Over the past month, there’s only been one thing to do while skin turned into something like soggy velcro to which everything clung uncomfortably: stare and the sky and wish for clouds. Of course, if and when the rains do come, we’ll all be cursing the waterlogging that makes us wade through all the icky muck of this city. Right now, however, the clouds that will be source of future misery are the one thing that makes the spirit soar just a little. Armed with my little camera, I’ve been counting clouds as they came over Bombay — first, thin and wispy and then, plumping up little by little — and building cloud castles of rain.
Last night, a little past the witching hour, it rained. One moment, everything was stuffed with sweaty silence and suddenly with a whoosh, there was rain. You had to peer past the darkness and look for the occasional glint in the orangey streetlights to believe that it had finally, finally rained. And within minutes, it was over. Today, the clouds were fleshier and more dimpled than ever, as though they’d all fattened themselves overnight on our hopes that today would be just a smidgeon cooler. It wasn’t.
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:swoon: fabulous! photos AND description..
(i also like the slideshow thingy!)
See why I love WordPress? 😀 It makes even my photos look good.
well, you get a thonk for your own comment, ma’am.
lovely pics. and this is coming from a cloud lover. 😀
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Nice pics. And well written too. Sigh.. weren’t those 10 mins of rain lovely? I had hopped out of bed to catch a glimpse. 🙂
great pics :up: 🙂
Love the one from the sealink
but do i read “Bombay” ?!?!
be careful or you’ll awake the ire of the great arbitrer 😉 well, come to think of it, no so great, but anyway…
Everyone, thank you. 🙂
Alice, the sound of rain…sigh. Glorious stuff. If only it had lasted longer than 10 minutes.
beautiful pictures ! your pics make mumbai seem reassuring