Safe and Sound (Sunday Photo Fiction)

The two bulbuls were frantically searching for the perfect place to build their nest. They had tried to build one inside a human dwelling.  They believed it to be safe. But to their disgust they were shown the way out. All their hard work had come to nothing. They remembered those days when they had…

Letter from Home-5 (#SOL 2019)

  28-01-19 Dear Doddamma, We are all fine here. Amma is in Hyderabad now with my elder brother. She and my sister-in-law went together on the 25th in their car. They halted that night in Bangalore in a cousin’s house and left the next morning. They reached their home in Hyderabad that evening. It was…

A Photo a Week Challenge: Contrasting Colors

Contrasting colors are colors that are on approximately opposite side of the color wheel. Yellow and purple, green and red, blue and orange, and a myriad of variations in-between each of those. Contrasting colors compliment each other and give interest and variety to images. Many visual art classes us exercises in contrasting colors. A Photo…

The Donkey (Sunday Photo fiction)

The little girl loved to listen to stories her mother read out to her. The stories came alive. That morning she had listened to the tale of the donkey and the washer-man. He had covered the donkey with a tiger’s skin and tried to fool the villagers. His stupidity had got the donkey killed by…

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #237 Answer&Question

  “Questions and answers Seemed to fly across the sky Just before sunset. Retiring after hard work Communication of birds.” RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #237 Answer&Question      

Letter from Home-4 (#SOL 2019)

                                                                           21-01-19 Dear Doddamma, Hope you have received amma and my letter. Amma enjoyed writing to you. While she…

#JusJoJan 2019 Daily Prompt – Jan. 21st – Echo

The word echo reminded me of our grandson. They were with us in November and December .  He used to enjoy repeating whatever we said. He would laugh and looking at him we would laugh.  A sweet and loveable echo. They are back in Germany. #JusJoJan 2019 Daily Prompt – Jan. 21st – Echo

A Photo a Week Challenge: Vanishing Point

A vanishing point, also known as the point of convergence, is a key element in many works of art. Think of the vanishing point is the spot on the horizon line where the other lines diminish. It allows us to a create three-dimensional look in drawings, paintings, and photographs. One day during the monsoon season we went to a temple. We…

# JustJoJan 2019 Daily Prompt January 18th- Companionship

  # JustJoJan 2019 Daily Prompt January 18th I remember the last months of my father in 2016 and the companionship between my parents. He passed away in September 2016. They had got married on 1st May 1959  

Dreaming across the channel (Sunday Photo Fiction)

She stood on the rocks and looked at the coastline in the distance. She could not believe that she had been able to swim all the way from there. But she had. She looked at her teammates and could see their love and satisfaction. She sat on the rocks and looked at the waves. As…