DAILY PHOTO: Kashmiri Creeks

Taken in August of 2016 on the Naranag-Sonamarg Trail









DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Loktak Lake













Taken in May of 2017 in Manipur

DAILY PHOTO: Solitary Zebra

Taken in May of 2018 near Lusaka, Zambia.

DAILY PHOTO: Scene from the Central Volcanic Zone

Taken near Sabancaya in the Peruvian Andes in the Summer of 2010

POEM: The Other Side

 

one never, ever, crests a rise

without killing off a pack of lies

the ugly lie: it’s all descent

belied by cold, granite torment

the pretty lie: continued gloom

skewered by rhododendrons in full bloom

DAILY PHOTO: Tree on a Foggy Mountain

Taken in May of 2017 in Coorg (Kodagu.)

DAILY PHOTO: Tungabhadra River

Taken in October of 2013 in Hampi









Mountain Haiku

pounding drums
echo down the valley
birds calm



deep breath
fog dissipates
common peril



fog follows
will it catch us
before the pass







cow grazes
on the high trail
dispiriting



glaciers glow
in sunrise orange
forge iron, not







on the ridge
falls can be lethal
worth it



DAILY PHOTO: Sunset over the Chobe River

Taken in April of 2017 in Chobe National Park (i.e. taken from Botswana looking into Namibia)

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain & Lake in Kashmir

Taken in August of 2016 on the trail from Naranag to Sonamarg