The official
first day of Spring has passed, but this is the season between the chill, dry,
winter…easily the most comfortable time to visit this extraordinary country…
and the onset of the heat and rain of summer that, despite its discomfort,
brings the seasonal magic of new life, followed by oceans of flood waters
filling the great rivers and canals, and spreading the seasonal deltaic water
borne detritus that is the fertile stuff of the flourishing agriculture of the
country.
For
us, the sight of the ‘Cotton’ tree, Bombax Ceiba, that produces, long before
new leaves, large, bright red, fragrant blossoms on the bare branches, is what
lights the way to full spring.
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