which hill station…
sometimes the weather @ Turahalli Forest can get pretty rugged… very very windy and rainy…
[on a trip to Mudhumalai with some friends] Woke up around 6:30After an uninterrupted sleep. I wanted to make good use of being in the forest and so meditated for some time. All the other guys were still asleep and I stepped out of the cottage after around half an hour into the pristine world…
Don’t bother if its nice or not… just in making an attempt – we learn so many details that we’d ignored otherwise. “A drawing is simply a line going for a walk” (Paul Klee) Don’t bother if its nice or not… just in making an attempt – we learn so many details that we’d ignored…
A non-poisonous snake was found in our neighborhood which a snake handler came on request and caught it, to release it into the wild. A little girl aged around 7 years loved the snake and requested if she can hold it for a while… The snake handler showed the snake to us. I wanted to…
On an afternoon walk, there were birds all around, and it looked like the slightest movement would drive them off. Standing still and listening, apart from their sounds, there are the sounds of their movements among the leaves all around… captured in audio/video to a little extent. But there was a sense of gratitude in…
After some heavy rain, a forest looks radically fresh the next day. Nature showing us impermanence.
We may have noticed these common holes in soft sandy patches and walked on. Few might imagine that these tiny holes are actually the engineering effort of some young insects (antlion larvae), at work catching a little hard working engineer – an ant! As ambush predators, catching prey is risky because food arrives unpredictably and,…