Seen anything greener?
Wouldn't mind getting marooned on an island like this one!
Rain on a thatched roof
Ronaldos in the making!
Rain in Kerala is a beauty to behold - transports you to a completely different world altogether. I’ve often felt that if there is heaven on earth, it must be in some parts of Kerala during the rains. These pictures are testimony of that.
This post is dedicated to a friend -'who shares my love for God's own country and the rains there...'
Rain is what I love. That explains why I was not fond of the rhyme ‘Rain rain go away’ in childhood…my baby loves that rhyme! Rain…it’s truly the most beautiful and blessing magnificent act of nature. (Yeah I say this despite the July 26 deluge in Mumbai!)
Some of my most vivid sensations are of the rain; I love
- The smell that springs from dry earth, when the first drops of rain fall on it…
- The feel of wet grass under your feet after a sudden downpour.
- The sound of the rain, pitter-patter on the ground…
- The sight of rain drops trickling from the roof and car windows…
- Cupping my hands to form a pool of rain, and wiping my face with the water…
- Turning my face towards the sky, and feeling the drops fall on my face…
- The freshness in the atmosphere and the earth after the rains…
- Fresh silvery green color of trees, dewy drops on leaves and flowers, puddles on the ground that go splash…
- The hot cuppa kapi Chiti used to make for me and Swe during rainy afternoons
- The steaming hot bajjis with lotssaa tomato ketchup…that Swe and me used to clean up, in the midst of sweet nothings.
- The shopping for rainwear…colourful umbrellas….slippers (used to be from Bata all the while), raincoats… rainproof bags…(ask me…was born a shopaholic!)
Some of my most vivid sensations are of the rain; I love
- The smell that springs from dry earth, when the first drops of rain fall on it…
- The feel of wet grass under your feet after a sudden downpour.
- The sound of the rain, pitter-patter on the ground…
- The sight of rain drops trickling from the roof and car windows…
- Cupping my hands to form a pool of rain, and wiping my face with the water…
- Turning my face towards the sky, and feeling the drops fall on my face…
- The freshness in the atmosphere and the earth after the rains…
- Fresh silvery green color of trees, dewy drops on leaves and flowers, puddles on the ground that go splash…
- The hot cuppa kapi Chiti used to make for me and Swe during rainy afternoons
- The steaming hot bajjis with lotssaa tomato ketchup…that Swe and me used to clean up, in the midst of sweet nothings.
- The shopping for rainwear…colourful umbrellas….slippers (used to be from Bata all the while), raincoats… rainproof bags…(ask me…was born a shopaholic!)
- Visit to temples (more so in kerala) where you get to encounter the open sky to have a darshanam of the diety. The teeny- weeny drops falling on you feel like blessings from the skies above!
Wishlist: To spend a monsoon weekend in an idyllic town in Kerala! Savour Vaazhakaai appam during the rain with steaming hot chai on a houseboat!
Wishlist: To spend a monsoon weekend in an idyllic town in Kerala! Savour Vaazhakaai appam during the rain with steaming hot chai on a houseboat!
Thank you note: Pictures courtesy - Manorma publications and a friend who is nearly as crazy as me about the rains...and the picture it paints in Kerala.
2 comments:
Rain, feel it on my fingertips...a bit on rain, a bit on love – I think it was Madonna...rain in kerala is the wildest most romantic ever. It pours like it will never stop and then some more. You see these little wonders – little channels that become rivers overnight! A million black umbrellas all jostling of space. The almost by-the-calendar regularity with which it just has to pour on the 1st of June - the 1st day of school...N the rains in kerala's hills is a time-space coordinate alltogether.
ok, the last line abv was supposed to read "a different time space coordinate"!! see what just thinkg abt all of it can do to the brain? :o)
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