Sparrows

Leaving back memories, the house bird sparrows flew far away and become a rare species in cities. There are days as child trying to catch the sparrows that often visit our balconies and sometimes they built there hay nest in space within pillars and sewage pipes. It’s so nice seeing those small sparrows, sitting in a line on the cable wires that pass across the streets and pierce to feed grain left over the balcony.

Today I see sparrows that are two times larges than those similar ones in light brown and grayish color with tiny beaks. There sweet twitters are something lost reflecting in ears that I can’t recall back in memories. Turn over of large trees and green space into skyscrapers and concrete floors, and lose of time in human to feed grains, the birds drew away from city.

Sparrows are some species survive along human habitation and what all affect us reflects in them and thus the change in lifestyle and passion disturbed there dwelling. Even in late 90s sparrows were spread across in city independently and it was very short in time and period they went invisible almost. They always pick there place for nesting is inside or at the entrance of homes, storehouses and elsewhere people residing. In villages, people tie a bunch of paddy at there home entrance to treat the little birds the grains and to help nesting.

I find some sparrows in valparai surviving along the people dwelling and a sparrow had nested above the shutter of a musical store in a bustle road, where they wander freely and friendly with people at stretching hands end. I wished then I had few of them around my place. Then one morning, I saw a lonely sparrow sitting on a flower pot in the front yard of Solaiyar house and later when I check the capture, the background came in as a surprise with the curved lane of the Sholayar dam. These birds are small, and shares very small space in our neighbor and thinking about them is nostalgia.

உறவுகள் / Relations

கொண்டாட்டம் என்றால் கூடவரும் உறவுகள்
கஷ்டம் என்றால் கையை கட்டி நிற்கும்

ஊர்கோலம் என்றால் ஓடிவரும் உறவுகள்
உதவி என்றால் ஓரமாக நின்று வேடிக்கை பார்க்கும்

தனக்கென்றால் தலை நீட்டும் உறவுகள்
ஒரு சிறு வேலை என்றால் வேறாளை பார் என்னும்.

இன்றைய உறவுகள் அறிமுக நிலையில்
அறிவு வளர்ச்சியில் அறிந்து கொள்ளாமல் போனதால்.

தொலைந்து போன உறவுகள் நம் நினைவலையில்
நாம் உறவாடிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறோம் இன்று இணைவலையில்.

வாழும் பொது வராத, பார்க்காத, பழகாத உறவுகள்
இறந்த பின் வாடுவதும் உறவாடுவதும் ஏனோ?

வாழும் பொது காட்டாத அன்பும் ஆதரவும்
இறந்த பின் வரும் பண்பு மட்டும் ஏனோ?

வாழும் பொது வாழ்த்தாத இதயம்
இறந்த பின் வரும் கண்ணிர் மட்டும் ஏனோ?

Celebration means, come along relations
difficulty means, hands bind to stand

Merry go around means, run along relations
aid means, stand at the edge and look in amuse

For self means, head extending relations
a small work means, says to see some others

Today’s relations are in introducing stage
as we went unknowing in knowledge development

The lost relations are in our memory web
we’re practicing relationship today in internet web

Relations that don’t come saw and practice while living
what does in fading and practicing relationship after death?

Love and support that doesn’t show while living
what does the character that comes after death?

Heart that doesn’t wish while living
what does the tears that come after death?

Kaif sizzle with slice

I wonder it’s an ad to promote Slice or Katrina Kaif?

I have been watching this ad for sometime lately, and the ad doesn’t give much importance to slice than kaif nor I forget to check out something except kaif. The always pretty woman is such sizzling in this AD and dazzling in red gown, her expressions and movements are simple awesome and sensuous. Anyone would fall in love and romance at the end of this ad, and nothing comes into the frame while seeing kaif.

p.s. (check previous post for great Hornbills)

Something about travelling and Great Hornbill

If you know I’m a travel enthusiastic, travelling is my passion which I like to have often. Lately I have strong emotions to go out in seek of some remedy to my insane and it works well when I was in travelling and resting in hills. I was forced to leave home and see people as a consolation to my insane, and I am somehow comfortable now, with various moments gripping my mind and sweeping or hiding away those injurious thoughts.

Though whatever I planned hasn’t happened quite, I tried to enjoy a lot of things that came in as surprise and felt that more than expecting, enjoying the thing that comes in hand does not disappoint. It was a wonderful journey into Anaimalai hills of pollachi and sighting some rare and wild animals, forest atmosphere and pleasing weather in hill tops, while bright sunshine and farm houses and flowing canals in-between coconut groves and tea estates of valparai are few more resumes again.

Except pollachi IB – the one we stayed last time also, the various places we stayed may be more or less in comfort, but has something to wonder at its structure and surrounding. The nights are embraced in moderate cold and pleasant inside, and the sustain silence makes easier in listing to birds chirping and hornbills singing. Just opposite to our bison lodge in topslip, the great hornbills have build there nests in the large number of trees and makes clear and loud vocal at night.

One afternoon, while wandering without heading to lodge, we’re glad to meet an old man, who was a guide in topslip, taking visitors into the forest by foot and in van. He was taking rest under a bus stop opposite to our lodge and we get to chat with him for sometime about the forest and animals, and thus he says that this is the time hornbill’s nest and breed chicks. So the visitors are not allowed to go inside the large clumps of trees.

As we’re interested about the great hornbills, and liked to know something about it and he says they make unique sweet noises while flying above and makes it louder in breeding season to call the male, and later they sing in unison. The female bird builds the nests in hollows of large trees and imprisons itself with a plaster made up by feces, leaving a slit and lives until the chicks partially grow. During this time the male brings food and feed female through the slit and the chicks follow the same method and seal it again, ones the female comes out.

It was a surprising sight on the Sholayar dam - Valparai, where I saw a great hornbill for the first time, chased by crows to sit and go on by a nearby tree. First looking at its mass I thought it was a huge crane, but only seeing its long colorful curved beak I find it was a hornbill. While staring at the beauty, I went wow… at moment looking at its magnificent and being late in capture, the gorgeous was chased away by crows, but somehow I manned to click few shots that came out here.

While traveling somewhere around anaimalai, I thought are we illegal to this land and when I think back it sense me right. We just go in seek of nature and in love, but not almost realize we’re entering someone’s home and just lost our space in urban development. Many years age we have been sharing the similar amount of space and greenery, but we destroyed everything for our comfort and development and go in seek of nature which is pure and pristine left over at forest and mountains terrain. Sometimes we have to acknowledge the mistake about not controlling our desire and should always keep in mind that our existence should not disturb any nature resources, as we’re like thieves at that present and should follow the universal rule of maintaining silent and let no marks exists. We can’t keep much distance from the nature resources and it has something for every one of us to live and we also have to keep in mind that we let live the resource as it is for our future to exist. Its nature, we always crave for what we don’t have.

Fragrance of love, life & flower

Life is a lovely flower
where love is a fragrance

Life is a blooming flower
where heart opens for love

Life is a peaceful flower
where insects test patience

Life is a thorns bed
where we bear like a flower

Life is a petal
where our family is a flower

Love is an essence of life
which we share with others

Love has an inherent like a flower
which attracts each other

Love has the nectar
which makes life sweeter

Love is a bond creeper
where we breathe like a flower

Love makes life beautiful
like a flower to a plant

p.s.I'm back from vacation on sunday and the flower in the picture above is Champaca – popularly known as Shenbagam in tamil. The flower that belongs to a large evergreen tree Michelia Champaca - native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, is best known for its strongly fragrant yellow or white flowers. and the flower was captured in valparai