On a road trip - pretty and not-so-pretty sights

Going eastward on NH-67 (Coimbatore-Nagappattinam route) from Sulur, we came across some sights which soothed the sore eye, and some others which instigate the mind to seethe...

Sunflowers painting a nice picture before the seeds reach oil-mills, to further sate man's needs.
A wide variety of mangoes cultivated by a family (karumburasam, banganapalli, alphonso, imampasand, rumani, kallamani...) We couldn't resist the inviting display, and had to stop enroute both ways to have a fill of the end-of-season pick.


Tanjavur dolls waiting to reach indoor showcases.
Food on wheels - 25 beef recipes traveling towards weekend dinner tables.

You guessed right. The road has to be widened as an aid to lopsided development, and we humans are ready to fell those stalwarts who have thus far been forming green and shady tunnels.

We humans insist on travelling even faster towards the 2 degree threshold of catastrophic climate change.

Comments

  1. Pradeep Nair02 July, 2008

    These rural scenes are so invigorating!

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  2. Indrani02 July, 2008

    Wow! Such lovely shots.

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  3. RAJI MUTHUKRISHNAN02 July, 2008

    Beautiful pictures of sunflowers very colourful dolls.

    Sad to see trees being chopped down - it takes ages for one to grow, and only minutes to lop it down.

    And those poor animals - but then, one man's meat is another man's crusade.

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  4. Unknown03 July, 2008

    Nice photographs, particularly the close up sunflower.

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  5. Swarna03 July, 2008

    Pradeep, Yes, India still lives in its villages.
    Indrani, AT, thanks!
    Raji
    we need a rethink on the kind of development agenda we pursue

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  6. Lakshmi Bharadwaj04 July, 2008

    The pictures do create an impact, they're really well taken. But the trees!! Oh my god! They r cutting down trees? Really? That;s really sad. I hate it when people cut trees. u could send this to fort mysore.

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