The designing of the flower beds initiated this year in the Tulip Garden of Jammu and Kashmir has actually not added to the beauty of the Garden. In fact the tulip bloom this year was not really full blown for causes known to the gardeners only. One prominent thing which I actually felt was that Tulips look good in straight lines only. The designing which the planners of the garden have done this year did not actually give the feel of a tulip garden at all.
Recently travelled from jammu to the valley in a car. Virtigo made me stop at a place near the jawahar tunnel first view point of the valley. Well actually many a times had thought to stop over at this place but during most of my visits crossing the tunnell was a presssing issue because most of the times I would have to cross it at odd hours. Anyways today was a day and luckyly I made the spot. This is a wonderful view point and gives a view of a large area of the valley; actually the feel of the fact that Kashmir is a valley is acquired the best from this view point. I tell you one doesnt get this feel even from Affarwat because the view gets somewhat blocked their. I visited in winter but I think the best views must be those of the spring , summer and autumn; the spring would bring out a combination of gold and green as the mustard sown in the fields grows by then and gives a golden hue to the landscape, the summer would present an expanse of green with paddy field full of green sapling and the autumn would present a yellowish expanse with the paddy having grown ripe by then.
On the same day I clicked a couple of shots while the sun was setting. This was while I was travelling from khanabal to bhijbehara and the speed of the car was about 90 kms per hour. Well I liked the results hope you like them too. See below.
These are my latest shots by my camera. Well Shopian is a place where I have been posted some 9 months backs. It snowed recently, actually my first winter here. This was a busy day and I was just on usual check of the deployment ordered yesterday when I reached the main bridge of Shopian called the Rambiara Bridge and I got complelled by the muses to stop my vehicle and take this shot. The mountains are called the Pirpanchal range and the wide stream is locally called the Rambiara Nallah. Ironically 2009 could be called the year of the Rambiara nallah for all the wrong reasons but then to me this picture does compensate some of that.
Here are some more pics of the same stream;- ENJOY. 
