Beautiful feeling

Today Rajan brought someone to cut down the work trees in the Jalabhoomi area of Buddha Garden. 'Jalabhoomi' means 'land of water' in Sanskrit and is the place where we have recently done a lot of earth works so when the rains come we will keep the water on the land so that it percolates down to the aquifer under the ground.

So called 'work' trees are a type of acacia which are very good pioneering trees but which are not indigenous to this area. We have taken them out to give more room to the indigenous trees to grow our own little patch of the indigenous tropical dry evergreen forest.

I planted the trees in this picture fourteen years ago close to what used to be a well. Now when it is so hot they give shade and I find this little patch of trees very beautiful.