soliloquies in the outdoors…
Rosefinch, like most passerines, is quite a playful creature despite the grumpy appearance that the short, stout bill gives them… like an emoji, they add a dollop of brightness to the otherwise dark font of the forest or the meadow… forever restive and timorous, yet carrying a defiant expression… for size hardly matters when it …
Fire and ice atop stoic summits is an intriguing interplay, for the fire doesn’t burn and the ice tends to warm… the light is forever in flux while the ice is a statis in perpetuity… twixt the two, the notions of time stand flummoxed… dawn and dusk, both extremities bestowed with a benevolent sun, one …
Bali Pass trek in Uttarakhand 🇮🇳 is high-altitude Himalayan trail from Sankri village to Janki Chatti, crossing the 4,900 metre Bali Pass 🏔️
Serin is the quintessential passerine, forever restive, much like the human these days… musing on a fire-fronted serin, Markha🏔️, Ladakh 🇮🇳
Musing on a Streaked laughingthrush, apple and cherry orchards of Thanedar, Himachal Pradesh 🏔️, India 🏔️
Musing on Musk larkspur, a high altitude flower 🪻 growing between 4,300 to 5,500 metres in Himalayan and trans-Himalayan regions 🏔️…
Mountains are rocks anyway, made by vomiting volcanoes or tectonic tantrums… in their folds, the animate tries to find its inanimate roots…
Bright plumage, brilliant camouflage, restive yet reticent dispositions, that sums these finches up… musing on black-and-yellow grosbeaks, Himachal Pradesh 🏔️, India 🇮🇳
One always yearns for rolling hills, perhaps it is that seeming infinite or the symmetry.. musing on mountains, hiking in the #Himalaya 🏔️
Musing on the breeding season frenzies of black redstarts, flycatchers that migrate to high-altitude Himalaya 🏔️, Markha Valley, Ladakh 🇮🇳