“SET WIDE THE WINDOW AND LET ME DRINK THE DAY…”
In a day, often I come here sit all alone with a cup of coffee and watch outside aimlessly, observe things around, just spend some time with the nature outside that window. It’s not just a plain garden it instead is a big life which supports and host many other lives small and big.
Ours is a small, organized and well maintained green garden. We have many plant species nearing to some 70 different pots and plants while few are prominent fruit and flowering plants like Mango, guava, custard apple, pomegranate, lemon, loranthus berry tree and many common flowers like roses, caselpinia, ixora, mogra, lilly, marigold, hibiscus,adendium etc.
The garden doesn't only support these plant lives but also provide shelter to smaller organisms like ants, grasshoppers, cicada, honeybees, many different butterflies, moths and flies, earthworms, millipedes, frogs, wall lizards, garden lizards etc. A number of birds like red vented bulbul, Indian robin, magpie robin, common myna, spotted doves, rufous treepie, tailor birds, purple sunbirds, jungle babblers, greater coucal, asian koel, rose ringed parakeet, black kite, domestic crow, fan-tail flycatcher, green bee-eater, house sparrows, golden oriole and pigeons. Among the small mammal guests we have squirrels, bats, rodents like rats and mouse, domestic cat, and non-human large mammal guests are Hanuman langurs (my frequently visiting friends)
We even have a double sitter swing in our garden which is rarely used by us but more by babblers and doves. It’s just a treat for vision seeing these creatures playing, living, communicating in our garden. We try our best not to disturb them and let them enjoy the natural habitat they found amidst these concrete jungles. I suppose more than them we enjoy watching them in our garden as not many places like this are left out in the town so we take utmost care of all our plants and try to maintain the greenery of the garden so that we have these wanted guests keep visiting.
Looking at all this from that one window is what I love the most. So much things we learn by merely looking and observing things going around in nature. Somebody has rightly said: “Look deep into the nature and then you will understand everything much better.”
We are surrounded by the answers we seek, just an alert watch is what it takes.!
So this is how my window view looks like and how about yours?? Go set out for some lone self time folks.. :)
KEEP FINDING WINDOWS TO NEW THOUGHTS...
It feels great imaging all these things while reading. As if I myself present over there ! Micro observation is just amazing !
ReplyDeletethank you for all the appreciation.. :)
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