Brain Fever! Brain Fever! Brain Fever! Today I have a guest post from a fellow birder and wildlife enthusiast. Hemant, very kindly agreed to put together his forest adventure to Corbett National Park, in the form of a free flowing verse/poem.
“My life is better with every year of living it.” ~ Rachel Maddo “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” ~ Larry Lorenzoni
“I am rooted, but I flow.” – Virginia Woolf Six Months of “Balanced Flow”
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
A spring morning spent reviving memories and making memories by a Bottle Brush tree.
“Be like a tree. Stay grounded, keep growing and know when to let go.” tinybuddha.com It’s spring in our part of the world. While there is a riot of colours bedecking the outdoors, there are innumerable trees busy shedding and letting go. The new shoots are slowly but surely sprouting. These pictures where taken about two weeks back, before the lockdown. Now going on car drives is a distant dream, for sometime at least. Though the first picture…
“The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Sunshine in my Neighbourhood I chance upon this stunning Laburnum (also known as Amaltas, in Hindi) every morning,…
“We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.” The Bees
“Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” ― Herman Hesse @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Linking up with our Tree-lady Parul for #TTL
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” – Joyce Kilmer