Rain Scenes - Part - 2

Here it is rainy season. Have a look at some of the rain
scenes.
(Click the images for a larger view.)


The rain giving dark clouds hanging in the sky, before the
rain.




White clouds.




It is raining now.




Ring waves caused by the rain drops.




After the rain. Rain water in the field.




Stones under the rain water.




Rain water.

For More Rain Scenes
Rain Scenes - Part-1

Perfect Camouflage - Mantis Insects

This Mantis insect is difficult to see, because of it's
perfectly matching texture. See the image below to see this
insect clearly.




Grey color mantis on a succulent plant.




Green color mantis. Because of it's green color, it blends
well with the background. Because of it's posture, they
are also called as Praying Mantis.




Brown color mantis.

Related Posts.
Strange looking insects.

Small And Very Small Flowers!

There are a large number of photos about big and mediun sized flowers in the internet.
So I decided to present some small and less photographed flowers!

Small Caltrops flower.



A small blue color flower.



Holy basil flowers.



White color flowers. These flowers are very small.



Some white colored flowers. We use this plant during the festival.





Violet color flower.

Related posts.
Some small flowers....

Blown by the wind - Seeds.

Some plants have the seed structure that are useful
for the dispersion by the wind action. Below are two of
them.


The tightly packed seeds of Pergularia daemia.



Pergularia daemia.





The seed of Pergularia daemia. The children play with
these seeds.




The gyrocarpus seeds. They are also called as Whirling Nuts
and Helicopter Tree. They are used by the children as play
things.

Links (External)
1. Whirling nuts.

Flowers - Pomegranate, Onion And Zinnia

Pomegranate flowers and buds.


Onion flower buds.


Onion flowers.


Zinnia flower.


Zinnia flowers.


Related Posts.
1. Pomegranate Flowers.
2. Pomegranate Flowers.

Black And Red Butterflies

Black and red colored Butterfly on ixora flower. (Swallow Tail)

Two butterflies

Butterfly in flight.

Butterfly on Ixora flower.

Black and white Butterfly

Black and red colored Butterfly on ixora flower. (Swallow Tail)

Butterfly on cubes

Links (External)
1. Butterflies - India - Wikipedia
2. Swallow tail Butterflies - Wikipedia

The Plant With a Strange Name - Elephant foot Yam

The Elephant foot Yam comes out of the ground.
It seems to be someone planted a dragon tooth in the soil!




Two Elephant foot Yam plants come out of the ground.




The plant comes out of it's protective covering.




Elephant foot Yam plants.




Two Elephant foot Yam plants. The cooked tubers are
used as food.




Elephant foot Yam plants.




The stem of the Elephant foot Yam plant, has different
shades of green.
Other names of Elephant foot Yam plant
(Amorphophallus paeoniifolius):
Stink lily, Senai Kilangu, Suran.

Elephant foot Yam. (Upside down view)

Links (External)
1. Elephant foot Yam plants - davesgarden.com
2. Elephant foot yam - Wikipedia
2. Tuber - Wikipedia
3. Elephant foot Yam tuber fry - sulekha.com

Stones and Sand grains!

Red colored stone. It has a crystalline structure.
The stones have many different colors, shapes and textures.
They are different type of rocks like Granite, Quartz
Monzonite, Lime stone, Sand stone etc.




Quartz stone.




Red and white colored quartz stone.




Mica.
This mica is placed on another stone.





"To see a World in a Grain of Sand......" by William Blake

River sand grains. They have different colors and shapes.
Macro view.




River sand grains. Macro view.





Pebble stones from the river. The rough edges of the stones
are smoothed out by the action of running water.




Small stones from the river sand.




Pebble stones.




Small stones from the river sand.


Related Posts
Micro view of Stones - Microbeauty

Links - External
1. Rocks - about.com
2. Rocks - Wikipedia