DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Streams

Taken in June of 2015 in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Lakes

Taken in August of 2016 in Kashmir

DAILY PHOTO: Snowcaps of Salkantay

Taken in July of 2010 in the Peruvian Andes

 

DAILY PHOTO: Rooster Under Blue Sky

Taken in April of 2017 in Khonoma, Nagaland

POEM: Bird’s Life Haiku





hawk’s spiral swoop
snatches a sack skyward
morsels spilling



crow tugs rat carcass
like a combat comrade
cursing pal’s flab



Maribu meeting
looks formal: coat and tie
civil as Congress



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