Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
Its been a while since I posted any bird photos on the blog...So here are some photos of Bulbuls....
I see Bulbuls every day....... These Red Whiskered Bulbuls come home to eat the food we put out for the birds....
The Red Vented bulbuls, for some reason, never come to eat the scraps of food. They are busy eating whatever food is available on the trees around our house...
And then, there are these... cousins of the birds which come to our house, these birds live far far away... in the cold climes of the Himalays, these birds are just as common... These are the Himalayan Bulbuls. I clicked these photos on my recent trip to Vaishnodevi.
I see Bulbuls every day....... These Red Whiskered Bulbuls come home to eat the food we put out for the birds....
The Red Vented bulbuls, for some reason, never come to eat the scraps of food. They are busy eating whatever food is available on the trees around our house...
And then, there are these... cousins of the birds which come to our house, these birds live far far away... in the cold climes of the Himalays, these birds are just as common... These are the Himalayan Bulbuls. I clicked these photos on my recent trip to Vaishnodevi.
I love the hairstyle of the Himalayan Bulbuls a lot. Lovely clicks.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mridula!! I love that too!
DeleteNice clicks.. I find them around my house too. They chirp almost throughout the mornings and the evenings.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ashwini!
Deletelovely pics... the third one looks so cute :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Ash!! I love that one too!
Deletethe himalayan bulbuls are so chic ! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThats an interesting way of describing them, Shruti!!
DeleteExtremely beautiful captures. I am yet to spot one around my home in Kerala.
ReplyDeleteTHanks PNS! I am so surprised to hear that! I see these birds here all the time and they are quite common wherever i have been...
Deletenice!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Krishna!
DeleteWonderful photography. The bulbuls look beautiful.
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