Listen to the reed, how it is complaining! It is telling about separations, ~ Rumi See also: a beautiful post on Rumi’s Song of the reed… The camera acted as my ear when I tried to listen… 😉 Out beyond ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing There is a field… …I’ll meet you there. (Rumi) ——…
Thanks to those who shared this amazing video online, I’d bookmarked it to post it here and am making a quick post as I came across the link again today…
Thanks to my brother-in-law Anand for taking these photos… These birds are nesting in the hollow of a dead coconut tree just opposite to Vijetha’s house! Quite a distance actually, but the 10X Zoom of the Olympus C-750 helped! There were another two parrots who were visitors… Just hanging out… 😉 What I like best…
There was this small tree in a corner of our garden… We even had a swing hanging from one its branches at one time… I used to climb on its branches and it was really nice to sit up there. This same flower that I saw recently reminds me of those days. And also a…
Nature’s secrets… not the secret of the ants and the birds and the mountains or the seas… but one’s own nature as well… …only requires a slight shift in perspective to rediscover them with delight…
With one of my friends, sometimes after we’ve had a good conversation, I feel that my heart feels so light and unburdened. In fact some conversations are so absoulutely fulfilling that I become so happy at the end of it, irrespective of any outcome (or lack of it) of the conversation! How come this happens?…
Rakesh had once sent out a mail of that subject, having this link to a video… Everyone Must See This! Some comments on that link were pretty funny 🙂 What if… What if the hole world went by this video’s morrals? by Sun-Ra, 26th, October what if… what if the whole world knew the difference between…
cormorant landing Originally uploaded by common man. Watch for the cormorants at Sankey Lake… they usually line up near the north eastern shore. This was taken using a friend’s 75-300 lens mounted on a Canon 350D, handheld. Earlier in the evening, a passer-by photographer had advised me to lean against something while handholdng a long…
Slight modification of a famous quote for this photo 😉
kaage Originally uploaded by common man. This is this particular common man’s favorite common bird – a crow. This fellow was flying around Sankey Lake. There are lots of them here, and one can see them bathing, and balancing on a narrow thin branch, etc Crows are really intelligent birds, capable of using tools (who…
