spring is in the air
(for khamkwah)
...three days back there was just this tinge of cool in the air...needed a light jacket for the evening walk...leaves had started turning paler...made a note to myself...should go on that drive up north one of these days to catch the fall fireworks...fall is absolutely gorgeous and those who have not experienced it miss an experience...
...there is a highway in US that comes up north through NY state and up Vermont...think it is 80 or 87...it is the one that is consistently voted the top three of the most scenic route in the US...we were driving up north to vermont and maine...in the fall...confession: for a person who does not like driving with a passion that drive was one memorable drive...the countryside was on fire...leaves with different hues of yellow-orange...the grounds covered in more leaves...chill in the air...a tizzy freshness in the nostrils…heralding the coming snow...and the way my mind is programmed...i imagine not the falling leaves and oncoming winter but visualize the newer leaves that will be adorning the branches in the spring...tiny microscopic leaves that one usually does not notice at all in cloudy winter days...
(digression: just like we never notice baby pigeons...only full grown pigeons...saw this display of jamil naqsh at the mohatta palace...there was a period in his life...from 70 to early 90s when he was fascinated to the degree of being obsessive with pigeons in his paintings...looking at that collection i wondered first about not having seen any baby pigeons in real life...have you?)
...ut one day the sun breaks through the clouds and suddenly we notice the chill in the air giving way to fresh warmth, new leaves on the tree...suddenly we hear the birds chirping...squirrels scurrying on the ground...up from their hibernation...and just the visualization brings smile to lips...circle of life continues...
...for a karachite even after these years the four mergers are always fascinating...karachi has only one season...or a variation of one season...hot and hotter:)...and this merger of spring into summer into fall into winter into spring is always interesting and invigorating...perhaps this is why my glass is half full even when empty...
...three days back there was just this tinge of cool in the air...needed a light jacket for the evening walk...leaves had started turning paler...made a note to myself...should go on that drive up north one of these days to catch the fall fireworks...fall is absolutely gorgeous and those who have not experienced it miss an experience...
...there is a highway in US that comes up north through NY state and up Vermont...think it is 80 or 87...it is the one that is consistently voted the top three of the most scenic route in the US...we were driving up north to vermont and maine...in the fall...confession: for a person who does not like driving with a passion that drive was one memorable drive...the countryside was on fire...leaves with different hues of yellow-orange...the grounds covered in more leaves...chill in the air...a tizzy freshness in the nostrils…heralding the coming snow...and the way my mind is programmed...i imagine not the falling leaves and oncoming winter but visualize the newer leaves that will be adorning the branches in the spring...tiny microscopic leaves that one usually does not notice at all in cloudy winter days...
(digression: just like we never notice baby pigeons...only full grown pigeons...saw this display of jamil naqsh at the mohatta palace...there was a period in his life...from 70 to early 90s when he was fascinated to the degree of being obsessive with pigeons in his paintings...looking at that collection i wondered first about not having seen any baby pigeons in real life...have you?)
...ut one day the sun breaks through the clouds and suddenly we notice the chill in the air giving way to fresh warmth, new leaves on the tree...suddenly we hear the birds chirping...squirrels scurrying on the ground...up from their hibernation...and just the visualization brings smile to lips...circle of life continues...
...for a karachite even after these years the four mergers are always fascinating...karachi has only one season...or a variation of one season...hot and hotter:)...and this merger of spring into summer into fall into winter into spring is always interesting and invigorating...perhaps this is why my glass is half full even when empty...
posted by temporal at 9/15/2005
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