THE DRY AND BARREN ART OF SUMMER

All these were shot from a moving train. Nature looks beautiful when dry and barren too. That's it's specialty. Again,

I used the 2.0 MP camera of the antique Nokia E63 mobile.

CLOUD ART

The whole colour tone changed when the bus moved just another 30 metres. I used the 2.0 MP camera of the antique Nokia E63 mobile.

If you notice, the shape of the clouds, remains the same.

SILHOUETTES ADORNING DUSK

AMARYLLIS AT MY HOME

The one below was shot by my sister. A much better pic....the angle...

A DASH OF CRYSTAL WHITE AFTER A BOUT OF RAIN

The spot was pretty bright, almost matching that which emanates during a welding process.

In the picture below, you see a crow in flight and what is beside it, faraway is a plane in upward flight.

A SCENIC TOP AND A MUNDANE BOTTOM

The evening was slowly giving over it's decree to the night and me and my daughter tried moving through this place.

Frankly, it was boring as there was nothing interesting out there that we did encounter. I wish we had a nice green expanse to walk on, with some sloped terrain to climb and then to come down. But it wasn't there either. But every time we looked up, we liked to see what nature offered. We could see the evening sky through the sublime and subtle art of the tree branches, that were part of the thick canopy that lay on top of us. Frankly, it gave us that real forest feel.

Imagine walking through some thick green bushes and shrubs, with nature and greenery embracing us all around and on top, with some slopes for us to struggle on and climb, those little sweet struggles and then the getting down from these. These little sweet things that we very seldom encounter in our urban life, were what we were really yearning for. But nah!! these were not there.

We would have never felt this, had the top been empty and open without this nice rustic canopy. Somehow, it's always these opportunities in half that frustrate us more than the situations where there is absolutely nothing to expect at all :)

Well, here's where we actually were :))

This is a road in West Anna Nagar, Chennai that runs in front of my daughter's school. And the snap you saw first, was just an upper portion of it. I think we should always keep looking at the better side of things and enjoy the best portions of the total that is offered to us :)) Expecting enjoyment from the whole total is what would frustrate us :))

A BIRTHDAY WISH FROM MY LITTLE ONE

This is a card that my daughter had got done a few months back for my birthday. Each time I read it, I derive a lot of energy out of it. Kindly ignore the adjectives that are in excess :)

I am somewhere there still, hanging on as a hero in her mind probably...with time it will slowly vanish :)