I’ve never seen (in person) a cow being milked. Late in the day yesterday while riding in the country in the back of Nana’s rickshaw, we saw two men preparing to milk their cows … right there in the pasture! How exciting was that? Of course Nana pulled over because he knows how excited I get, and I jumped out of the rickshaw, navigated my way across the street (a feat in itself) and walked to the pasture. Using hand gestures because neither spoke English, I asked if I could video them.
The following video is the coolest thing ever! Enjoy! If you’re reading this on email, it might not show that this next image is a video. Click on it. You won’t want to miss it.
What the video doesn’t show is a group of people (presumably family) sitting nearby under a tarp laughing hysterically at me. What can I say? I’ll do anything for a good photo or video.
Here is the remainder of the Fort photos. Well, almost. I’m holding back two photos and a video for my next post.
Check out the video I downloaded to YouTube (click on the next image).
I had this big idea of having Jill take a photo of me doing Vrksasana (tree pose). Where else but next to a tree. It was all fine until I realized I was standing in muck – good thing I didn’t have my sights set on a headstand! I didn’t want to take my shoe off and get my foot all dirty so not only was I standing in muck (on one leg), but I was wearing a rubber slip-on shoe that was “mucking around” under me. It’s not pretty, but I pulled it off.
As soon as we walked outside the Fort it started pouring.
These banyon trees are everywhere here. I though this one just outside the Fort was especially beautiful.
The people of Pune are exceptionally nice. In some of the more remote areas where they don’t see many westerners we literally get swarmed by people wanting to take selfies with us. They may not speak English, but they all know “selfie.”
Tomorrow is BKS Iyengar’s (Guruji) fifth year Shraddanjali (death anniversary). I’ll be attending Prashant’s (Guruji’s son) 7am class, Abhay’s 10am class, and a remembrance talk by Prashant at 5pm.
The weather today was perfect – no rain (yet). I had 7am class with Prashant, a good practice afterwards, Ayurveda and an Indian lunch cooked by Anita. Tonight a little chanting and hopefully to bed at a reasonable hour.
Blogged on Amma’s MacBook while listening to the call of the birds in the park from Pune with LOVE!