Even more flowers
The first rains of this year. Also the first of many new conversations with an old friend. Peppered with old memories but actually I should say….sweetened by them rather than embittered. I am going to meet this monsoon with joy for a change.
The deceptively passionate summers have come and gone. They left me parched, dry and colourless and stripped of everything that made me joyful and alive and me. Monsoon was the season I was born in after all. And I am a water person. Enough burnt, it is time to water my soul and make my life green and beautiful again.
I took this photograph last year in the week leading to Ganesh Chaturti. Soon, very soon….the rains will be here, the festivities will began and there will be even more flowers!
Prolific Dyslexic on 
Radha on 
IdeaSmith on 
Parth on 
anand on 
le on 
Ruvy on 
umashankar on 
1Valhalla
wrote on 11 June 2007 at 10:59
Just as a conversation walking under the stars for one was the same conversation under morning rays streaming through a window, the clouds shied away the same time your monsoons started.
It’s been a good day today.
2S
wrote on 11 June 2007 at 13:29
Full of the promise of life…
3Ginger Girl
wrote on 11 June 2007 at 22:18
I miss Ganapati!!!!
I hope I can come back for it
)
4Brad
wrote on 12 June 2007 at 2:55
August born, your complementary (not complimentary) A.E. arrives sooner than expected. 13th evening. Fire meets Water then!:P
5perspectiveinc
wrote on 12 June 2007 at 6:35
I love first rains.. there is something very joyous about them!
6ideasmith
wrote on 12 June 2007 at 10:26
@ Valhalla: Ditto and more.
@ S: The monsoons? Me? Both?
@ Ginger Girl: Oh, do! How can a Mumbaiker miss Lalbagh cha raja?
@ Brad: Yippee! Will you call me when you touch down?
@ Perspectiveinc: There’s something joyous about everything new…including mornings!
7rambler
wrote on 16 June 2007 at 8:33
Somehow I felt “many new conversations with an old friend.” this was lost in your post, sounds like you did enjoy this a lot..
8ideasmith
wrote on 16 June 2007 at 14:39
@ rambler: You’re perceptive.
9rambler
wrote on 16 June 2007 at 22:58
just wondering, should I consider that as a compliment?
10ideasmith
wrote on 17 June 2007 at 19:30
@ rambler: Perhaps.