Over the Wall

Regeneration

For Current Conservation magazine. Illustration for an article about Plant Pathogens.


There exists neither heaven nor hell,
nor gods nor devils,
neither spirit nor soul
nor angels,
nor miracles;
nothing to pray to,
so no need for prayer.
There is only this wondrous world
and the glorious natural cycle 
of life and death.
Examine it closely
and it should be enough.

~ Dalai Lama


Solitude in Siberia

That Old Bungalow

Whenever I walk through North Road, I stop by these gates

And I peer inside

 Trying to see as much as I can

 Through the dense foliage

 Ferocious growth

 And tangled vines

 I glimpse a dark window here

 An old fountain there.

 But the merciless verdure pushes me back

 And I retreat

 Turning back for one last look

And another

Before going my way.

Sketchbook Stuff

Beautiful Things

I want to tell what the forests 
were like

I will have to speak
 in a forgotten language.

~W.S. Merwin, from The Rain in the Trees, 1988

Wildflowers of Coorg

They were omnipresent and this is just a small sample of colour, uniqueness and abundance along the roadsides, fields and pathways.