Overhead photograph of a garden plot with reddish-brown soil. A circular border of cut stone or brick blocks encloses a young shrub with slender green leaves at the top, and scattered small leaves and fallen twigs lie on the soil beneath it. At the bottom edge a bushy plant with green leaves and clustered flower spikes grows beside another section of the same block border. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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Overhead photograph of a garden plot with reddish-brown soil. A circular border of cut stone or brick blocks encloses a young shrub with slender green leaves at the top, and scattered small leaves and fallen twigs lie on the soil beneath it. At the bottom edge a bushy plant with green leaves and clustered flower spikes grows beside another section of the same block border. No people are visible.

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A photo of a garden plot with reddish-brown soil. A young leafy shrub stands inside a circular ring of angled stone or brick blocks laid edge to edge. A bushy green plant with small flowering spikes sits in the foreground near another brick edging, and grass and low yellow-green shrubs border the top. No people are visible.

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Outdoor view of a landscaped garden on red earth, with curved rows of tilted terracotta brick edging forming concentric beds. Young saplings and small shrubs are planted within the beds, and a single tall flagpole-like pole with an orange pennant stands on the right. Flat open land and low scrub stretch behind under an overcast white sky. No people are visible.

A photograph of an open dry red-earth field at an ashram site. A young sapling with green leaves is staked in the centre, inside a circular bed ringed with terracotta bricks and white pebbles. Concentric rows of curved brick edging radiate across the ground, with smaller circular brick beds scattered around. A tall thin red flag on a pole stands at right, and scrubby trees and a distant fence line the flat landscape under an overcast sky. No people are visible.

A photograph of an outdoor garden area with a small young tree with pink flowers planted at the centre of a circular bed edged with upright and tilted brick. Bare reddish-brown soil surrounds the sapling, and a raised concrete-edged planting strip with shrubs runs behind it, including bushes with red flowers and green foliage. A white boundary wall and a blue tarpaulin appear in the background among trees. No people are visible.

A newly landscaped garden plot on bare red-earth ground, with young saplings planted in curving beds edged by rows of small terracotta bricks laid on their sides. Thin, leafy young trees stand in circular brick-ringed basins, with a taller sapling at right. White stone edging borders a path at left, and wooded hills sit on the distant horizon under an overcast sky. No people are visible.

July 14 2009

July 14 2009

An open, dry field at an ashram site under an overcast grey sky. A large circular bed of reddish-brown earth is edged with a low ring of stones, with concentric rings of terracotta-coloured tiles or bricks laid in curved lines. Several young saplings and small trees are planted around the bed, and a thin bamboo-like pole with a small flag stands near the trees at the back, with a few power lines overhead. No people are visible in the scene.

July 14 2009

Close-up photograph of two terracotta pots set on a wet stone floor. The nearer pot holds dark moist soil with a low spreading plant of small round green leaves and tiny pale blue flowers. The second pot behind it holds similar green seedlings. No people, statues or ritual objects are visible.