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Contemplating on the #pond

What a beautiful campus

#flowers #sculpture

The picture is hastily taken. But if you zoom in, you'll see the artist has depicted the balance between industrialisation and conservation very beautifully.

The view

Unlike my children, S1 likes being photographed, and likes photographing me.

#berries. Good to look at, but very bitter.

Masti time

Down winding paths we find twisted trees

Me: This is a pod. All the ingredients of life are within this pod. Everything life needs to sprout again. A tree packages this pod and gives it to you. You can take it anywhere you like and bury it into the ground; life will sprout again. Isn't that magical.

M2: Meh

The woods are lovely, dark and deep

Deeper and deeper into the #forest we went. Farther and farther

Another #mossy #tree

This is a complete #plant in six inches. Leaf, stem, #flower.

Life has tremendous #zeal to exist. It will sprout anywhere. And then reproduce in the blink of an eye.

And yet we are going through an unforeseen extinction. Imagine the tremendous force and violence that humanity is exerting on nature, in order for it to receed, and for us to prevail.

This reminds me of Beebop and Rocksteady

#TMNT

#nofilter #nocaption #flower #clusterflower

Like me, do you also fancy #moss, #litchen and #fungi?

Then we trooped into a #forest

Boom

Because you people like #mushrooms so much. This one is big, fat and fixed on the ground.

We found a familiar friend

Gnarly trees ❤️

Shrooms!

Om nom nom

How now
Brown pao

#kids in a candy store

It just doesn't stop coming down.

We are hardly complaining 😁

Not a huge fan of civilization, but sometimes markets can be nice and quaint. We'd all just bought ourselves raincoats and were ready to brave the #rain in style. Except M2, who didn't like any of the choices available in his size. Being the smallest can be annoying.

If you look carefully dead center, you will see a tree partially obscured by fog, clouds and rain. I'm posting nofilter because all filters were making the tree vanish. What I really need is a filter to convert this pic into a watercolour painting 🎨

S1: मेरी खाते हुए picture लोगे तो I'll act crazy.

When you're stuck in the rain, even #Maggi looks sumptuous

S2 in a cute umbrella hat.

M2

The #clouds are #pouring from up above and #billowing in from below. We struggled to get where we are. Now we are hiding under a tarp and watching others have a hard time 😜

#Street #food in the #rain (caption to be read to the tune of "brown girl in the rain")

Hard to take good photographs when it's pouring as much as it is. The #ghats in the #rain are something else.

We are all #dressed to take on the #rain

When it #rains as much as it does at #mahabaleshwar, when the #trees grow #moss

#strawberries #cream #icecream and everything #nice

And then the #rain came down

#beforetherains

बरखा बहार आई

बताइए हम कहाँ हैं #whereami

#Village #Kaza

Moo time

Because you people like #cows so much

The #flowers of #Narkanda

#rose

At the Café #Deyzor in #Kaza, junior had the delectable #muesli with #fruits and #yogurt.

We had a lot more food there, that I did not take pictures of. Excellent food, excellent service. And then they let us park 🏕 our #caravan in their backyard and use their pit toilet. For free. Best people ever.

When Deepak found a toy to play with, and M1 tried explaining to him that this was a political party's symbol and flag.

The #naughty #kids of #Pooh. My kids made good friends with them.

Back in the #plains, we stopped over at a dhaba. They gave us a bottle of #packaged #water without us asking for it. I only saw the bottle on our table after I saw it in the bill. They were doing this with all customers.

What do you see in the pic? A stack of cold water? Or a pile of #waste #plastic. Once your perspective changes, it never goes back.

24 hours before Karnal, we had had breakfast in Narkanda. The rates for everything more than doubled in this distance. How 😲?

#eagle #snowcappedmountain #Spiti #SpitiValley #Kaza

Met with our first #accident yesterday. A minor one. A pick up truck was badly parked at a turn on the road down from Chail. While I was trying to negotiate past it, an impatient bus going uphill dinged our car. I asked it to wait while I back out of the situation, but it kept going, rubbing the door handle.

The kids want you to know that this is our 200th post 📯

It's 7:45 am and the #skies over #Kurukshetra are #overcast. Its been a pleaseant 25°C since we entered the plains. We are actually driving without air conditioning. Did we bring the mountain #weather with us?

Now we are #driving through the #hills of #Chail while it lightly #drizzles.

We indulged in some obligatory #adventure #activities 😁

It's over and out for us from #Kufri.

These #insects made the kids #jump. Even though they are sitting perfectly still. They're a little more than an inch in length.

Managed to take one photograph without any trash visible. Now to get out of here real quick. 😷

The #hills of #Kufri are full of #trash, #tree #stumps, #people and #cars. Sad.

The #drive and the #road are amazing, just like @deepankarbasu had said.

Like, literally? सेब नियंत्रण कक्ष!
The #apple #uprising is coming. We need to keep the apples under #control. 🍏 🤪

M2: is this where they imprison apples?