Bannerghatta - Animals

Our long-standing plan to visit Bannerghatta National Park finally materialized in the last week of December. Sid was really excited to finally see wild animals in real - particularly lion, tiger, and bear. Even though he kept asking why they dont have leopards and "Sherkhan" (of the Jungle book fame)!

Chital Deer

 Bison and Sambar deer

 Ooh! for some PDA!!

A grass-eating tiger?

Ooty - Flowers - V

And the last set of flower pics from Ooty. Some of them are wild, some carefully cultivated, all of them beautiful! :-)

Orange Cestrum

Daisy Fleabane

Bottlebrush

Mexican Sage

Stokes Aster

Poinsettia

Painted Mallow

Red Crucifix Orchid

Peruvian Lily

Marmalade Bush

(Is it at all difficult to imagine why it is called so? :))

 Bird of Paradise

Wild Indigo - White

Wild Indigo - Blue

Ooty - Flowers - IV

We saw quite a variety of flowers in the Botanical Gardens, and I saw many of these for the first time. A collection from the Botanical Garden ....

 Baby Primrose

 Sultan's Balsam

 White Azalea

Korean Azalea

 Plectranthus x 'Mona Lavender'

 

 Matchstick Plant

 Matchstick plant 

(after the matchhead-like blue blooms shed)

 Balsam

Yellow Jacobinia

 Wine Fuchsia

Canna Indica

 Crab Cactus

Hydrangea

None-so-Pretty or Catchfly

The butterfly is an Indian Red Admiral

 Lily of the Nile (Blue)

Lily of the Nile (White)

Ooty - Flowers - III

Here comes one of my most favorite flowers: Fuchsia