Airport elephants.

Elephants statue  placed  in front of  International  Airport  New Delhi.



In Hindu  mythology seeing  elephants , it is very auspicious before  proceeding  to somewhere.



whatever, these  welcome  statues of  elephants  are beautiful.

Wild plum

This is the  image  of wild plums  I have  seen  in  jungles  of  Orissa.

Sale in progress… wild honey…

This is not on the album “wild honey” by Tiamat or breakfast haven, but on the actual wild honey.In southern Orissa it is a common seen that selling wild honey on road sides.

I enjoy  morning  road run  and  usually every morning  I run about  seven  to eight kilo meters on road by watching  the  happenings around. In  winter it is  common that  the  wild honey collectors  bring  their collected  honey  to market place in morning hours. The honey they sell is very cheap , not more than 150 per kilogram.

Once , I have  got an opportunity  to see  their technique  of collecting  wild honey from a tall tree. First they  made a  torch  with rugs  so that  will not produce flame  but smoke only. Then  they  put it below the  honey beehive , due to smoke  bees  escaped from  hive , they cut the hive and brought it down.

Busy August.

The month August was very hectic to me. Throughout the month I remained on tour in different parts of south Indian states. I was enjoying the tour. Earlier I have not got such an opportunity to travel  many places in a spell. As usual all the tour was purely on official on government expenditure.