the series Frangipani Love..!

Sip it...!

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:41:09 PST

The World Tea Day was on 15th December and TOI dedicated a page to Tea-lovers..
Tea is a classy beverage, a poor' man energy drink, a house-wife morning chore's ritual, a tired man's stress buster... Every cup of tea has a story to narrate...!
Of course as the new article says "It's no lesser than coffee..!"
I am sure many of us who love this celestial beverage will agree to this.

While one enjoys tea in cups, mugs, glasses (steel and glass both), some love it in the dehaati style.. "in a steel bowl.. ! I had seen my grand-pa sipping his hot tea in steel plats and vessels (i meant bowls). And when I am in hurry, heading to work place and have least time to enjoy my morning tea, I follow the 'Grandfather' style of sipping Tea... (I do it most often on weekdays, in fact all five days of a week :))

Say "NO Plastics"

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:39:50 PST

Say NO to Plastics.

Plastics are non-biodegradable and have harmful on the nature.

Lets join our hands for this noble cause to minimize the usage of plastics in any form (whether its a tea cup or a polythene bag).

Sunday are Tea days!

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:30:42 PST

"No Sundays are worth without a cup of tea! "
~Amtrips

I love hoarding stuffs at home, whether its tea bags, or cups/mugs or biscuits...!
Well here you see some of my hoards~ an Auroville cup (from Sun-shine Pottery), Aurobindo Ashram's paper' factory's coaster (made of hand-made paper and dry flowers), a small bee-plate from Ochre and my favorite Biskfarm viscuits..! :) :) And there sits my Garfield.. :P
Sundays are always happy days for me. Reasons are not many except for ~
I dont have to go to my job-place.
I get up at my own time in the morning.
I can watch movies on Saturday nights.
Fifi and me have our lunch together and I take afternoon nap..:)
Not the least, have a good morning breakfast with my favorite ginger tea, served at the bed-side.

What else one wants in life more than these small bunches of happiness..!

Biscuits

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:49:28 PST

" Like Bread to Butter, Biscuit to Tea..!" :)

Biscuits are an integral part of my life.. No cup of tea is satisfactory if these are not around..!

The Miniature figurine of a Giant

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:47:33 PST

Saturdays are weekly offs for me. OMG...! I feel so excited when its Friday morning, I wait for the night to come so that Saturday comes and wish that it never ends. I also wish that everyday should be a Saturday.
Saturdays are special to me.. Reasons..
Shopping, Lazying around, Watching TV and movies, some cooking, and of course gardening, tending the plants and standing in the balcony for hours..!

I love collecting knick-knacks for my small balcony garden.. And this small figurine of the giant was bought last year from a mela..! Made of teracotta, this giant guards my pot and also makes me feel :) . No doubt I am a pseudo-ecologist!

World Tea Day

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:13:28 PST

TOI (Bangalore edition) dedicated the day for all tea lovers, teaphilics and "teatotallers" across the world, celebrating the World Tea Day. December 15th has been celebrated as International Tea Day since 2005, first time celebrated in New Delhi.

I am a die-hard tea-lover and each tea cup has a different story associated with it.

What attracts people to tea is the aroma, its taste, the rustic rawness, its colour and of course the variety (esp when today we have so many varieties and infusions of tea available in market). One can sip this "celestial beverage" from a plastic cup, a paper cup, saucer, a steel bowl and also a kullad (small earthen pot).

Oh yea, there was another article in TOI on the Mangalore's famous KT. A unique kind of tea prepared only in Kalladka, Mangalore. The Kalladka Tea is one of a kind where one can see a clear difference between the milk layer and the tea layer. Its not the creaming on top of tea. Its the other way round!!I am yet to taste this tea.

No doubt it's truly said ~

"Every Cup of Chai speaks a different story...! To enjoy the sip, you need to listen to it."

In love with tea for ever!

Dessert...

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:01:36 PST

“Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.” ~ Chef Alain Ducasse

This is indeed sinful; when you have a plate full of hot Jalebis and chilled curd (yoghurt)!

A perfect summer dessert, oops anytime dessert for me..! I can't resist myself and my temptation for this Indian sweet.

How much I love this delicacy is evident at Jalebi Point. :)

Hover-fly

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:21:57 PST

The name says it all...

"We love to hover..

Tiny-Winny, we fly fast

with our buzz in air,

We are two-winged masters

We are the flies ...!

Call us hover flies or flower flies...

You will find on every flower..!

We are the hover-flies!"

~ Amtrips

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverfly

http://crawford.tardigrade.net/bugs/BugofMonth14.html

Skyscape

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:31:10 PST

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." ~Sir Rabindranath Tagore

Evening Prayers

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:08:23 PST

My Evening Prayers..

“There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying...”

~ Anonymous

Romancing with Tea

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:26:51 PST

Romancing with (over a cup of) tea..!
The winter has set in and romance is at heights... whether its with photography, or with tea, or with my bitter half...! ;)
This winter is cold and great for sure!

Welcoming Winter

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:54:55 PST

~Welcoming Winter~
" Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
~Pietro Aretino

Its the third week of November and Winter has set in. Nights and evenings are colder and days are chilling. I am enjoying this winter for some secret reasons... I feel so happy and free, ready to welcome the winter and the new job and lots of aspirations and of course a new year..!

Current Mood: :)

Reproductive strategies vs Resource allocation

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:38:08 PST

The act of evolution has the two key strategies when it comes to mutual interaction. Pollination service is one such natural phenomenon in ecological world. The major factors of this plant-animal interaction involves reproductive strategy by one and resource allocation by other.

The art of pollination is slightly biased by the plants where they attract the pollinators by using cues like colour, smell and rewards (can be nectar, pollens and even proteins). This can be taken as one of the classic example of how plants exploit their pollinators. Releasing nectars in small dosage keeps the pollinator hungry and hence attracts them again and again to the flowers of the plant/tree. The release of nectar in small amount is a trap lining strategy and the squirrels (also birds and bees, in many cases) hover from flower to flower to flowers in search of the resource thus aiding pollination, and benefiting the plant.

Squirrels (The Indian Palm Squirrel, Funambulus palmarum) being opportunists, don't leave the golden chance and hence usually fights between fellow mates (mostly males, in this case) are seen over resource (nectar) hunting.

Prayers...

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:00:55 PST

Offerings through Prayer

"Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God."
~ Edwin Keith

A Journey....

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:53:30 PST

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Here a male pied bush-chat is busy collecting leaflets and twigs for building its nest.

Festival of lamps and light..

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:21:27 PDT

Diwali is not simply about lighting diyas, bursting crackers and relishing good food. It is also about enlightenment of soul and burning all your bad times. It is about coming over the darkness of ignorance and stepping into a cleaner and brighter world.

Wishing all my readers, dear ones and family and friends a Happy Deepavali..
May this festival bring light, happiness, prosperity and good things in everyone's life..
Have a safe and eco-friendly Diwali celebration

(Request: Do take a small step to reduce noise and air pollution)

Current Mood: Spread light, Gather happiness :) :)

The Pink Ribbon...

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:18:12 PST

"October is all about Pink...!"

October is the month for Breast Cancer Awareness.
Take your mom, wife or any woman at your home to the nearest center for a check up.Save a life and stay away from cancer!

Into my heart's night...

noreply@blogger.com (Amrita Tripathy) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:13:22 PDT