An Embellished Tale
Words 152
“Tell us a story Granny,” the children clamored.
“Hmm, okay. Long ago, a learned sadhu lived in the jungle. People came from near and far away villages to hear him speak of religion and spirituality.”
“Granny…” Lily whined but Molly shushed her.
“One day, Nag, the snake heard the Sadhu’s talk on brotherly love and nonviolence. Moved, Nag vowed to renounce his deadly habit.”
“Oh!” exclaimed Lilly.
“Slowly the villagers got to know of Nag’s saintly nature. They teased and provoked him with sticks and stones.”
“How mean.”
“The half-dead Nag accused the Sadhu of teaching wrong things.”
“What did the Sadhu say?”
“I told you to shun violence but did I tell you not to raise your hood?”
“Then?” Molly prodded.
“Nag began to hiss. Scared, the villagers avoided him. Sadhu and Nag became friends and they lived happily ever after.”
Granny twinkled and pointed to the photo on the wall.
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A/N: This is one of my favorite childhood tales – I just embellished it to fit the photo which was irresistible and mesmerizing. If you look carefully, the right one is Nag and the left one is the monk with his staff 😉
Written for What Pegman Saw – a story in 150 words or less. Thanks to K. Rawson for hosting the challenge and Google Maps for the photo prompt. To read the other stories inspired by this prompt click here.
A lush green lawn with a fountain in the middle. There are lots of trees too and oh they are green too 😉
The generous tree offers to share her colors with the lackluster lawn (thanks Ruma for the photo 🙂
A green hatted building 😀
Going down the steep flight stairs is my lil sister loaded with shopping bags. I was busy clicking pics you see 😉 Psst would you care to see the loot?
Elegant don’t you think?
A A pink and green saree
Chota Bheem – part of my gift to her. Another story for another day 😉
We didn’t buy this doll but we did buy a doll. Why didn’t I include that here? Oh but Khushi didn’t fit into the challenge you see, Elena did. She has beautiful eyes (eyelashes too) and sports a range of colors, white red pink yellow and green!
Dahlias – need I say more 😀 Now for some fun stuff
A dancing tree on top of the other trees!
A depressed lion in Hyderabad outside the Salar Jung Museum
Another depressed lion at Lucerne, Switzerland. Perhaps they are long lost brothers, separated by continents…
A duck, just to prove I know what the challenge is all about 😀 Unless this is not a duck…
The deserted streets at dusk
A designer house or is it a cafe restaurant? And don’t miss the redefined green wall-to-wall carpeting.
Dancer balancing on an earthen pot balanced on another earthen pot on the head of another dancer…whew
Dancers on stilts. I have featured these dancers before and if you missed them the first time or would like to revisit, click 
At first I though she offered high rise apartments for rent. 😀 But on a closer look I realized they aren’t bird nests but scars from old wounds – branches that she has nurtured and in all likelihood mercilessly cut off. Does she not feel the pain of loss? How could she not? Yet she continues to grow and bloom, undeterred.
Stories and more 