The perfect rose and the perfect bud.
This is in response to Susan’s Macro Moments Challenge 5 and the theme is Macro Plants and Flowers.
For readers of Moonshine, here's Chapter 77 along with Calvin and Hobbes
Macro Moments Week 5
Category: Photo Challenge
APWC: Out in the Country
Last week I had the opportunity to travel through the countryside (twice!) and I bring selected glimpses – mostly from inside the car.
Paddy fields!
This little fellow chugging on the highway shuttling between villages
Bumper to bumper with the fresh farm produce (bitter gourd) truck
Stopping to give this one the right of way
Oh look who got a joy ride into the city 😉
Country roads take me home to the place where I belong….
Our Welcome Committee
And on this side too – looking positively disapproving don’t you think?
This post is in response to Nancy’s A Photo A Week Challenge and the theme is Out in the Country. Hope you liked 😀
For the readers of Moonshine, here's Chapter 76 and Calvin Hahaha
Trees shall Rule the World
At Ross Island, one of the islands of the Andamans and Nicobar islands, India.
Ross island was the headquarters of the Indian Penal Settlement for nearly 80 years.
Remnants of an opulent past in the ruins of the church, swimming pool and the chief commissioner’s residence with its huge gardens and grand ballrooms.
More power to the trees! What say you?
For Sunday Trees # 244 hosted by Becca.
COB #28: Atypical Art
This is in response to Cee’s Oddball Challenge Week 28
Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms made with bones (don’t miss the stack of bones in the background)
Chandelier made of bones and skulls. Sorry it’s a bit out focus – hands shaking I guess 😉
The Sedlec Ossuary, is one of the 12 World Heritage Sites in the Czech Republic. It is located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec near Kutna Hora. The cemetery was a very popular burial site. The ossuary is believed to contain the skeleton of between 40,000 and 70,000 people. Apparently the task of exhuming skeletons and stacking their bones in the chapel was given to a half-blind monk who arranged the bones to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.
It’s a fascinating place to visit, to think, how the monk managed to create such works of art when he could barely see with things a person would run miles from.
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker
Photo a Week : Hands
This is for Nancy’s Photo a week Challenge and the theme this week is – you guessed it Hands :D. And I think I am late but what the heck – onward ho!
Hands feed the sweetest bite or capture the moment.
The sweetest first bite
The Man of the house
As you know, hands can be a thing of beauty – especially when cared for
Henna also adds to their beauty don’t you think?
Did you know hand gestures (mudras) can be used to tell a story?
And finally a glimpse of hands that created a new World Record.
Thanks for visiting and thanks to my friends and family for allowing me to use their hands with or without permission 😉
“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” ― Vera Nazarian
Have a great weekend!
Macro Moment Week 4
The rainy season is here and like last year, I had another visitation.
Taking care to check that the window was securely bolted, I leaned in for a closer shot.
This is in response to Susan’s Macro Moments Week 4 challenge
Thanks for visiting 😀
CFFC: Signs of the Times
As usual, Cee has an interesting Fun Foto Challenge lined up for us – Signs. I have quite an obsession for signs. Let’s begin shall we?
I have to confess the first two sets are forwards but they were too good to pass up 😀
Minus the legs!
Why just at nite?
And the award goes to
Off to hunt for my pot of gold 😀
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Look Up
This is in response to Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge – Look Up. Obedient to the core, I looked up.
Last week was a difficult time. Looking up, it struck me that the long and short of it was that all of us are trapped in a spin of our own until Someone switches us off. Claustrophobic and not in the best frame of mind, I walked out in search of succor and inspiration.
Trees are such a comfort – and who can resist an endless blue sky dotted with cotton clouds? Horizons expanding, I walked to the other side of the house for a change in perspective.
Heart full, a crick in the neck, I couldn’t help looking down.
Quite a refreshing sight wouldn’t you say?
A bit easier than before, I went back in and read YP’s post – “Dragging through is ok – we will NOT always be able to Dash through issues….”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu
And of course – Que sera sera
Thanks for visiting and have a super week ahead 🙂
Big Banyan Tree
It’s time for Sunday Trees -243
Believe it or not, that is not a forest but a single tree. One that is more than 250 years old. The area occupied by the tree is about 18,918 square meters (about 1.5 hectares or 4 acres). The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 486 m. and the highest branch rises to 24.5 m. Interestingly, the tree survives without its main trunk, which decayed and had to be removed in 1925.
Instead, it has a large number of aerial roots, which grow from the branches and run vertically to the ground and looks like it has so many trunks. It is estimated that at present it has 3772 aerial roots reaching down to the ground as a prop root. Fascinating isn’t it?
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COB #27: Whoops
Here’s this week’s submission for Cee’s oddball photo challenge # 27. This is taken from the balcony of a 6th floor apartment in Mumbai.
I couldn’t help wondering if her friend threw her or she jumped fell. 😉 Good pic for a flash fiction eh? Anyone game?
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