Goodbye Bangalore

Tanvee, Ragini and Saurabh came to town

This is from June, but needs to be here. 

The day they had to leave, 

we went up the hill at 7am

 and explored a new part of it 

(where I'd never been)

The trees were wonderfully 

crackly and the ground dry. 

Thankfully, we were able 

to dodge the sun. 

This was part of Tanvee's 

Nature Girl Outings,

(v.1.0) A success. 

Picturesqueness, now fleeting

It's so difficult to find a way to capture things in the mountains when you imagine that you're going to want to remember everything right as it was back there. I remembered that issue of Richie Rich which had something called a Smell-o-Vision that Prof. Keenbeen makes. So until I figure out how to bring to you two the smells and the goosebumps on skin in these freezing, sub-zero places I saw, here's some scenery and cloudery. This is shot on my way from Manjhi to Agoda, both in Uttarakhand. I never tire of the Garhwali lanscape, though next time, I hope to travel to a new part of the Himalayas.

Final glimpses

The just-post-afternoon sun at 5th block is absolutely heavenly. My window faces the west, so at about 5 o'clock in the non-winter months (and earlier these days, as we approach winter), the wall opposite my bed gets painted in the most amazing moving-light imagery.
If the curtains are drawn, then my window looks like this.
The tree near my window is a telltale sign of the climate outside. When it rains, the leaves droop low, and suddenly spring up as the water droplet rolls off. In the non-monsoon months, it just sways a little every now and then, its dark green leaves shivering in the wind.
I am going to miss living here so much. 

So long.

Its time to bid my goodbyes to this grand country.
I leave
with some good memories,
some growing up,
more understanding,
large amounts of humility,
Inspired
Happy and
Healed.

Thank you America.

P.s - More thoughtful reflection later.