When It Rains

Our country's monsoon is not over yet and forecasters say it will continue.

There were days when our human, eager looking forward to the walk, changed to walking gear with a packed haversack, stepped outside, and it started raining!

Outside, our human stood looking at the falling rain for at least half an hour hoping that it was just a passing shower. When it did not stop for over an hour, our human gave up and went inside like a 'tortoise retracting into its shell'!

The very next fine weather morning, the walk was different. It was slower and cautious.

The fallen tree trunk fell on the path and broke on impact.

Muddy slopes and rain-filled holes.

Beauty of Old Vines

(Continue from the previous post.)

This is how it looks after years of growing together. The wrap-around vine cuts into the trunk.

Our human wanted to place either the hiking pole or haversack against the tree for comparison but could not go near it as it is off the path and on a slope.

This is one of the biggest vine covered with moss that is off the path.

PS: Could not blog earlier from house electrical power trips due to lightnings and continuous thunderstorms.

Vine Riot

Walking down the familiar path daily with one fine day when a scene suddenly caught your eye and you wondered how is it that you did not realise its beauty earlier.

A riot of vines in its raw beauty!

A young vine coiling round an older one which will eventually dig and carve into the older one as time goes by.

Walking with Spiny Turtle

Our human could not walk daily (or blog) due to the monsoon season and can only walk on fair mornings.

Two days ago, our human chanced upon this Spiny Turtle on the path.

On closer scrutiny, it was not "Holey Shell". Though it has a small indentation on its shell; it was on a different spot.

With no hikers in sight, our human slowly used the shoes to guide it to the undergrowth beside the path (our human was absolutely thrilled and grinned widely when it climbed up the shoe); and then covered spiny turtle with fallen leaves for camouflage.

Dead Tree Sculpture

It caught our human's eye when the bright early morning sun hit this dead tree beside the path illuminating its sculpture beauty; this particular scene simply had to be captured. Though walked past it countless times over several years, this area was dim under the thick canopy.

There is another nature's sculpture art along the path but Man's trash spoiled the scene.