Back Water Evenings

 In my previous posts,we talked about the travelling  to Alalppuzha via the Alappuzha -Changancherry Route (see here: www.kuttanaddiaries.blogspot.in/2014/02/picture-postcards-from-alappuzha.html). But, what I didn't mention is that bus rides during the evenings through the Alappuzha -Changanasherry Road, more popular as the AC Road, are a breath taking experience.

As the sun prepares to plunge into the water logged paddy fields, one wonders if that is why the rice from the region is slightly golden yellow in color. As farmers retire from a busy day on the fields to the comforts of their little traditionally tiled houses far off the coconut trees that surround the fields sway to the little cold yet pleasant wind blowing in from the sea.

As the http://www.keralatourism.org/ site will tell you the Alappuzha Tourism Department have many laid-back villas in these serene locations that provide comfortable accommodations at affordable rates to the tourist. Or if you prefer the way of the locals, long-drive in, have a cool dip in the canal, and lay back to enjoy the view on your car hood. Monsoons can be spectacular but a bit uncomfortable for those not particularly into rain-dances, as you can see here www.kuttanaddiaries.blogspot.in . So as night falls, if you are lucky to be in on a clear day, you can witness the widest and most remarkable night sky that a human eye can see.

For now, enjoy these photographs from God's own holiday spot. :)

      

Monsoons Of Kuttanaad

Every week for the past five years, I have traveled down through the rice bowl of Kerala. Kuttanaad as it is locally known has never in those five years even for once failed to amaze me by its exotic beauty. The regions around it though similar cannot parallel it. During the monsoons the area spills over literally and its beauty..? Well, it just goes overboard.

   Here, I have tried to capture in a few frames most of it though I must admit it was more a failure. But what I have managed to capture is the just-out-the-bath-serenity look that the place adorns during the monsoons.

     "If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing
 that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water."

- Jan Erik Vold, What All The World Knows

 “A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”   

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of  humans.” 
― Sherwood Smith

 Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.-  Sir Walter Raleigh(1552 - 1618)

 “They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

" The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy."
- Uvavanuk

             "You could not step twice into the same rivers;
                 for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
                       -  Heraclitus of Ephesus 

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”   

― Nicholas Sparks

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of you are found all the aspects of existence.”   - Kahlil Gibran

 "If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water."

-  Loren Eisley

" A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable." 

 -William Wordsworth

"Everywhere water is a thing of beauty gleaming in the dewdrop, 
singing in the summer rain." 
-  John Ballantine Gough

"Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through."  - Daniel