{"id":1508,"date":"2009-06-16T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T04:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2010-02-01T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:05:08","slug":"monsoon-images-from-kodaikanal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/monsoon-images-from-kodaikanal.html","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon Images from Kodaikanal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a quick dash last week to check out the monsoon in the hills of Kodai. The visit was fruitful &#8211; the hills were green and it rained on and off. Clouds and sun took turns and through the day, changing the way the landscape looked. Fog swept the valleys as it rained and settled down in the depressions after drenching the slopes. A few pictures below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1509\" title=\"kodaikanal\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodaikanal_8.jpg\" alt=\"kodaikanal\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Darkening skies announcing the imminent rain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1510\" title=\"kodaikanal\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodaikanal.jpg\" alt=\"kodaikanal\" width=\"496\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodaikanal.jpg 496w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodaikanal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sun and shade alternating in the valley.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1511\" title=\"kodai\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_7.jpg\" alt=\"kodai\" width=\"496\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_7.jpg 496w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_7-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1512\" title=\"kodai\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_6.jpg\" alt=\"kodai\" width=\"496\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_6.jpg 496w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_6-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clouds descend into the valley.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1513\" title=\"kodaikanal\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodaikanal_2.jpg\" alt=\"kodaikanal\" width=\"496\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodaikanal_2.jpg 496w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodaikanal_2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lake, valley, hills and the sky.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1514\" title=\"kodai\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_5.jpg\" alt=\"kodai\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_5.jpg 334w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kodai_5-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its a clear evening after the clouds go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a quick dash last week to check out the monsoon in the hills of Kodai. The visit was fruitful &#8211; the hills were green and it rained on and off. Clouds and sun took turns and through the day, changing the way the landscape looked. Fog swept the valleys as it rained and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,49],"tags":[148,71,63],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tamil-nadu","category-tamilnadu","tag-kodai","tag-kodaikanal","tag-monsoon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-ok","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}