Dear Bill, Bangalore used to be called the garden city of India. Now it is the Tech City of India. But the trees are still here - rubbing shoulders with Technology Parks. And every year in the period between Jan - May they burst into bloom and make a statement with their flowers . This period is summer for us. So it is very hot. It is as though nature on one hand makes it unbearable with the heat and as a concession she gives us this beautiful sight of flowering trees. And there are bees and the butterflies. (One sat on my hand the other day) As the Persian couplet says - if there be paradise on earth - it is here! it is here! it is here!

(And then there is the pollution, traffic, dust, and over crowding, but y'alls don't want to hear about all that.)