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Young dahlias waiting to bloom.

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Canna flowers bloomed on a roadside in its most common form and color .

Retrieved from archives.SOOC

Paris Peacock on white bougainvillea(sooc)

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A kind of Emperor Moth.( still working on the exact ID)

www.thaibugs.com/mothssat.htm

www.google.co.in/images?hl=en&q=emperor+moths&um=...

Blue Pansy(Junonia orithya) butterfly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junonia_orithya

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Thank you Hashimchot, my friend, for the ID. It's Gloriosa superba flower

Gloriosa Lily

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I'm posting these flowers with leaves with a hope that friends will help me in determining the ID. (ID:Snapdragon -Antirrhinum majus-thanks to friends @ roberta hynes and @ 1crzqbn for the ID)

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Well, Winter is almost gone and it's getting pretty warm out here . It's only a matter of days that Spring will set in- bringing much relief to the temperature and to the vegetation. In anticipation, here is a "Dahlia" flower for my flickr friends from my archive.

The twilight sky gets golden on rare occasions(sooc)

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Amaranthus or Cockscomb that resembles a curly hairstyle. Retrieved from archives.

Common Sailer (Neptis hylas) butterfly.

With the last upload and the present ones I have come to a stage when I have to upload the shots for the sake of completion of the collection and not necessarily for their beauty(not many left). BTW, both the present ones are SOOC.

This moth with an onlooker outside the glass wall was captured at night with the help of Speedlight SB 600.

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The front side(facial) view of the Hummingbird Hawk Moth, uploaded by me a week back.

In the course of this one week it has been viewed umpteen times which is a record of sort for me. Thanks everyone, including the Admin. of the nine Groups where I have posted the image on request. Thanks for your interest and support for wildlife.

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SOOC

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Captured last autumn !(Jacobinia flowers)

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Butterfly in winter eking out a living:ID:Purple Emperor (Mimathyma ambica): Butterflies sans flowers look incomplete. However, I think this colorful one with yellow proboscis, found in a house-construction site in front of my house, needs to be shared.(P.S. It has been observed eventually, contrary to my initial conclusion, that quite a number of varieties of butterflies depend on the moisture of the soil for their survival, irrespective of the season)

Mimathyma_ambica.

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It's none other than Common Nawab butterfly.

Have a lovely Monday, friends

I love the Himalayas and I guess the Himalayas love me.:-) I was back in the mountains again when we visited the north-eastern state of Mizoram for the first time in our lives last week.

I took this shot on top of Reiek peak,a tourist spot some 29 kms from Aizawl,the capital of Mizoram.That is my husband Sanjay in the shot.We were at an altitude of around 5000 feet here.To reach this peak we had to trek about 6-7 kms from where we had parked our vehicle and back.Initially the trek was gradually uphill through deep forests but the last bit was very steep.However the view over the surrounding mountains and valleys was worth it.I guess our tenure in Shimla and all the walking we did in the mountains there helped me to reach this place.:-)

Hummingbird Hawk-moth captured in a rare stationary pose.The fastest of them all.The perfect flying machine, it zooms like a jet fighter and stops at mid-air like a chopper(SOOC).Another shot(captured with DSLR and cropped) is posted in the comment column below.

Macroglossum stellatarum

TGIF and I'll be missing another passion which is fishing( fav. way to spend Saturdays when in Shillong). Instead, spare a moment and have fun, watching and listening to this song on fishing

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(P.S. Correct ID-Oriental bee hawkmoth(Cephonodes hylas virescens-05/07/2012)

Reiek peak is a tourist spot some 29 kms from Aizawl,the capital of Mizoram.The peak has an altitude of around 5000 feet and commands magnificent views over the surrounding mountains and valleys and also of distant Aizawl.

Local variety of Squash (Botanical name:Sechium edule:thanks to my friend-true nature-lover, -for the botanical ID ) The above one is a rare variety. The popular and common variety is posted in the comment column below.

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ID: It's a Chayote aka Pear Squash

Shot taken during a short trek to Reiek peak in the beautiful north-eastern state of Mizoram in India.The peak which has an altitude of around 5000 feet is some 29 kms from the state capital Aizawl.It commands magnificent views of the surrounding mountains and also of distant Aizawl.

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At 6.30 AM at Guwahati in Assam

You have shared with me so many golden sunsets. For a change, let's share morning scenes captured from three diffrent places at diffrent points of time during the last 6(six) months or so.

Also listen to a related song sung by Roger Whittaker called New World in the Morning "

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This message was pasted at about 15 feet from the ground on the wall of a shopping mall called Millennium at Aizawl, Mizoram . It is simple but quite effective to convey the message to you all, my friends

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I am called Praying Mantis and am ready to say my prayer !

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More shots in the comment columns as the simple visual story unfolds.

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Clear shot of Common Baron(Euthalia aconthea) butterfly (sooc)

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This huge cloud had caught my eye on our trek to Reiek peak in Mizoram.

Reiek is a tourist spot some 29 kms from Aizawl,the capital of Mizoram.The peak has an altitude of around 5000 feet and commands magnificent views over the surrounding mountains and valleys and also of distant Aizawl.

Cruiser(Vindula erota) butterfly(m).

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This is what I shot a few hours back. hope you like it.

Have a lovely Tuesday !!!

Camellia flower from a flowering tree, resembling common rose.

Below is the common variety found here

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Have a lovely Saturday and an enjoyable weekend.

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This owlet (Barred Owl ?) strayed into our house and sat comfortably on the keyboard of my computer. The strange thing about owls is that they can't rotate/move their eye balls like we do. they have to turn their neck for any little change in the direction of their vision.

"..And not by eastern windows only,

When daylight comes, comes in the light;

In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!

But westward, look, the land is bright ! "

Arthur Hugh Clough in " SAY not the struggle naught availeth ",

Red Lacewing (Cathosia biblis) butterfly, the most colorful of them all, for your viewing pleasure .

This one goes by the name Ambulyx pryeri

Have a lovely week ahead.

www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/2010/05/10/page49/

Luna or Moon Moth (Actia maenas diana)(m) cropped to remove the superfluous edges(flash used)

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Common Baron (Euthalia aconthea) with a green proboscis.