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There are many environment conscious bloggers in this blogosphere and I really admire the way they have expressed their concern for conserving it. Some birding enthusiasts & wildlife photographers keep the love for nature growing with each of their beautiful posts. It is because of such thinking minds that there is hope for the survival of our depleting 'Green' treasure be it the Indian Tiger or even the snakes. I wished to express my gratitude and support for such bloggers and was hunting for an appropriate medium to communicate the same. The blogger badges rotating around didn't connect with what I wanted to applaud bloggers for and so I thought of creating one on my own. Hope the recipients like this badge design. Those who've liked it can also feel free to pick it and award it to bloggers they find worthy of this badge!                           ...

An amateur's first attempt at Palindrome Naisaiku. This is a variation of the Haiku genre of poetry.  Image courtesy www.bookschristian.com    Love life’s longing Hearts aflutter, minds restless, Souls mated in strife Longing life’s love! Strife in mated souls restless minds,  aflutter hearts Love life’s longing.

HI, Check out my entries for the Nat Geo Moment Awards 2010.. This is the first time I'll be participating in a photography contest outside College premises..And am happy to tell you that all my uploaded entries were approved for the contest :D So express your love for photography and do shower my entries with kind appreciation and votes! Just click at the top right or bottom right hand corner of the Nat Geo window to flip the page to the next photograph or entry.

                                                   This is a letter from me to my hubby who thinks I’m nowadays wasting a lot of time farming! This is the husband’s week and I thought I owe this to him. I have therefore decided to give him an explanation along with full idea of the inventory at my farm. I will try to convince him how profitable it is to be a farmer, in today’s days. I share the letter with you here: Howdy Pardner? When I was a kid only Old Mc Donald had a farm! And the rest of us envied him for that. Now most of my friends have a farm of their own. And there’s a cluck-cluck here and a quack-quack there, here a moo, there a moo and everywhere a moo-moo! I have a farm of my own too. As you know, I began not very long ag...

  The Oriental Magpie Robin ( Copsychus saularis ) ...has made my day! Spotted it early this morning on our garden fence.  This distinctive black and white bird holds its long tail upright as it forages on the ground and its perch.  This passerine bird is native to tropical South and South East Asia. It was considered a member of the thrush family but is now classified as an Old world Flycatcher. Wish My lens had a bigger zoom to capture a perfect pic' of this restless bird. Here we see The Asian Koel - Male ( Eudynamys scolopaceus.. we know this fellow better as the cuckoo since it belongs to the order of the Cuculiformes. At 45 cms, this big bird is again native to South & South East Asia and China. It is famous for encroaching into the Crow's nest for laying its eggs and the young ones are raised by the gullible foster parents. Such birds are known as the brood parasites. The word koel is echoic in origin and the bird is a widely used symbol in Indian p...

This is my entry for the extra-special Pepsi IndiBlogger of the month contest.  The Question put across is - If you were the game master, what challenge would you like to throw to Ranbir? My Answer: If I was the game master, I would challenge Ranbir to get to the Pepsi, through the glass door which would open only after Ranbir successfully repeats the following tongue twister..  "A pleasant place for sipping Pepsi is any place, for sipping Pepsi is pleasing"  .... thrice without faltering...And fast!!!

I'm quite proud of my blogging achievements this morning! Had taken up my love for short story writing seriously, only a few months ago and I consider myself an amateur writer. So I'd participated in INDImag's KathSagar Short story-writing competition with really no expectations at all. I submitted two stories and both were published. WOW! I said to myself and raved about it to all my friends. The valuable commentators also showered my work with kind words of appreciation.  Then came the results and I was elated to see that mine was picked as a wild card entry and was 17th on the list of top pick stories (from 70 entries) that would enter Phase-II, the final phase of the KathaSagar Contest. Though mine was last on the list, it was again an unexpected feather in my cap !! :)) And this morning, wonder of wonders... Just take a look at this table... 'Lin had a Solution' is 4th !!! Isnt that a huge leap? Mine is not the winning story and neither am I the runner-u...

   This is the Red Cheeked/ Red Whiskered Bulbul ( Pycnonotus jocosus ) , measuring about 20cms. This bird can be easily identified by its brown crest, red cheeks and red vent. This bulbul is native to India and is generally seen in the woodlands or in the countryside. That's how I spotted this lone bird, sitting peacefully on a wire at Pratapgarh, while the guide was pointing to a small look-out window in th e wall of the fort. My imagination must have been going wild because I felt like it was staring away into the distance, meditatively. As if it was pondering on the history of the fort, too! This bird feeds on a variety of fruits, insects and flower buds, and often does so in flocks of three to fifty birds.  According to most authorities there are 144 species of Bulbuls, Greenbuls and allies in the family Pycnonotidae and I have spotted only 2 of them as yet?! :(  

 Sleep my  baby, Snugly in bed. Sweet Dreams!