charles statman

Jai Hindi! India celebrated her 60th Republic Day today. 60 years as a republic! we had breakfast, not knowing what to expect My friend Kumar came with a buddy of his, and we travelled about seeing B'lore on R-Day in style

There was a flower show at Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, with a stunning amount of people, and beautiful flowers


Kumar and me, and some amazing flower displays


Flowers AND babes in uniforms


Ed, stunned at the amount of people


giant nuts


We do organic well


trees along the roadside


Police Bullet 350! And? Video of stunts for Ind Day!


Then we left the gardens and went for lunch at a great veg restaurant, then drove out into the country to visit the Art of Living. *not martha stewart Here Ed is looking at a papaya tree just by the Ashram






on the way out, we saw this tree. It looks like,


but even close up, you cannot tell. I do not think it was


Then we went to Pyramid Valley, to see the Pyramid Spiritual Societies Movement giant pyramid!





came back to town very wore out, had to cut the day short to handle some things, had a quick dinner, and am about to fall asleep tired wore out from one of the most brilliant days, at 9:30pm