India photos

[rachelmanija]

My mother sent me some gorgeous photos she took of her neighborhood in semi-rural India. (Ahmednagar, two hours from Pune, Maharashtra.)





A Gul Mohur. They burst into bloom in summer.



Elephants are a rare sight in that state.



Sunrise.



Monkeys are rare, too.



Sunrise at the reservoir.

Comments

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

So lovely. I'm glad you can still appreciate the beauty of the place, considering what happened to you there.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The countryside was kind of an indelible influence, regardless of the rest of what was going on.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh those are gorgeous!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Really lovely.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Wow, the tree is stunning. I love that shallow-dome habit, and the flowers are beautiful.

The reservoir might be worth getting up at sunrise for, and I do not say that lightly.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are gorgeous.

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The reservoir shot in particular is lovely, but they're all beautiful.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Evocative and beautiful. Thank you for posting them!

[sorceressakemi.livejournal.com]

Oooh, gorgeous. (The first of the sunrise photos is pretty much exactly how I envisioned the landscape of the area based on the descriptions in All the Fishes.)

[leiliaxf.livejournal.com]

Lovely pics! That tree is amazing!

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Very nice!

[firesprite1105.livejournal.com]

I think this is the first time I've seen pictures of India that weren't crowded with people. It looks different than I expected. The sunrise picture in particular is stunning.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Kind of like the US, cities and towns are crowded but when you get out of those, there's big stretches of land with not a person to be seen.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Wow! Someday I'll get to India, it seems so pretty.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Re: pretty: try typing backwater Kerala into google images.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Wow.
Lovely photos. And they hit me with a pang of... homesickness?

Which is insane. Pune & surroundings have never been home, I saw more Gul-mohars in Saudi Arabia than I ever have in India (our street was lined with 'em), and I've been to Ahmednagar maybe once.

And yet.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Wow, the Gul Mohur one looks like a painting. Gorgeous!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

So beautiful. Thanks for passing them along.