ಬಣ್ಣ ಬೆಂಕಿ (color fire or color flame) is what came to Pushpa's thought when she saw this picture.
This purple house was spotted during Sunday morning bicycle ride. I could not take my eyes off it for several minutes. What caught my eyes most here was the staircase shooting out of the cement block wall. Whoever the owner is a daring person. Surely this is a landmark in this part of Dharwad.
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Pushpa spotted a mongoose on our street, close to our apartment building. The mongoose ran towards it's den which is under a ramp.
As soon s the mongoose descended into the rainwater drain, another mongoose popped it's head.
Then as Pushpa moved forward and close to the mongoose, another mongoose appeared. Nice little family :)
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This banana sapling arrived from Sirsi along with a canna sapling on Nov 2nd. I planted them in the narrow open space at the edge of our apartment's parking space. The soil was contaminated with construction waste. I removed cement chunks, pieces of brick and pebbles. The soil was mainly charged up naturally with organic waste, which is a slow process.
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| Nov 3 2022 |
One morning, a few days after the second anniversary of planting, the plant was just growing taller but no sign of flower. Normally a banana plant bears fruit in a year's time. I had a thought of cutting it down and planting something else. It so happened Pushpa noticed a bud protruding from the stalk. I dropped the idea and continued watering like before.
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| Jan 22 2025 |
We would check the flower frequently which transformed into tender banana hands. Development was slow. By mid December 2024 the banana stalk had taken a nice shape. However I knew it was a long way to harvesting it. On March 9th morning we checked the stalk and saw a couple of yellow bananas. That's when we decided to harvest it.
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| Mar 9 2025 |
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