Magic Drops

 Gutta cavat lapidem (Dripping water hollows out a stone)
        -  Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto, Book 3, no. 10, 1. 5

I've always been fascinated by water drops.

More so when I try to photograph them. 

The following is an experiment I did,  trying out High Speed photography.  

This is a photograph of a water drop falling from a tap into a very plain glass bowl.

Taken on my Canon EOS  1100D.

Tough & Standing.

My maternal grandfather(Appa)'s ancestors came from a village in Kokan, much inland from the coast.  History is available, for  7 generations before my grandfather. 

We travelled to this place to pay our respects .

The house is situated away from  the road, sloping down into the rice fields below. Surrounded on three sides by wide green rice fields, and coconut and mango groves  in the distance, the house stands facing it all.  5 generations lived there. And the last 2 generations  moved to the big cities of Mumbai and Pune.  

Facing the rice fields, is the samadhi (memorial)  of the  person who is considered the  original ancestor, and everyday, a lamp is lit in an alcove at the memorial.

Something tough and resilient about the structure, that has seen ups and downs, good days, bad days, bad weather, torrential rains, , and possibly, hundreds of years before,  a full running house; there is even a lock hanging  above one of the doors.

Today,  it stands, watching it all,  completely overrun by the  greens....

(The above has been written for me by my mother.She had visited it,  first 52 years ago with my grandparents ,  and now with me,  and was able to explain the history to me)

Taken on Canon A530 point & shoot camera....

Romeo & Juliet.....

                                                  I wonder where the other one went ??

Life and times of Mr. Snail.....

                                   Found Mr. Snail relaxing on the greens near the Swimming pool.

                                                                Home Sweet Home!

Monsoon Going-ons.....

The Guesthouse at the campus is surrounded by a lot of natural as well as landscaped greenery. Monsoon is a  good time to observe the going-ons. The guesthouse is on the banks of the Powai lake situated between the lake and an internal man-made pond which u see below.

They take care of there own......Torrential rains, stamping humans, wet mud, dogs running around, whipping winds :   and quietly to one side a concerned Ant helps take an injured/ dead relative safely home across the leaf.

The Glorious Green.

The green of the land was as enchanting as the grey of the sea.... Further pictures from our Konkan road trip.

A view of the Konkan Railway that passes through very difficult terrain. The first major railway project after the British left. This is a view on the Pen - Mangaon stretch.

A View of Velneshwar village from the MTDC holiday home on the hill near the beach.

A typical road leading to the village, Nevre.

My paternal ancestors came from Nevre.....

En route to Ratnagiri on the newly opened coastal highway. The coconut and rice landscape between Nevre and where we were, on the hill. 

Is it true for people or houses?



Some old, simple and native....Some prosperous, modern and new....

(visiting the village from where my mother's ancestors came)

A typical view from the mountain roads in Konkan.....The undulating green Konkan landscape and a river sneaking by....











Please shut off the music in this blog by scrolling down the side bar and then watch the video. Konkan in all its monsoon glory.......