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PURPLE & PINK

 


 

LT COL NOEL ELLIS

 

17/VII/2025

 

The atmosphere during the morning walk was exactly when you walk just after dusk. Dark clouds had surrounded the colony. Heavy rain was imminent. The weather was ideal to shake the laziness.

 

The smell of petrichor has long gone as the ground has been damped since ‘Sawan’ walked in. Trees and plants have their feet soaked in rain water and are loving it.

 

Yesterday, one of the ‘Passion Flower or Rakhi phool’ creepers showed the first bud. Our happiness knew no bounds as my wife pointed it out to me. Sometimes, one gets so engrossed in other things that a big bud which one has been waiting for gets missed out. The flower was due to bloom anytime.

 

As they say, there are many slips between the cup and the lip. We rejoiced a little too early on seeing the bud. A storm preceded the rains. When we took a dekho in the evening, that pot had toppled down. The pot and the plant were lying flat on the ground. I hoped and prayed the bud was intact along with the branches.

 

My heart skipped a beat, as it has been since September last year that we have worked on these creepers. They are now steadily climbing up their supports, The vines have got dense but ‘bellowed’ due to very strong winds.

 

The flower finally revealed itself and took our breath away. The wait begins for the other vines to bloom.

 

Purple was one of the colours of the day. A purple passion flower. Close by, was a water lily in purple. When I walked to the roof, Monochoria was blooming in magenta and another set of water lilies in dark purple. In an adjacent tub, there was a water lily by the name of ‘purple joy’. It was indeed a joy to take photographs of all of them.

 

On second thoughts, I couldn’t have skipped photographing the other flowers. There were another five water lilies in shades of purple and pink, the colours of the day.

 

Purple signifies royalty, luxury, nobility, and power, which was showing through my smile. It represents creativity, dignity, grandeur, independence, pride, peace, piety, rarity, mystery, and magic. I couldn’t agree more.

 

Purple combined with pink says a lot about femininity. Who could disagree!

 

Pink on the other hand signifies love, romance, femininity, kindness, compassion, & playfulness. Pink is also associated with warmth, hope, nurturing, calmness, tenderness, and luxury. Amazing! Isn’t it?

 

Believe you me, these colours had such a calming effect on me. The mind started sending signals of happiness to the body. A smile to the face and was being generated to do more for these purple and pink darlings.

 

Flowering season has begun on the right note. Rains are a great help. A little care and blessings from the skies are bringing the “Ellis’ Garden” back to life.

 

What more colours are in store? I wonder!!!!!!!


 

JAI HIND

©® NOEL ELLIS




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