I got a rude shock when I saw the two pictures that Dr. K.O. Mammen (Mohanchayan), son of our dear late K.M. Oommen (Mabalamappachen), had emailed me.
Due to heavy rains in Bangalore, the lovely jacaranda tree, which is known to have quite shallow roots, which has stood in their garden for as long as I can remember, had been uprooted and had fallen right in front of the terrace, just at the place where Mohanchayan and Shantakochamma sit and have their daily morning coffee and then late in the evening, as Mohanchayan says, till "the mosquitoes chase them in".
The Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia) tree is known to put on a breathtaking floral display. Its vivid lilac-blue clusters of trumpet shaped blossoms appear in the summer, later falling to the earth carpeting the ground with a mass of color. It is said that if you are walking underneath the Jacaranda tree and one of the trumpet blossoms falls on your head you will be favored by fortune.
Now that the whole tree has almost fallen on our dear one's heads, they will only "almost" get a huge fortune!! :-)
Here is a picture of a beautiful Jacaranda Tree in full bloom.
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