Nature fascinates all
of us in one or other ways. And I being a nature lover get
surprised by its various colors. Few days back I started to write something
about winters in north India, specifically in Delhi, this year but could not
write anything substantive. Then after few days of discarding that draft I started
writing this. J J
Being a mountain
native, I love mountains. The whole aura of mountain is just so peaceful and
relaxing and if you handover yourself to this boon of Mother Nature you will
feel as if you are in heaven. May be this is the reason, people who live in
mountains are so cheerful and always smiling in spite of the fact that they
have tougher life compared to us.
Though I could not
visit my own village in past few years but mountains never fail to call me into
their lap in last 6 years. Either it’s my own Valley of Nainital, or Heaven on Earth Kashmir,
beautiful Hill Station on Aravali Range Mount
Abu or Queen of mountains Mussoori, a
pilgrimage to Mata Vaisho devi in Jammu or
breath taking views at Nilgiri Hills of Ooty
and Coonoor.
My love for nature
increased exponentially when I get a chance to visit Mumbai in 2007. I saw only very popular places of Mumbai in my first visit but when I saw the huge Arabian
Sea in front of me, like my name I was feeling like Meen (fish) J who was dying to touch the salt water. I had
never seen such a big water body earlier in my life. Only water and water till
the place you could see. I was still amazed and a child inside me was jumping
with happiness, and then I saw the first sun set of my life standing on a sea
shore. Orange colored sun painted whole sky in orange and red color, the sea
which was of grey color earlier slowly turned into the color of melted gold. The
noise of waves were vanished and it feels like sea went busy for welcoming the
setting sun. A awe stricken Mee who had seen only heavenly beautiful sunrises
of mountains was standing on stones at shore making exact picture in my mind of
that beautiful sunset.
But it doesn’t mean
that only mountain and sea shores are beautiful. If you look at clouds and sunrise
or sunset in your own city wherever you are you would find it beautiful. Even
the washed roads and trees and smell of earth are same everywhere after rains. Yeah
being a north Indian and spend whole my life in Lucknow I know it is not
possible in the month of April, May and June (effect of Tropic of cancer
crossing from India) when temperature rises to 40+ everyday but still we can
enjoy the changing weather, rains, clouds, sunsets, sunrises wherever we are.
As a popular saying goes beauty
lies in the eye of the beheld.
J
So open you arms everyday to embrace the beauty of Mother Nature and get
refresh and recharged for the day.
Here are some of my clicks.. J
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