Amaltaash Ke Phool

Hot summer days .

 Rustling dry leaves, call of koyal , Progress report time and amaltaash ke phool.

I remember these lovely flowers used to bloom in April - May. Brilliant yellow color flower , hanging like chandeliers, during the bloom time one can notice more flowers less leaves. 

Despite its lovely look , these reminds me my progress report days during school time.We had a lovely Amaltaash tree at the right side of our school's main gate. Rest whole year this tree used to look like a very ordinary medium size tree with green leaves. 

It had a hole on it and that hole was the house of big black ants. many a time we have stood beneath the tree because of coming late to school. During the exam time I had noticed buds coming on the tree but on 30th April on the result day these flowers used to be on full bloom as if it is saying now it is the time to collect the glory of your hard work. 

Though it reminds me of result day's excitement but i have no negative association with this pretty flower, may be because I was a good student. After the result days we used to have school for 10 days. we used to get new books , less study more fun.We used to talk about how we gonna spend about our summer days . What we gonna do and where we are going for vacation. Sach aur Jhoot but i must accept all those plans used to be very creative and full of fantasies ...

I used to enjoy the beauty of these flowers.Then after 10 days we used to have our summer holidays . so some how these flowers are associated with new hope n the happiness of summer holiday. And when we used to come back from summer holiday in the last week of June this tree also used to come back to his ordinary condition leaving his glory behind. 

Pata nahi par shaayad wo amaltash ka ped aaj bhi April main Phoolon se lad jaata hoga !!! Shaayad !

Above are the picture of the amaltaash tree of our society campus