Color Quotient

Colors are not what we see
Colors are the beauty of our feelings
Colors are the life of our hopes
Colors are the rainbow we dream

The warmth of the day is golden
While cold nights are blue
Oceans playing with aqua tones
And flowers painted with every hue

Mountains graced with peaks white
Love noted with blossoming pink
Setting sun leaving crimson sky
The aura of youth glows in vibrant green
 
Colors give meaning to smileys
Colors make us enthrall
Colors even compliment divinity
As we celebrate colors in our festivals.

Panchchulli Sunset

Video recording of sunset at Panchchulli peaks recorded from Munsiyari, Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand

The Lore of Nandadevi

As the Himalayan dawn sets in

The blanket of night fades away

Waking up the forest greens

With the kiss of the morning ray

Eager eyes looking to the east

Lost in the first glimpse of light

The golden Sun coloring snow peaks

With nature setting for all new flight.

While lost in panoramic views

A strange voice called from rear 

Came up with wondrous news

About the Himalayas and its admirers

One such story was Willie Unsoeld's  

A climber from the Swedish country

Enamored with Nandadevi peak

Named his daughter after the holy deity

As seasons change in Alpine hills
Lady Nandadevi blossomed of age
Mountain calling led to her will
Brought her to the Himalayan voyage

An ace climber Lady Nandadevi
Trekked the snow clad rocks aptly
The lady's face off with Nanda deity
Was a meeting of souls unworldly

But as atoms meet to bind together
So was the Lady and the deity
Lady Nanda fell ill for never to recover
Breathed her last in a camp at sublimity

So was written the story of Lady Nandadevi
The destined daughter of Willie Unsoeld
For all lovers of the peak of the holy deity
This is a lore belovedly told.