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
It has been a while since I posted photos of birds, so here is one I see the most these days - the Oriental Magpie Robin.
There are three of these birds in our garden, and I see them frequently flying around, and can hear their distinctive, melodious call even before I see them! Capturing them on camera, however, has been another matter entirely, and I managed these only because the birds were nice enough to sit on the window ledge near my house, and also pose for a while on the tree right opposite my window!
There are three of these birds in our garden, and I see them frequently flying around, and can hear their distinctive, melodious call even before I see them! Capturing them on camera, however, has been another matter entirely, and I managed these only because the birds were nice enough to sit on the window ledge near my house, and also pose for a while on the tree right opposite my window!
Nice little birds. Nice photos, well taken..
ReplyDeleteThanks Shalu!
DeleteSuch womderful captures, extra special as they are birds and that means a lot of patience :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Mridula! for such reasonably big birds, they are hard to capture! am unsuccessfully trying now for the purple sunbird. its flitting around, but cant get an image!
DeleteMy God! I can't believe it! In Mumbai? What lovely luck, Anu :))
ReplyDeleteWe are lucky to live in an area which is covered with greenery, Julia! tho it comes with its share of problems! and this one is a regular visitor...
DeleteLucky you to get visitors like them. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, Indrani! we are indeed lucky to see such beauties!
DeleteBeautiful bird.. I think ot is cached in Dandeli Jungle.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing with us.
Thank you, Madhukar... this is quite a common bird, seen everywhere in India.
DeleteNice... I miss the sounds of birds chirping (even crow)! You must be hearing that all the time, no?
ReplyDeleteoh yes, Neeraj! birds chirp here all the time , as for crows, they are here all day long!
DeleteSo pretty!!
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