Morning walk around the Countryside.
I felt awkward first to click, because people were passing by even right after the fajar.
People who live in a village usually know everthing about the crops that have been cultivated there for centuries. But so is not the case here, i had to ask about each crop and got answers in Punjabi. Later i searched their Urdu and English meanings.
In our village, one side of it has been occupied by humans and act as a residential area. While another side has land area for croping and harvesting.
In such lands people grow their crops. Some have made tiny houses called Derra(without walls) in Punjabi, of clay in their fields. Where men usually live to lookafter their crops and livestock.
It's a norm to keep buffalos, goats and roosters there. It looks fun to see this scene. I once visited this derra in my childhood.
But the one in the pictures belongs to our rivals, and my amma said if they see you taking these picture. They may take it as a propaganda to show the military forces(because my village belongs to a military farm).
The buffalos are taken to an open land for grazing in the morning and evening. We have a canal ahead of our village, where buffalos used to go to drink water in my childhood(don't know if they take them now or not)
Have a look in the inside of one house which is called Ahata in Punjabi because it's being walled.
And this roof, i was told not to step on it,
in the first decade of my life, it's fragile, it may fall, and seeing it safe and sound after almost 1.5 decade feels like i was scammed.
Now lemme show you some crops and trees. You can see maize behind every crop being the tallest, called Makki in Urdu. Often used as a fodder and grains to make flour for making bread in winters (Makki ki roti and Sarson ka Saag)
The one below is known as Charri, and in English as sorghum. It's used as fodder for animals(for that it's grown in April and August) and grains for the next crop(for that it's generally grown in June and July).
It requires proper irrigation in April rainfall in July.
The one below is also a kind of fodder for animals and refiner for the soil. It has compound leaves, feather like with leaflets. In English it's called prickly or spiny Sesbania, while in local language as Jantar.
Now look at some local trees:
And finally this is the gali or street which leads to the field side of our village. You enter it from one side(residential side) and leave from another side(Nature/land Side).
Seeing this narrow street reminds me(it's lame still sharing) of a poet who had said about the narrower streets of Androne Lahore(though it's not that much restricted). That if a man comes from one side and a woman from another, the only possibility remains between them is Nikkah(Marriage)😂
Hope you like this lush green post:)
These pictures are amazing. I just love your presentation style :)
Thank you esha❤
You have a great photography skill all the photos are amazing and yes I Belong to Punjabi family so I know much of these things beacuse when I was yound my grandmother usually took us for visiting our village.
Thank you bushra:)
O you're lucky for having such a grandma , we wander in village after ages:(
She is no more with for past few years
O Allah unki maghfirat kre ameen❤