The Daily Post Photo Challenge : Treat

This week’s photo challenge theme is “Treat,” an intentionally open-ended prompt. For many, candies aren’t a favorite indulgence. Maybe you’re a savory food lover, or you’ve gone on a beautiful vacation to treat yourself. Perhaps some quiet time alone with a beloved novel is your greatest pleasure. This week, share with us a photo of…

A Photo a week Challenge : Pretty in Pink

Recently at a family wedding, cousins of the bride wore bright pink saris and looked very pretty in pink🙂 Pink flowers are beautiful:) The next flower is called Suryakanti ( Surya is sun ), it is white in the morning and by evening it becomes a beautiful pink.

Travel Theme : Below

Early this week we had been to this beautiful temple of Lord Ganapati, in a small hamlet, not very far from our place. The small temple is set in the space below huge boulders, they are just resting against each other. We climbed above the boulders and were delighted to see the river, the paddy…

The Daily Post Photo Challenge : Careful

This week, show us something careful — a photo taken with care, a person being careful, or a task or detail requiring care. Applying mehandi to the hands is a work of art and requires careful handling and concentration. Many have mehandi trees in their gardens. Earlier the leaves were ground to a paste, many…

A Photo a week challenge : tender moments

This photo is of my mother with her great grandson, it was taken more than a year ago and he is trying to remove my mother’s bindi and she is loving it:) This photo was taken this May 🙂 sweet exchanges. Eating ice cream from his great grandmother 🙂

Abandoned

James Herriot is one of my favourite writers, I was re-reading his book, Dog Stories. It is a collection of delightful stories, but some are very sad. They reflect the selfish, unfeeling cruelty of human beings. One such story is ‘Abandoned’. It is about those people who just abandon their dogs when they have had…

A Photo a week : Civic Buildings

A few years ago we had been in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is a beautiful, quiet place. The civic buildings looked so solid and majestic.

The Daily Post photo Challenge : (Extra) ordinary

Mundane and meaningful objects. Beautiful everyday things. This week, surprise us with something or someone (extra)ordinary. I expect wildly different and very personal takes on this theme, (Extra)ordinary, because our own ideas and experiences will shape our interpretations. What’s mundane yet meaningful to you? What’s a beautiful everyday thing? Or, maybe you can capture an ordinary setting or common scene that…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Graffiti & Murals

A few years ago, we had been Vadodara in the state of Gujarat. We saw this old Maratha mansion with beautiful murals . These paintings are thought to have been painted in 1874 and are mainly about the life of Lord Krishna.

The Daily Post Photo Challenge : Happy Place

Have you ever felt like the world was being a bit too rowdy? Where things and people were pushing in, crowding out your quiet thoughts — the ones that need time and space to surface? For me our Home is the happy place 🙂 “It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can…