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| Rain falls among valley |
The first rain
is always special and the scent of soil stimulates a sense of joy. A rain amid
summer (heat) is too special, whether it last for a minute or an hour the
enthusiasm has nothing equal. I experienced the first rain of summer last week,
and it was wonderful to see rain fall from all directions in this newly shifted
house. The earth was at rapid sucking the water as quick possible to distribute
to every species on earth. No doubt water is a source of energy to withstand on
earth but sadly we aren't blessed with enough rain and the millimeters hardly
touch the average.
Half a month
past I posted here and I was indeed out of touch with blogging and the
scorching summer heat put down every things inspiring to write and cousins
visiting and vacation time and traveling kept me quite away from online
activity. My first rain of this summer was actually when I was close to Western
Ghats before climbing to our destination on Kodaikanal Hills. The rain was
visible far away falling amid the valleys and while passing the ghats we find
it wandering fabulously on plains like wide tornado. It was wonderful
experiencing rain or monsoon on mountain sides and bearing cool breeze blow
down the hills.
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| Kodaikanal Lake |
It was a family
vacation come exploring places and traveling on roads untraveled and staying in
an environment so pleasant and surrounded by uniquely chirping birds and coffee
estates and blanket of foliage and tall trees.
I don’t had a mind leaving the place but other plans waited ahead took
me to Kodaikanal and unlike ever it was very cold and evenings are windy and
raining because of the arrival of monsoon, we are forced to cancel our plan of
extending. But once on plains, things are quite strange and sun baked us on fire.
The obvious reason to be cold and hot is nothing, the weather always wonder
with it’s distinguish feature.
Post vacation I
experienced swelling feet and lately aching knee become soar and seem to
intense only and also slightly unbalance at stood. We still find some inconvenient which I believe
will become normal very soon with the new house and we also experience extreme
summer heat here and the wind blows hot air even after the core summer season
ends. Glad it rains sometime in evening as a relief for day’s fry pan!
i am sorry about the heat and drought. at least you had a little rain for a refresher. even better, that you had family time away. :)
ReplyDeleteglad to hear from you, jeevan!
Summer rains are special all around the world. I especially like rain at night when I can hear it hitting the roof while falling asleep. I really like your first photo.
ReplyDeleteGood post, Jeevan.
ReplyDeleteSeems that the rains have hit everywhere. Its been visiting here too :-)
now earth is cold... rain comes with nice shower of water in people's mind as well as in wells. In this year Kerala faced shortage of water in rural areas.
ReplyDeletethanks jeevan
We need a lot of rain here in order to keep the water tables replenished. Fortunately, there is a small pond near our house, which makes things better. But, rain is our only saviour!
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Few things inspire me the way a warm summer rain does. Like you say, it really opens up the senses!! Rain is very soothing to the soul.
ReplyDeleteamazing post!
ReplyDeletereally, the fantastic destination to the visit in the summer and pictures have a unique charm to first time travel.
Hope you are feeling better now. Looks as if you had a wonderful vacation though with family and traveling....
ReplyDeleteI love Summer Rains --when it is so Hot... Seems to cool things off --at least temporarily... We haven't had any really hot weather here yet --thank goodness.
Hugs,
Betsy
It started raining here to Jeevan..
ReplyDeleteit's so calming and relaxing after so many days of scorching heat :)
Enjoy rains !!
First rain is always special. I wish you speedy recovery and good to see you back in the blog world.
ReplyDeleteOh, you must long for the cool of the rain. Lovely shots! Hope you can get some coolness in your new house.
ReplyDeleteI visited this place some years back, it is indeed a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back :)
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear about your travel expedition, the first sight of the rains in the mountains sounds very refreshing, like a joy! Here's wishing you speedy recovery and hope you see a lot of rains and coolness in the days to come. Beautiful pictures, loved them!
I hope you are feeling better now, Jeevan!
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