S Roy Biswas: When the spring time turned to winter

Sunday, May 18, 2014

When the spring time turned to winter

When the spring time turned to winter

Red billed Blue Magpie calling in the hills of Uttarakhand

Having started with the construction work in Timila, I wanted to show the place to my mother & children and as the weather had remained quite cold in the hills during the month of March, 2014 we decided to visit the destination during mid April and we chose 18^th April, 2014 as there was a three day break from School & Office that we got during the week ending with ‘Good Friday’ holiday. We started early morning for Anand Vihar Railway station, as we were scheduled to board the ‘Shtabdi train’ for Kathgodam. As I found out on this day, that the proverbs are coined by experienced persons and come true ever so often, this time around the proverb ‘Morning shows the day’ came true, as we started our journey by Taxi at 4.30 A.M early in the morning. It had started drizzling and by the time we reached the station, the intensity had increased as also the wind speed and almost everyone waiting at the station was forced to take out their light woolens etc. This rain continued all through the journey from Delhi to Kathgodam. We reached Kathgodam around 12.00 Noon and as we alighted from the train, the cold winds lashed us fiercely and we immediately booked a Taxi to drop us at Chilyanaula, Ranikhet. The road journey took us from Kathgodam, Bhimtal, Bhowali, Kainichi Dham, Garampani, Khairna to Chilyanaula in Ranikhet, where we reached around 3.00 P.M and had to ask for Room heaters during the night, because of the intense cold after sunset. I have described the destinations many a times in my blogs and would like my viewers to enjoy the journey through the photographs, having detailed tags and enjoy the journey through my lens, when the hills turned to winter during the spring time -