Home in the mountains

After I got married the home that I went to was in the middle of a coffee plantation on a hill station. It was the first time that I was going to stay in a place like that. Coming from a city, it was extremely new and also very different.

The entire place was so colourful...it was green and brown... the brown mountains and the green trees and plants and shrubs.... I had never seen so much greenery..It was such a treat to the eyes. And in Nature's own arrangement, the flowers of various hues and colours dotted the entire valley... Nature is surely the world's greatest artist.

In the city, you can hardly see the sky, forget about the stars. Here, every night, the sky would be brightly lit..the stars twinkling away merrily, brightly like jewels in a huge crown. It felt like the sky shone more brightly here than anywhere else. The moon the brightest jewel.... shining with all its glory... When the sun rose at dawn and set at dusk the sky would be painted in a hue of orange and red and yellow and purple... It was as if Nature was painting a marvelous piece of art every day using the sky as its canvas.

During winter, the mist used to rise from the valley in a twirl..the entire place would be completely submerged in the fog. At nights, driving on the ghat road was like driving with a blindfold... you could hardly see whats in front of you..it was so misty....

We had our share of wild life as well. There were the leopards coming at our doorstep during their breeding season in search of dog meat for their young ones.... we lost 2 of our dogs to them... then we had a kind of deer which is as small as a rabbit..it is called a mouse deer..they are so cute... the monkeys, snakes and scorpions are of course always there... not to forget the leeches... occasionally we also had visits from the bisons... huge handsome fellows... weighs almost a ton.... mostly all muscles and no fat.... wild boars came for the potatoes that we planted... they love to eat the potatoes..... their favourite... and last but not the least a wide variety of birds.... oops...I almost forgot.... the flying squirrels... lovely creatures....