Monsoon damage

I always carry my camera with me since there is always something bizarre or interesting to see here. Last Wednesday we had a particularly heavy thunderstorm and as I walked home from work the streets were like rivers so I took a taxi back. The next morning Roger and I were walking to the office as usual and to our astonishment, the white temple on the corner just past the Bagmati bridge had collapsed, pulling down power lines, a metal fence and tumbling bricks into the road. A week later and we still have to walk road the masonry and cables and piles of bricks

collapsed temple

 The temple was badly cracked by the earthquakes and it withstood the 2015 monsoon rains but this monsoon it fell down. Apparently UNESCO are concerned about the rate of progress on restoration of the heritage sites here. We walked to Patan durbar square at the weekend and there are now big fences surrounding and protecting the damaged buildings.It is difficult to see how progress can be speeded up when people have only recently been able to start rebuilding the earthquake damaged houses and schools. These must take priority over monuments
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New fences protecting Patan Durbar square

On a lighter note, here is a young man painting "no parking" stripes on a new road.He took three days to finish but did a really good job

One nice thing about the monsoon is the speed at which plants are growing now that the rain is here. Many trees have started to flower and we keep noticing interesting new plants like this one.

An extraordinary seed pod , just like a green balloon!