On a hot summer day, the sunrise from our terrace is a cool experience! So beautiful to see the orange orb gliding up the clear blue and orange horizon - the colours are just too pretty and defy explanation! It is an experience really and something the vocabulary limits. We have kind of settled in, into our new place. We wake up in the morning to the AOC Centre military bugle playing the reveille and that is another experience....this, along with all kinds of birds tweeting and flying around. In our old home, we had got used to the day and night traffic and with the foliage reducing, so were the birds, we didn't see house sparrows for years in that area. In addition, the building up of malls and high rise complex has made that a very commercial place. The road next to our home there has become a link road to the hi-tech city. Here, we can actually hear the birds! It is much quieter here and I appreciate that, being a small-town person!
We have a little patch of a garden which is now full of pots and plants from the old place. Before the monsoons, I must lay some new grass for the lawn. The rest of the enclave where we stay has pretty gardens and the landscaping of this place is neat and pleasing to the eye. I'm not much of a gardener but am inspired by the gardens around here. It is a little more of hard work because the soil is not so fertile and has to be replenished with fertilizers etc. But I did get my Easter lilies, some white and some red, and that was satisfying.
This is a town house with other similiar houses, about thirty of them, some on the main road and ours is inside the enclave and somewhat in the centre. Our earlier place was an independent bungalow. The advantage of being here is that the electrician, the plumber, the carpenter are all on call here and oblige us willingly whenever we call. Infact the electrican is the best I've ever encountered in Hyderabad/Secunderabad up till now!
I'm now looking forward to having friends and family over and stay with us. We have a couple of spare bedrooms now, unlike the old place. Summer is not the best time to be in Hyderabad but from end June till February, Hyderabad/Secunderabad is a beautiful place to be in.
It is great to live in Marredpally, Secunderabad, I am enjoying every moment of it!
