Allie makes things (in India)

Agra in particular was so dense with beautiful surface decoration that I ended up with many pictures of nothing but patterns. Here are a few of my favorites; there are more in this flickr set too.

This past weekend (my second-to-last in India!) I finally made it to one of the places in Bangalore I’ve been meaning to go this whole time: the Lalbagh botanical garden. It is huge and lovely and green, though also pretty happening on the weekend. Still a relaxing place to spend a few hours, though, despite the occasional and still inexplicable-to-me requests for my participation in group photos with random strangers.

This lovely glass house is modeled on an earlier version of the Crystal Palace in London.

There is a huge lake in the center of the park, surrounded by these orange-flowering trees with mysterious seed pods. (I wish I had learned more of the names for all of this unfamiliar flora and fauna …)

This slightly kitschy goddess was part of the unfortunately neglected Japanese garden.