DAILY PHOTO: Landscapes of Ladakh

Taken in August of 2016 on the Srinagar-Leh Highway in Ladakh

 

The ubiquitous Buddhist Monastery (Lamayuru, I believe)

 

Green oases line the valleys among otherwise desolate landscapes.

DAILY PHOTO: Trees on the African Savannah

Taken in May of 2017 in Kenya

 

DAILY PHOTO: Tungabhadra River

Taken in November of 2013 in Hampi

DAILY PHOTO: Peacock

Taken on September 30, 2017 at the Kamla Nehru Zoo in Ahmedabad

Above are male (hence, peacock) Indian Peafowl (a.k.a. Blue Peafowl or Pavo cristatus.)

DAILY PHOTO: Common Indian Monitor & Amber Waves

Taken in June of 2015 near Manali

DAILY PHOTO: Scene from a Watering Hole

Taken in May of 2017 in Botswana

DAILY PHOTO: Livestock on a Kashmiri Trail

Taken in August of 2016 on the trail between Sonamarg and Naranag

DAILY PHOTO: Cape Buffalo with Egret

Taken at Amboseli National Park in May of 2017

POEM: Nature Needs No Selfies

Last week, there were vast patches
of wildflowers
in the understory.

Now, a faint few hangers-on remain.

Next week, they’ll be but a memory–
a residue of consciousness,
a dying homage to the worthy memory
of their existence.

In ten years time, this florid story
will be gone to all.

Nature needs no selfies.

She changes states without concern
for legacy or posterity.

She is–
&

that’s enough.

DAILY PHOTO: Andean High Country Landscape

Taken in the summer of 2011 in the Peruvian Andes