Above – Young boy swinging on a rope near the sports complex.

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Below – Students playing cricket.

Below – on the adjacent field, students playing soccer.

I asked this fine specimen of a student if I could take his photo. Me: May I take your photo? Him: What for? Me: For my blog. Him: Where are you from? Me: United States, San Diego. Him: Yes. He was the first person who questioned my motive. I figure I explained myself sufficiently.

This is a panorama from close to the top of the hill looking out over Pune.

This little temple was nestled away in the bushes.

In the following photo I tried to capture the beauty of this fern.

A little fun and frolic…

What you can’t tell from the photo below is that I’m standing on a foot wide rim of a large pool of water. Dirty, very dirty water.

Part of the path to the top. So typical here that even in the beauty of things, there is garbage.

At the top – another small temple.

We didn’t see any snakes besides the red one on this sign.

We can see the temple in the photo below from our flat.

I spoke with this nice man and his children who are from Pune but live in the US. They were here in Pune visiting their family.

View from the other side of the hill. The building right in the center is the Marriott.

There was quite a bit of cactus that appeared to have been planted here at some time. It seemed a bit out of place, surrounded by fern.

As you can see, we came across a lot of people walking up the hill. Many students, but also those who aren’t students who come to get a little exercise. It’s truly beautiful there.

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It has been raining non-stop for over 24 hours, pouring down heavily, and I have a cold and have been sleeping all day. I missed the Punyathiti (death anniversary) held at the Institute this morning for Guruji. It has been three years since he died.

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Blogged on Amma’s iPhone and MacBook from iNdia with LOVE!