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The woods are lovely, dark and deep

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

Down winding paths we find twisted trees

Masti time

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

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

The view

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.

#flowers #sculpture

What a beautiful campus

Contemplating on the #pond

Water lilies

This is too beautiful for me to be able to caption.

#art #devrai

The happiest café owner ever. She was delighted to have the opportunity to feed all the children, and did remarkably well.

कुछ फूल बगीचे के

#flowers #mahabaleshwar

फूलों की कमी नहीं यहाँ

We are leaving these behind

#झरना #waterfall

The magical sounds of nature.

The sounds of water

Savitri river

Which one do you like?

Busy buzzy #bees

And then, across hills, fields, villages, palm trees and beaches, we could see the sea.

More #gnarly #trees to #haunt you at night

The sea at #Kashid is pretty rough. No chance of venturing even near the sea.

Even though the #children can't venture into the #sea, they are still #excited to see it after a long #road trip.

Met up with Pepe the Don after an eternity. Some people truly never change. It's amazing. The same cheerful voice and bright smile.

How #green is my #valley?

पानी
बादल
ऊर्जा
जीवन

Freddiebhai Mercurywale

A candid moment captured by S1. I have no clue what M1 is up to here.

There will come times in your life when you need to decide between spending time with your child and taking care of work/home/life.

Listen to https://open.spotify.com/track/5x9RZg7HfXGY3JayXL3seF before you decide. It has always helped me prioritise.

This might be the last of S1's pics with me.

What do you think about it? Nature from the eyes of a twelve year old. Does the imagery talk to you?

I got videobombed while trying to take a video of S2

S1 captured these candid pics of M2 and M1.

What do you think of them?

S2. Always stands straight for a pic.

Another composition by S1

और फिर जैसे ही नीली छतरी वाले को ज़ोर से छींक आई, चारों तरफ़ पानी ही पानी बरस गया, हरियाली ही हरियाली छा गई, फूल ही फूल उग गए

Shruminate on these

बहुत #coolboy

तूफ़ान और रास्ता

Some people are grossed out by water parks.

Others take to them like a fish takes to water

A one, a two, a three and a four

#waterPark

The #ghats are such an unstoppable adventure

All smiles

The kids weren't with me when I came across this switch. I wonder how tempted they'd have been to toggle it 😁

Sitting among trees. Reading about trees. The joys of a lazy #Bangalore morning.

There's just something about #tree #canopies

There is much beauty in the little things.

The café I was at, had a fly on the wall. Was it listening to my conversations. But I was sitting there all by myself.

Could it listen to the musings of my mind?

Will it keep my secrets?

I was told to go see the #blooms at #CubbonPark. They were enchanting.

As I ambled about Jayanagar after a very satisfying round of sundaes at Corner House, I saw these.

Monster money plant gonna get you tonight.

I was Arthur Dent for a day 😁

Le street art of Bengaluru

Au revoir, Bangalore.

How was the meal? Well, it was fully 10x the price of an equally satisfying meal at a Darshini. But fresh idlis, early in the morning, deep inside an airport, are ❤️. I'm not complaining 😁

#Bangalore has clear blue skies. Clean, breathable air. And frog face cameras staring at the moon. What more does one want?

I have no idea what this was about. But the kids were doing this over and over again. "You have been branded by the chicken. All hail!" Anyone know anything about this? Asking the Google didn't help. Should I be worried?

@msginnygill के cafe का नाश्ता। सदा delectable.

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