full moon
Was a lovely full moon in the night… super, considering its the last ‘super moon’ of 2020 – the closest that it comes to the Earth.


Couple of attempts with a 16mb mobile camera.
Majakali is in the northern part of India, where my daughter and me went on a retreat. Though not actually in the Himalayas, it was exciting to know that it was near it, and one may see the peaks in the distance… …depending on the weather! The group turned out to be a group of…
Usually we look forward to a good reason to have a nice time… why not look for a good reason for an outing as well? So for a recent birthday of we thought of going outdoors especially as the birthday girl likes adventure. The idea was to climb a hill and venture into a cave……
Going beyond the conventional meaning of being slothful – the slow movement of a sloth may well be a survival skill to avoid detection by predators. In this pretty cool clip from the BBC, legendary David Attenborough has a close encounter with a sloth, and talks about its adaptation to the lack of nutrition in…
This was an amazing sight… it looked like a snake at first sight, but then it was pretty strange… After a quick search based on a wild guess, it turned out to be larvae migrating, possibly some kind of a gnat larvae. But why are these larvae moving like this? You might guess that it…
[14-Aug-2002] On the afternoon of day we were to leave, when I told my colleagues where I was planning to go, they asked me how I was going. Then they created confusion about why we were going via Coimbatore when the route over Mysore-Ooty was much simpler, and started listing out all the options. I…
As iNaturalist reported, this fellow would grow up to be an Oleandar Moth. The caption is a satirical take on Robert Frost’s beautiful poem… The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. Touching an oleander caterpillar isn’t recommended. This…