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[Wavelength]

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Some dedicate themselves completely to others...



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[IzzieK]

Thank you for your response. When we were young, we used to secretly buy some firecrackers from the Chinese bottle resellers across the road from where we used to live. Then by midnight we all celebrate like crazy to welcome the New Year. Moving to Australia and now here in the US I missed all those celebrations and festivities. Looking at fireworks or watching them on tv are/is definitely not the same as participating in it...I lost interest. In countries like yours where celebrations and festivities are abundant, it is nicer...and people participates. There will always be accidents, one way or the other.

Thank you very much Izzie; The court is proposing a legal ban on large scale usages of such explosives in connection with temple festivals; Policemen will be more watchful on the premises to see rules are strictly maintained. It is suggested that more of Chinese kind of crackers which seldom cross the decibel limits may replace the heavy blasters... Even elephants will be used less in festivals because they are made stand long hours as a part of rituals, which turn them violent; such incidences are frequent here... So Kerala festivals will be less colorful and less noisy anymore...Having seen several disasters of small scales and large scales, Kerala mind is now ready to accept the new restrictions....

[IzzieK]

Nice shot! I like banana hearts in stir fry with a bit of mince meat. If that sugar cane at the top right, I have not had that since I was 6 years of age. Plantain bananas we have them here but it takes a while to ripen them.


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[Wavelength]

Thank you very much, Izzie....
The white thing in this image is the centre most part of the trunk of a banana tree... it is used in different ways in cookery; it has many medicinal values too...

[Shadowman]

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Some dedicate themselves completely to others...



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Nicely captured.

[joebranko]

I have had banana trees growing in my yard for half my life and did not know of the medicinal value of its trunk!

[Wavelength]

Thank you very much Joe Banana stems are most effective against kidney stones; a variety of recipe is available too; some are in local languages though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21txEUQS94Y

[Wavelength]

John, thank you so much

[Wavelength]

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Light has a reason to be there; darkness equally has a reason to be there....



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[IzzieK]

Thank you very much Joe Banana stems are most effective against kidney stones; a variety of recipe is available too; some are in local languages though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21txEUQS94Y

Thank you for the info. Now I will never look at a banana plant differently. I don't remember the stems being used for stir fry either.

[Wavelength]

Thank you very much Izzie

[Wavelength]

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Mother Nature has different sources of energy; men are given enough wisdom to explore them and to exploit them....



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[IzzieK]

Wow! beautiful place...though from your statement, it is true, I am sad that some overexploit these kinds of places too much and so came the floods during the wet season, nothing was holding the soil back from the erosion it caused by greed.

[joebranko]

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Mother Nature has different sources of energy; men are given enough wisdom to explore them and to exploit them....



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Beautiful. I like the layers in this in one.

[Wavelength]

Thank you very much Izzie; yes, human involvement sometimes backfire

Thank you very much Joe

[Shadowman]

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Light has a reason to be there; darkness equally has a reason to be there....



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Nicely captured.

[Shadowman]

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Mother Nature has different sources of energy; men are given enough wisdom to explore them and to exploit them....



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Nicely captured and quoted. I like the use of the utility tower to emphasize your quote, it also has a temple formation to it.

[Wavelength]

Thank you very much indeed John; you are always there

[Wavelength]

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We are all sheep-herds that graze on the meadows of Mother Nature's blissful lap...



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[Shadowman]

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We are all sheep-herds that graze on the meadows of Mother Natures blissful lap...



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Nicely captured, composed, and quoted. Perfect lighting for this subject.