Gulmohar n Summer....
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It is may , sweltering heat of mumbai dust n crowd take the charm of summer out of you...but still there are certain things that hold you back and make you enjoy the beauty of summer...
tiresome n humid mumbai summer..

A fully blown gulmohar*** tree is one of them..
In my banyan park office now there are full blown gulmohar trees ..when we goes for daily routine walk after lunch inside the campus we could see full fully blown beautiful flames of fire...
They call it gulmohar, flame of the forest or flamboyant tree...for me it is a pleasant feeling that takes me back to my childhood dayz

summer vacations were also occasions of local festivals. I used to wait eagerly for the festival season as it was a time when all those cousins whom I used to meet only once in a year come together.....also by that time summer vacations would be about to finish.....so that sadness as well as the laziness to get back to the school would also in the back ground.. I used to pray let that festival never be complete...but again it will just remain as one among hundreds of my prayers; which goes unanswered..:-)

When I went home for a vacation last month...summer was approaching the end of itz tenure this year....red carpets in the shades of gulmohar trees had started to make distinct pattern

Be it in dadar,andheri or along the country side of valluvanadan land scape beside the railway line towards palakkad... cacased red marvel of gulmohar is always a feeling that brings freshness in to your mind.Provided there is at least some amount of compassionate attitude left in your mind,provided you can spare some seconds to open your eyes and look at the red carpet that nature have preserved for you....

*** Common name: Flame Tree, Royal Poinciana, Gulmohar
Discovered in the early 19th century in its native Madagascar by botanist Wensel Bojer, Gulmohar is a flamboyant tree in flower - some say the world's most colorful tree. For several weeks in spring and summer it is covered with exuberant clusters of flame-red flowers.