Along NH1 in India, much heavy lifting is under way.
travel
Some like it hot
Speared chillis at Haveli, off GT Road between Delhi and Chandigarh.
Winging my way to CA
Traveling again, and reading Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost, which is fitting:
Airplane flights are usually from city to city, but in between are the untrodden realms to which you can only give approximate labels -- somewhere in Newfoundland, somewhere in Nebraska or the Dakotas. From miles up in the sky, the land looks like a map of itself, but without any of the points of reference that make maps make sense. The oxbows and mesas out the window are anonymous, unfathomable, a map without words.
Up in the mountains
Spent a bit of time in the Sierra Nevada last week, where cabins hide among the trees and the sky is a clear, true blue.
Taking the train
From PDX to Vancouver, BC; night has fallen now, but the lanscape as we head north is lovely nonetheless.
City view
From Victoria Peak, here's Hong Kong.
