Wild Beauties from India
This is long pending, and nostalgia filled post! Monsoon is an integral part of any Indian household. Everything depends on it – almost everything, inflation too! And this year we got good rainfall. It was almost always raining! But now that monsoon receded and winter started, I had started missing those cozy, rainy evenings. And voila! We witnessed "Unseasonal" heavy rain this week, and the rain brought back the memories of time spent with my family at our ancestral village, those leisurely evening walks in the drizzling rain, festivities and wild beauties! Monsoon not only brings rain, but it also brings life that was lying dormant beneath dry earth. Rainwater pours fresh energy over the fields in a form of fertile silt. We celebrate monsoon, literally. It brings with it, various festivals that everyone look forward to. These wet months are also a time when distinct varieties of wildflowers (or rather wild beauties) spring up in every corner if you really know where t