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The seats decidedThat rather than be dividedThey too, would get togetherAnd sit in conclave,Debate on pleasure and pain:They, too, would discuss the weatherTalk of the bold and the brave...They would gossip and chatLike the people who satOn them. Will they return to their places again?Or will they remain,Forever united,Conversational partners in the park,By the light of the day, and in the dark? ⊕

I was coming back from the Central Business District, and waiting for a friend to pickme up at the junction of Richmond Road, where Brigage Road starts calling itself Hosur Road. Right next to Thom's Hotel, I looked in the cool greenery of All Saints' Church, and on an impulse, walked inside.What an oasis of peace it is! True, the roar of the traffic is unrelenting...but the beautiful, low-set church, and the huge trees (there is one huge Millingtonia, or Sausage Tree, in full bloom and fruit just now) and the birds in them give the effect of stepping into…

I was coming back from the Central Business District, and waiting for a friend to pickme up at the junction of Richmond Road, where Brigage Road starts calling itself Hosur Road. Right next to Thom's Hotel, I looked in the cool greenery of All Saints' Church, and on an impulse, walked inside.What an oasis of peace it is! True, the roar of the traffic is unrelenting...but the beautiful, low-set church, and the huge trees (there is one huge Millingtonia, or Sausage Tree, in full bloom and fruit just now) and the birds in them give the effect of stepping into…

S.Karthikeyan, Chief Naturalist, Jungle Lodges and Resorts Ltd, is a keen observer of all things in Nature, and he has been alerting many of us, each year, to the arrival of glow-worms in the park adjoining the beautiful, and we-don't-know-how-long-it-will-last, parks adjoining Nanda Road (the correct name for this road is Rashtriya Vidyalaya Road, but it is more generally known as Nanda Road, or Rose Garden Road...there once was a real rose garden here!)They usually make an appearance around Sivaratri time (mid-February), but this year, we received Karthik's alert only last week, and some of us trooped off to take…

S.Karthikeyan, Chief Naturalist, Jungle Lodges and Resorts Ltd, is a keen observer of all things in Nature, and he has been alerting many of us, each year, to the arrival of glow-worms in the park adjoining the beautiful, and we-don't-know-how-long-it-will-last, parks adjoining Nanda Road (the correct name for this road is Rashtriya Vidyalaya Road, but it is more generally known as Nanda Road, or Rose Garden Road...there once was a real rose garden here!)They usually make an appearance around Sivaratri time (mid-February), but this year, we received Karthik's alert only last week, and some of us trooped off to take…

Yellow and Purple usually are the colours of the arrival of summer in Bangalore....Here's the yellow of the Tabebuia: This is the purple of the Jacaranda:The African Tulip, by now, has almost finished flowering, and soon we will have carpets of yellow and purple...on the roads where BBMP spares these trees, that is! ⊕

Yellow and Purple usually are the colours of the arrival of summer in Bangalore....Here's the yellow of the Tabebuia: This is the purple of the Jacaranda:The African Tulip, by now, has almost finished flowering, and soon we will have carpets of yellow and purple...on the roads where BBMP spares these trees, that is! ⊕

The cycling group (Bangalore Bikers' Club) that I belong to has a very active egroup that exchanges notes on everything to do with cycling, and they recently posted the link to this peppy, bright cycling song....song at: http://malwebb.customer.netspace.net.au/bike.mp3The lyrics are here: http://malwebb.customer.netspace.net.au/bike.htmlEnjoy it..and start cycling today!⊕

The cycling group (Bangalore Bikers' Club) that I belong to has a very active egroup that exchanges notes on everything to do with cycling, and they recently posted the link to this peppy, bright cycling song....song at: http://malwebb.customer.netspace.net.au/bike.mp3The lyrics are here: http://malwebb.customer.netspace.net.au/bike.htmlEnjoy it..and start cycling today!⊕

Most of us agree that our tree cover is depleting alarmingly, and we cluck about it....but St Mark's School has done something...er...concrete, to choose an inappropriate word!They have planted 9 badam trees in front of their school in J P Nagar 3rd Phase.They had plenty of excuses NOT to plant trees. The Mini Forest, with lots of trees, is right opposite. There's hardly any footpath in front the school. But they went ahead and planted the trees anyway.And in a short time, the trees are providing shade on the hot street...Long live schools like St Mark's, which put their trees…