urban elephants
Last Sunday, Chris and I went to the Festival of India on Centre Island with some friends of his, and discovered Commerce Court West and its statues on the way. The big elephant is Tembe, Mother of Elephants, and the little ones are behind her, clinging trunk to tail. The festival was nice, with lots of good (vegetarian!) food and posters about how eating meat leads to disease and bad karma. Apparantly eating the meat of animals who were killed by humans leads to a lack of compassion, and therefore you become a bad person. Anyways, there was also traditional Indian dancing about everyone's favourite sheep-herder/casanova, Krishna, and Chris has a nice picture of it here.
I learned this morning through some clever googling that these flowers are called field bindweed, and that they are quite a nuisance. I think they're lovely. These are just down the road from me, spread all over a fence and part of a lawn.
posted by Heather Ann @ 10:04 AM
2 Comments:
The Indian dancing was very nice. The clothes are beautiful and the dancing was elegant. The krishna singing, however, was not. It was annoying and preachy. Still, India is a place I plan on visiting soon.
About the bindweed, it's terribly invasive and chokes out native plants. That's why it's so hated. But you're right, the flowers are lovely.
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