Just a note to say, "Summer was here!"
A blistering, roasting, energy-sapping tropical kind of summer.
Reviled, perhaps. Moaned about, definitely. Yet so infinitely a part of us.
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(Harvest time: fields along the Punjab - Haryana highway) |
Summer was here. All too soon the mad exuberance of Spring and the harvest season slows to a sultry crawl.
When it's Summer, the earth swings to a slower rhythm. The clock slows, sounds mute, movements gentle. It's the Summer way of life.
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(Baradari palace, Patiala) |
White is so beautiful now. Especially the icy-cool white shot through with tropical hues.
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(on the Dehradun - Rishikesh highway) |
And far away in cooler zones, there is an explosion of jacaranda clouds all along the highways, leaving travellers gaping and over-awed.
I'm sure that I was not the only one who rang up someone to gasp about the jacarandas in bloom.
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(Patio of Ananda in the Himalayas) |
And just as I am ready to melt into the ground, the mountains call and I am rejuvenated.
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(Patio of Ananda in the Himalayas) |
A winter-garden within hours of the heat and dust of the scorching tropics? There's something so surreal about that. But I love it, and the view of misty mountains fading into the horizon spins a web of wander-lust in me.
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(Monsoon clouds over the backwaters in Kochi) |
Summer was here. And now it's on its way out. A flock of monsoon clouds are busy hustling it out. Shooing it away before settling in.I hope it's going to be a long cool, wet season ... goodbye Summer!