Tree in bloom, 6th Green, The Trivandrum Golf Club

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Tree in bloom - 1, 6th Green The Trivandrum Golf Club
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was playing a round of golf this Sunday morning when I had regulation 3-on onto the 6th. It's the only 5-par on the Trivandrum Golf Club. While I was lining up my put I saw this beautiful tree, right behind the pin. In full bloom, its golden yellow flowers and dark green leaves looked magnificient against the clear blue sky in the background. I took out my Nokia 3230 and snapped up this lovely photo right there. Then I wrote this note and blogged it via GPRS! What a perfect Sunday morning! (click on photo to see full size)

Antique Postbox, Perumbavoor, Kerala, India

Antique Postbox, Perumbavoor, Kerala, India
Originally uploaded by medhekar2000.

I recently traveled to Perumbavoor, a town about 30 kms from the city of Cochin in Kerala, India. At the Government Rest House there I saw an antique postbox of the erstwhile Travancore State. Painted red and black with touches of golden yellow on its crown, the postbox is made of cast iron and on its black base is written "Massey & Co, Madras", most probably the manufacturer of these postboxes. There is an embossed inscription that says "Cleared by Travancore Anchal" in English ("Anchal" means "Post" in Malayalam) and another inscription in Malayalam, the language spoken in Kerala. The box has the Royal Emblem of the State of Travancore along three sides of its top. The design of the post box reminds one of the postboxes in the Victorian era. While no one was at hand to tell me how old the postbox was, I would think it would be at least pre-1950, if not earlier.

What impressed me was the solidity of the construction and how well-crafted the box was - each detail still intact even after all these years - almost a work of art. (click on the pictures to see them full-size)

Atria

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Atrium. A large open space

in a building, usually topped

by a glass roof, sometimes

containing elaborate landscaping and ponds.

Atrium. One of the two

smaller chambers of the heart,

form the curved top of the heart, above the larger ventricles

beating out the rythm of life.

Each atrium consists

of an open space with recessed walls.

Each a space to let the light in,

for vision or for enlightenment.

(Click on photo to see it full size)

Just Imagine!

"Everything you can imagine is real."

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Does art imitate life or is it the other way around? If you can imagine a thing then does it already exist? Put another way, can we imagine only those things that already exist? Is the universe a closed set of ideas that are floating around waiting to be picked up like radio waves are picked up by antennae? Are the number of ideas finite? Or are they finite only for each level of intelligence? Just imagine!

The question really is, what is "new"? What's a new idea? A new invention? Or are there just new discoveries? Are discoveries finite? - I mean one could go on discovering newer and newer things. But ideas, inventions? Would their number be limited by the level of our intelligence or by our imagination? Is our imagination limited by our IQ? (I know people with humungus IQs but who have little imagination and even less patience with those who have it!)

Albert Einstein once said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" and Bertrand Russell said that "Science may set limits on knowledge but should not set limits on imagination."

No limits! Just let your imagination free...but, like with every freedom exercise responsiblity for, to paraphrase Goethe, nothing is more obnoxious than imagination without taste.

Tree in full bloom. Museum Compound, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

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Originally uploaded by medhekar2000.

Just look at this tree! In full bloom, celebrating life! Happy just to be! I see it in its various moods on my morning walks and it always offers something nice to look at. (Click photo to see larger image).