Peepal

This is such a beautiful and majestic tree. We used to have this outside our house in Lahore, Pakistan. It was a rather old one, and it's trunk was quite wide. The houses in that neighborhood were formed around a semi-circle, and the tree stood tall in the middle of it all. It was big enough to cast a shadow in the entire area. Such a calming shade in summer time, almost paternal. And I guess all of us have gone through the smelly process of cleaning out skeletons of it's leaves ... beautiful :)