FLAMINGO - L

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This was at Porbander as we were leaving it. There was a flock of flamingos and the scene captures that feeling. I am always amazed that the pink is not their own colour but formed from the algae they eat. When you watch its beak it is beautifully formed to scoop sand and algae and shrimp and it shows how evolution has developed and evolved sympathetically or indeed systematically for biological benefit.

Heavens coming down to impregnate mother earth is a sight to watch every monsoon. One can spend hours staring at the patterns created by the falling water drops on a sheet of water of a lake or even of a backyard filled with rain water. The whole world goes into a huddle blunting all the sharp edges of the individual entities presenting only a silhouetted world. Amidst such featureless landscape emerges a burst of light, which is as soft as those Flamingos, streaking through an opening in the dark cloudy sky symbolising life with all the myriad details presented to the onlooker.

There is more on Porbander here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porbandar

And on flamingos here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo