Monthly Photography Challenge: A New Beginning

This post onwards, I have effectively entered an on-line group which picks up a specific topic as a photography challenge each week.
Each week I will attempt to post a photograph (hopefully) as an entry to that week's challenge. As this blog started out as travel blog, readers can expect a number of pictures to come from my travel experiences.

This week the topic is "A New Beginning". For me the most obvious statement that comes to mind... Its a new day - a new beginning.
Thus I have two photographs (from my archives) that symbolize a new day (and thus a new beginning).

This picture of dew drops on grass was taken in the village of Ratanwadi at the base of the Ratangad fort, near Bhandardara, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra.

The second entry for this weeks blog is one prized picture for my lazy self. Why ...? Its a rare (i.e. rare for me) picture of a Sunrise - a daily event which I seldom catch simply because, by the time I get up ... Sun is already shining quite brightly. However this one time, someone did bother to wake me up just in time to catch the beautiful sunrise.
This picture was taken on top of Kumar Parvat peak in Karntatka.
The previous day had been a long and grueling trek from Subramanya to the peak ... a trek which took me nearly 10 hrs (including several pit stops) and then we pitched tent on top of the peak.
When I was watching this Sunrise, most of the bones and muscles in my body were aching, I was shivering from the cold breeze atop the peak not to mention in absolutely frame of mind to make the long journey back to Subramanya....
Needless to say this Sunrise definitely inspired me to look at the rest of journey as a new day and a new beginning...