nature's spotlight

the view from kot during the rainy season can be really stunning. the lukamari of the badal and the ghaam means an ever changing landscape. best is when the sun peeks in from between the clouds and sends a shaft of golden light down to the ground.. highlighting whatever falls in its way down from the heavens... a patch of field sometimes, an entire township sometimes.. as if it is a drama and the spotlight shifts from one character to the next on stage....

harisiddhi takes centre stage

then it's sunakothi housing complex' turn

soon half the valley gets its share

then it's the turn of the jhaukhel area (south of changu narayan)

nature's spotlight on many areas in lalitpur

then it is back to kantipuri nagari
and the interplay between the two districts
the single spotlight near chapagaun area

once the sun dipped over the clouded kathmandu valley rim, the high cumulous clouds over phulchowki reflected the setting sun's golden glow over bistachhap valley

and then, of course, from kot once can also see the disturbing sights of the natural slopes and forests in the outskirts of kathmandu levelled by the excavator's hungry claws into little housing plots... where are our zoning laws?

near lubhu area

beyond godavari village resort

on murali mountain

and below kot ... and this phenomenon of khaarney, taachhney , tukraauney, bikri garney, is happening all over the valley... soon, just as i wrote in my article.. it will come down to "kahan khelchhan ti nani haru?" http://www.himalkhabar.com/hkp/news.php?id=2485

another disturbing sight this monsoon has been the lack of rain atually. already at the end of july, large tracts of khet still not have not had enough water for flooding for ropain
below kot danda.. you can see the fallow khet and the bright green patches where the paddy seedlings are waiting for transplantation

it is the same case in the fields nearby.. only those whose khet were close to godabari khola have been able to have ropain

it is the same case in the fields in bistachhap, on the otherside of kot danda... the dhaan ko biu are being scorched by the sun

and then of course, a little bit of rain bring the jugaa into action.

this leech was waiting in attention on our porch, probably carried on my slippers from the garden. when robin wagged his finger near it.. it lunged towards the course of heat or scent or whatever it is that makes jugaa do the wild swinging from side to side jig