Yay! It’s time for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and the topic this week is the letter B and the topic needs to be any color that starts with the letter B. Initially I was stumped but when I scrolled through my recent clicks I had zillions which fit the bill. Shall we get started? What? You dont have so much time? Okay fine – just a few, then, or maybe just a few more than just a few π
Ready? Of we go…
A blue train from the window of my train π
A black buffalo with two black crows taking a little rest between flights.
Bare brown branches amidst the lush greenery. Not everyone flourishes at the same time.
Trying to catch the egrets from between two brown seats. Stretching it a bit too far eh π
Brick red benches at a deserted tiny station with blue and white fencing
The brown mud of a dried up stream. Had enough of the train journey? Let’s climb down shall we?
Down the stairs with brown wooden paneling
A battered brown screen. Wonder why only the lower portion is damaged?
A blue peacock painted on the wall of a roadside restaurant. Pretty neat huh?
Time to fly back home braving thick black ominous clouds over blue mountains.
Must be hungry after that long round trip? Go on have a doughnut, it’s free. But make sure to choose only a brown one otherwise you are sure to get a rap on your knuckles. What say Cee? π π
Thanks for your company – have a super day!
The banana plant has uses other than that of dishing out a complete packaged clean food in bunches. The green leaves were traditionally used as plates and in fact still are in some parts of the country, particularly during festivals and special occasions. The leaves are also used to package and steam food tied up with strings made from the stem, which gives the dish a unique flavor.
Contained within in indistinguishable untidy jungle of leaves is the stem which is also edible. But that is not on my list of foods to eat again before I die – more like to avoid π Further, all parts of the plant are believed to have medicinal properties and have been used in Ayurveda for the treatment of various ailments. 
A closer shot of the young bananas hanging and the flower. In my part of the country, West Bengal, the dishes cooked with the flower is a delicacy and a personal favorite, unlike the stem. Although I have to confess I haven’t tried my hand at cooking it – preparation and extraction of edible bits is tedious and taxing π
When the going gets tough, the tough get goingΒ 
One tiny single room house in the midst of nowhere – quite a reversal from the cities!
On the way back by car we were caught in a torrential blinding downpour. I thought it was the perfect way to capture the rain π
Another way of capturing rain is by focusing on puddles – can you make out how heavily it was raining?
As the rain gathered intensity, some sought shelter…
But unlike the birds, these three didn’t have any choice and hence they bore it stoically and came out squeaky clean π
After the rains – clean fresh and sparkling! Yet the monsoons which bring relief from the sweltering heat and also wrecks havoc in many parts of the country.
The flower pots are a good indicator aren’t they? And this was just after two hours of rain. Thankfully the rain eased and the water receded. I wonder what would have happened if the rains hadn’t stopped…
Vast green fields that stretch on and on with a handful of people working them. And we complain of rising prices…
When I was little, I remember feeling a sense of pride and achievement at level crossings. So many people were waiting for me! π Now I can feel their restlessness, their impatience.
As a child, I used to think of these as effigies of the demon king Ravan and his cronies waiting to be burned down. Now I know that our worlds will come crashing down if these were to go up in smoke π
Nature has found her own way of dealing with these ‘demons’ that mar her beauty. Don’t beat them, use them π
A thoughtful make-shift shed at an obscure railway station. One even had a tree growing through it. Or (more likely) the shed built around it π
Just some random white flowers from another journey on my two feet.
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