I am a huge fan of Nature. I can walk into it like it was my
own den. The vast expanse of woods and high grown trees never tires of telling
me their stories.
At 15, I was attracted to šššššš
upon falling in love with them at an exhibition. My enthusiasm introduced me to
several lovely people who had similar hobby and would allow me to enter their
protected zone. Some of them gave me inputs on how to develop them.
The Coimbatore Forest College was very near to my home and I
sneaked into the wicket gate, approached the nursery in-charge who generously
gave me a handful of š®ššššššš
seeds with a challenge that if I am successful to sprout it I will be able to
make a bonsai. This variety is a very hard challenge. But I succeeded to grow
lovely bonsai tree ( two of them Survived )
When I was 25 in age I still had them but only
disappointment was they never flowered. It was those days when I was engaged
and I for some reason could not look after them well. My mother had to throw
one off as according to her it had died, I never believed it. On returning from
my honeymoon I saw the second one now 11 years of age dried and uprooted from
the flat basin I had provided her. She had a small flowering bud jutting out of
its soft branch.
While my restricting the growth of the tree giving it
unnatural ambience, it did manage to survive for 11 years and also finally
succeeded in giving out a flower.
Everything in nature that finds its own way is perhaps most
nonviolent and achieves its success in every step glorifying its inherent
beauty for all to see.
Nature has always shown me - šš²šÆš®
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Pic Location: Manjushree Tea Estate - Gudalur