Mud Between My Toes

Today was yet another pre-dawn morning. We accompanied the teenage students of the Sri Aurobindo International School to ashram-owned paddy lands, near Ousteri Lake on the Pondicherry – Tamil Nadu border, to harvest sesame (til).

For them, as for us, the outing was a way to experience the basic mechanics of agriculture – or at least one significant part of the process – and remind ourselves from where our food comes. It was also hard work and good fun.

Pacific Spirit Mud

The rain cleared, the sun emerged, and it was time to hit the trails of Pacific Spirit Park, which begin just down the beach from our house. The park contains 38km of mountain biking trails, which wind and intersect in a lush cedar forest above Spanish Banks.

Today, they were a bit muddy.