My Musings

     I came upon this  and just found it so adoring that it made me write one of my own. Just like her, I feel that my mornings are made of somethings that seem just constant and create the best vibe to start the day.      I have always been a morning person, thanks to migraines - my body has to maintain a specific sleep and wake up time. No can indulge in a over-sleep session without inviting a blinding headache upon waking up. Sigh! the perils of having that "gene"!      But nevertheless I just love waking up early, especially in Bangalore. That time when the sun is still wondering if has to come out or stay hidden in the blankets of clouds is just marvellous. Sometimes , we can see the splendid play of morning colours from our balcony, on days that the sun god decided to wake up early...      It is so funny how our bodies also run on auto-pilot. Every morning I notice that my body automatically wakes up few minutes before my alarm rings. When it used to be 5:30 am, I alway

    Much as I like the movie, this post is not about the movie !     Pretty much all through COVID, the only thing that kept us from going insane, has been our walks. Now I that I dont have the morning rush to leave for walk, I can talk a long walk every morning. Earlier , I used to alternate between walking and pilates and for sometime now, I have taken a hiatus from pilates - because there is a suspicion that the one hour long intense workout was lending a helping hand to my migraines.     Every morning for the past year or so has pretty much been the same routine, trying to take a walk between anywhere between 6:30 - 8:00 in the morning and rarely in the evenings also. Some nights after we have had dinner, we would force the girls to come on a walk with us - 2 rounds around the apartment... these are the best times as there would hardly be a soul on the road .. We would discuss the most common topic of theirs - dog names and what breeds they would like ! Okay that topic is still doi

    One of the things that we did as a prep for the Uttarakhand trek was to walk in the city over the weekends. We did 3 such walks ~ 13-17km each. On one of these walks, we started recollecting our treks - when did we start and how many have we done. DH suggested M'n'M to write a blog about it. So, I decided to 'steal' the idea - after all I am the one who catalogs all the photos :)     The DH and I have always been active physically I feel. I have recollections of going to the gym in Bloomfield villas almost every day in the evening after work. In fact there is a funny story related to it. While in the gym we would watch TV and based on the ads, every week or two we would be hooked to one eatery - eg. Subway, Burger King etc :)..... If not the gym, we would walk around the apartment complex, or take small walks to the Auburn Hills city center and some parks nearby.      Our first real trek was in the Smokies - a very short yet lovely walk through the woods to the &quo

    👀👉 - Part 1  && Part 2      Around 3 am in the morning of our last night in the camp, it started to pour! Thunder and lightening resonated for an hour and half in the valley. It was the loudest thunder that I have ever heard in my life. I was sure that we would be drenched in the tent or the tent would fall down because of the heavy wind and downpour. It stopped at about 5 - we manged to doze off till 6.      When my eyes opened, I saw a sheet of white near the opening of the tent and scrambled to get out and we had a surprise! There was a slight sheet of snow all around us in the valley. Some of the mountains near the valley, that had been dry last night were now covered with snow here and there. It was all so beautiful. The skies were a bright blue - the rains seemed to have washed away all the fog of the previous night! Lily was undisturbed - searching for grass beneath the snow.     I waited a long time to take a photo of the sunrise and a time-lapse, but had to give