July 3rd
On Tuesday, I went to the TTUF Nizhal park to help with watering of the semi-grown saplings there. Managed entirely with volunteers, the park is a beautiful place. I visit too rarely these days.
I joined the relay of merry and chirpy young volunteers with watering cans going up and down the central path. I had a good workout - carrying those five litre watering cans, two at a time. 😅
I watched the dragonflies and grasshoppers, heard the babblers and the mynas in the trees.
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| Magizham - Mimusops elengi - one spectacular red fruit with a background of dark wavy green. |
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| Arjuna fruits - Terminalia arjuna - hung in abundance, ridgy and starry. |
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| The Crepe Myrtle's purple flowering spikes were replaced by these fruits. Ripening - moving from green to this dark brown. |
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| And this! The Noni tree was in flower and fruit! Morinda citrifolia |
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| I sat this afternoon and tried to sketch them. |
The wavy edges of the magizham leaves were beyond me, and the Noni maybe looked ore like a pineapple, and the Arjuna fruits - I need to figure how to sketch a ridge.
An exercise of mindfulness this afternoon.
