Come September!

    Three pictures taken at sunset on September 20, 2013

With the Equinox just two days away, sunsets are creeping closer to 5.20 p.m. Sunrise is still before 5.15 a.m. so the husband is happy that the tea gets a little over the prescribed eleven hours and fifteen minutes of daylight.
We had a very wet start to September, but a hot and dry fortnight followed. If only we had some moderation - regular rainfall and not too many ups and downs in temperature! Equinoctial thoughts.
Sunset and sunrise follow a steady pattern, climate change or no climate change. I give you good even.
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A Bridge Too Far (Away)

That is the River Dima, which flows close to the tea estate where we live. The bridge in the distance is a rail bridge. The bridge from where I took this shot is brand new. It was constructed to take the place of the one that was washed away in the floods of 1993!
Twenty long years to get the bridge up, three months from completion of construction to inauguration, and TWO opening ceremonies in one day. It's true. Do read on: http://in.news.yahoo.com/bridge-opening-twice-one-day-000000420.html

I took this picture on the last day of Durga Puja, the festival that marks the beginning of mellow skies and cooler weather.

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Big Up There!

I took this picture on a Sunday afternoon in September. My vantage point was just above Phuentsholing, Bhutan, and I was looking out over the Indian border town of Jaigaon in North Bengal. That big river flowing in the distance is the River Torsa. And that cloud? Well, it rained for a week where we live, some miles south of Jaigaon and Phuentsholing.

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'Oh, I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain...'

 

 

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One Hundred Days Without Rain

...spells bad news for the tea gardens here in the Dooars. These are pictures of the sunset last Sunday, taken from our bungalow. The clouds turned out to be ornamental.
















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A February Evening

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China Blue

This SkyWatch is courtesy my brother, TR (below). These pictures were taken at the Great Wall by Xie Songxin, Editor at China Daily, when TR visited China last summer.











Xie by TR



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'Royal' Blue SkyWatch

Airbrushed



Inside, Outside



Rajbari : The Cooch Behar Palace








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Cold Weather Games

Cold weather evenings here are touched with melancholy. It becomes dark so early, and the evening is so short. The day does a quick-fade, and spirits dip even as we get a thrill looking at all the play of light in the Western sky.

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Look, SkyWalker!

Talk about walking into the sunset! This man here is helping to pull down the scaffolding that formed a structure that housed the image of the goddess during Kali Puja. The little white dot in the sky is Venus, setting.
Location: Mal Bazar, Dooars, India.

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Idler's SkyWatch Post

You cant get more idle than this. I didnt take any pictures of the sky this week, but Partha Dey, who is a family friend, sent me two beautiful pictures he took on his Nokia phone camera.
One is of a jet plane flying over Bagdogra, our airport town, and the other is of the wonderful view of the snow covered Kanchanjunga range of the Himalayas as seen from his office and from his home in Siliguri.


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