The Hand beneath our Feet

'And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair' - Kahlil Gibran

Bounty of the Land

'Only when the last tree has been cut down,
Only when the last river has been poisoned,
Only when the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten'

Cree Indian Prophecy

Go Green

'We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children' - Native American Proverb

Arachnophilia

'Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught' - Honore De Balzac

Children of Gaia

'We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act' - Charles Darwin

The Earth weeps

'Dew is the earth's tears,
Shed in remembrance of the day.
Shed in longing for the light'

-Brian Troyer

Life by the drop

'See how the orient dew,
Shed from the bosom of the morn
Into the blowing roses,
Yet careless of its mansion new'

On a Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell

Memories captured in smell

'What is it about the smell of damp earth that I love so much? That faintly musty, faintly sweet smell that clings to you; seeps into your mind. Stirs…memories…'

Petals of hope

'I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds' - Robert Bridges

The Inner self

'The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge' - Meister Eckhart

The only certainty

Dead moth on a doormat

'Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave' - Joseph Hall

The Untiring Workaholics

'An Ant on the move does more than a dozing Ox' - Lao Tzu

The Silent Guardians

When fire is cried and danger is nigh,
"God and the firemen" is the people's cry;
But when 'tis out and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

The Fireman's Journal

Wings of Fire

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough" - Rabindranath Tagore

Once Upon a Time in Kavalur

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope" - Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty is Skin Deep

Tinted Windowpane Abstract

Its a Small World

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain" - Henry David Thoreau

The Dancing Twins

A rare double rainbow over the observatory (It was one hell of a sight!!!!!)

The last light

Sunset over the sleepy woods

"Some artists transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun" - Pablo Picasso

Let there be light

Sunrise in all its glory at Kavalur


“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” - John Muir

The Song of Colour

"I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener" - Arvo Part

Colours of Heaven

When the Gods smiled at Kavalur


"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray" - Lord Byron

If you rest, you rust

"Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves" - Owen Feltham

Teardrops

"Silent dew drops fall outside 
As I sit through the night;
And so do tears in my eyes
To hold which I can’t fight"

Skywatchers

The feather in the crown of IIA, the Vainu Bappu 2.34m telescope


"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, or falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries" - Carl Sagan

Jewels of the Sky

A clear night sky at Kavalur

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people" - Carl Sagan

Green as They Come

"As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot"

Untarnishable

"The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window and every tile" - Jim Harrison

The Indian

The lucky ant

“Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.” - Jack Handy

The beaten path

"He walked like he was afraid to leave behind footsteps. He moved as if not to stir the air around him" - The Kite Runner

Islands of Purple

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it" - Alice Walker

Hydrophobic but photogenic

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf" - Rabindranath Tagore

Mottled colours

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay"

A Green Sojourn

"Life is but a sojourn" - Plato

Two is Company

Twin mushrooms basking in the sun

"Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer"

Harbringers of life

"A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars" - Walt Whitman

The last drop

"The human species is still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water" - Maya Angelou

SKYRIM

A wet day at Kavalur

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” - Vietnamese Monk