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: Livestock on a Kashmiri Trail

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

DAILY PHOTO: Scenery from Daulatabad Fort

Taken in October of 2014 at Daulatabad, Maharashtra














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

DAILY PHOTO: Hunder Valley

















Taken in August of 2016 in Hunder Valley, Ladakh

DAILY PHOTO: Young Zebra

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Taken in April of 2017 in Botswana

DAILY PHOTO: Sacred Forest ‘Shrooms

















Taken in April of 2017 in the Mawphlang Sacred Forest