It is pleasant and cool outside. The Monsoons have set in over Gurgaon and Delhi today. June the 30th is the scheduled day for rains to arrive and they did this morning about 5.30. As of now these are light showers. Cool breeze, gray skies and no sun. Wet red stone on the terrace looks awesome. The upper portion of dried amaltas looks rather sad but fresh green leaves have started sprouting from the soil level and also in the middle of the tree. Hopefully by the end of this monsoon we should get to see the green cover on this too. Madhu-Malti is loaded with pink-white and red flowers and there are other bushes of flowers too. Chandni and raat ki rani are blooming too. At 10 am, it is pouring now, no wind so it is falling down straight and sharp. At 11 there is thunder and I see denser clouds now. The rains saved me the effort of water the plants today.