Last Friday when Elsa & I went out for our morning walk with Ann & Kerry, Ann told me that a kitty was roaming around in the parking lot for the past two days.  It sits under one car hood or the other and mews very loudly almost the whole night.  Apparently, the building manager was making some efforts to get hold of it.  As I listened, I just ( Read more... )

After having a hectic schedule for the past couple of weeks (I am yet to catch up with all your LJ’s), I finally got a chance to unwind and also use my camera in what seems like ages.  The little one you see here is Molly.  She is a one-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel.  Molly always reminds me of Elsa as a puppy, cute and cuddly though Elsa ( Read more... )

I had mentioned about my trip to the National Zoo in my previous entry.  One of the reasons i wanted to go was to see the Panda cub - Tai Shan.  Tai chan was fast asleep in a man-made cave where as the mother Mei Xiang was outside chomping away happily on bamboo.

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Last saturday we had been to the National Zoo. We walked almost the entire zoo and saw most of the animals, but the reptile section. N had wanted to go in and see them but I was not too keen on it, so we skipped that.

The primate section was not very large and I was disappointed. Two Gorillas have died in the last month and the ones that were ( Read more... )

Visit to DC isn’t complete, if you have not been to the Mall area.  Apart from this, there are several memorials, that are lined up here.  This one is a shot of the Lincoln memorial, taken during sunset, about which I had mentioned in my previous entry.  This memorial was built in honor of President Abe Lincoln and it was built to resemble a Greek ( Read more... )

Earlier this month, we had friends visiting us from the West coast and like always, a trip to DC was inevitable.  We went to Lincoln memorial and Korean War memorial and we were walking towards the World war two memorial. There is a strip of water body in between the two. As we walked, a funny site caught my eye - There were people walking in a ( Read more... )

It is heart-breaking to see and hear of so much of blood shed everywhere.  As I child I saw and heard more of small time (read local) assailants - Naxalites, Political goons… Slowly I started to get more familiar with things that were on a larger scale - LTTE, Maoists, Wars to rip apart individual states from India and things on these lines.  Then ( Read more... )

This is an assortment of different kind of lilies.  I tried to look up and see if I could match the type of lily picture I had, to the various categories they are divided into, but I was not so successful.  So I present to you, the lilies as per their colours.


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Back home in India, I remember coming back home from school, to the warm smiles from our mother and the invigorating aroma of our evening snack.  No sooner had we freshened up, our mother used to call out ‘Kaapi pivchaka yeyaachi re’ meaning ‘Come for coffee’ to which we used to have impish smiles on our faces, ‘cos we never got coffee but juice or ( Read more... )

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