Kashele Blooms......

On a visit to the Kashele area in the Karjat region (in the district adjoining the Mumbai district), here are some flowers from the garden, of an NGO called Shabari Seva Kendra.  We were on a visit to Kavthewadi and this NGO .

Many of these NGO's work with rural and tribal children and women. There are facilities, and people, who help in the education of the local youth , as well as conduct all kinds of useful training for girls, whereby, they learn a skill. I saw a big room, where students were busy with studies, and another where some girls were getting training on sewing machines. Did not want to disturb them, so did not take photographs there. 

But their garden was full of color....

Photographs clicked on my Canon EOS 1100D

The Field Trip (Part 3)

Our third stop on the field trip was at the Aghane village comprising of 16 households totaling 81 people. The villages Ahupe, Pimpargane, Aghane, Doni and Nhaved are spread along the top of the Sahyadri ranges, in the Western Ghats in the Ambegaon block of Pune district. These places have an annual rainfall of 3500 - 4000 mm.

I was there with a group of 30 people on such a monsoon rainy day. The villagers kindly allowed as to sleep in the school hall. They even prepared simple home style dinner for us.....

Some typical houses of the village. The place where we stayed was similar to the large dwelling in the background and u can see it was very cold and foggy;  something we never experience in Mumbai.

                                                                  The neighboring house.

 Next morning getting ready to leave in the bus, after a wonderful repast of delicious Pohe and sweet tea, i clicked this through the bus entrance can u spot who i spotted ?

Leaving the village descending the mountain the next morning. This was the view at 8 am.....

Stay tuned for Field Trip (Part 4).....

The Field Trip (Part 1)

I left on Saturday the 13th at dawn on a rural field trip with a group. Overcast, rainy and the beginning of a 3 day holiday saw a massive traffic on the highway which we needed to follow eventually.

The initial destination was Manchar, District Pune. Up in the planes away from Mumbai in the Bhimashankar area.

On the highway, heavily overcast and raining. A typical monsoon morning.

 

We were not headed to the actual city of Manchar. This is how the outskirts looked like.

Pomegranate trees with bright red flowers.

Close up of the fruits and flowers.

See the developing fruit at the lower end of the picture.

Coconut palm tree(Cocos Nucifera) in the premises where we visited.


Much needed clor on a dull day.

       Work of art!

Tricolor rose in the same garden where we stopped for lunch.

The rose enjoying the monsoon drops as well........

I had never seen a rose with three colors......












Stay tuned for the Field Trip photos (Part 2)......