Blue Skies, Rolling Meadows

Feeble Attempts

I'm still struggling to make a go of Project 365 ever since I lost my camera. Suddenly, taking pictures with my mobile phone, a relatively recent phenomenon for me (less than a year old) is no longer much fun. I also struggle with a conscience - I know I've missed out one more day and hence the confession before I can say one of these photos makes up for that (who's going to count anyway?)

I was hoping to have the new camera today but the one I've chosen is a fairly high-end point and shoot, so it isn't readily available - it has been ordered by the dealer and will arrive at his showroom only next week.

Here, then are the photos from the last one week or more. Bad pictures most of them, but at least they represent an attempt to not give up :(.

Travelling ...

Couscous, eaten with chicken one day and beans and capsicum the next.


What do those look like? They are neither burn marks nor a skin disease, just the shadow of raindrops from the windshield on my hand under a yellow street light!


Leeks and onions frying for an eggy delight


Feng Shui charms from a night market in Taiwan - really not sure what they represent. The first one (the circular one) is for money, that's what the hawker said, and she didn't know much more English beyond that.

Two, no, three of my favourite persons


At the bank - now rules require that the locker keys be inscribed with some code


A curry leaf fish fry that I made recently


Can you spot the "idli dhokla"?


English as she is spoken :)

How Not To Exercise

Not Quite Cross Dressing

My mother and I went shopping this morning. It's usually male sales assistants in stores and they show off the sari pretty well.
On another note, an aunt of mine refuses to buy a sari if an assistant (or anybody else) drapes it to show it off, however helpfully.

At Yoga Class - 2

Finger Food

Untied

I got the knots out of this old rubber band with great difficulty and great dexterity - the kind that you impress yourself with. Today, I just put it in this shape and it stayed there. I knew I wouldn't have much more opportunity for photos today (as most other days), so I captured it.

Has it ever struck you that you just have to transpose one letter for 'untied' to turn into 'united'?

All Smiles

Flora & Fauna

Soup Stalled!

Guess what planpitch is?

Chick Lit, Choklit

I'm due for a weigh-in tomorrow, so naturally I had to undo the goodness of the past few months and be tempted by a wicked chocolate cake (not seen in picture as it's inside the tummy.) And clean out a fruit trifle that The Spouse ate most of.

In other news, I've stuck to my resolve not to read big fat mystery books for a while, and the above is what I'm reading.

Irony

This is where it has been stuck for the past couple of months!

The Pleasures Of The Flesh

The assistant at the tender coconut stall on the pavement looked bemused, and then amused, when I asked him to hold this and pose for a photo. In the many seconds that it took to convince him I was no nut, another customer came by so he became unavailable and this had to go back to the pavement, where the owner thoughtfully swatted the flies while I took my picture.

Biriyani

This is how it began ...


And this is how it ended!

I Didn't Eat All Of It!

A blogger friend from across the seas was in our city and I met her along with another friend. We ordered taco for one, potato skins for us, chimichanga for the other and Waldorf salad for me, with specific requests for fresh lettuce and lots of walnuts, both of which I got. The cute and wizened waiter was mighty amused at the request, though, and kept laughing to himself all the time we were there. He kept asking me whether the lettuce was fresh, whether the walnuts were 'lots' and how I liked the salad. I liked it a lot, but for the decorative tomatoes, arranged what they no doubt thought was artistically, around the plate. He laughed more when I said I was very happy with it. I think he was laughing AT me.

Summer Beauty

One day, I'll be discovered. I must have been a sight to those who guessed what I was doing, taking a picture without looking at the cell phone while purportedly crossing the road. Rather like the cat who drank the milk with its eyes closed thinking no one would guess if it did so!

Stuck!

When this happened the other day with The Spouse as he raised the bottle to his mouth for a drink of water, I told him to wait and rapidly shot pictures of the fibre coaster stuck to the bottle, thinking it was a rare occurrence. I didn't post those pictures because something else presented itself. But over the last couple of days, this bottle has stuck to whichever coaster it's put on (why was it on coasters anyway) and today, I made it picture of the day. Guess there's something sticky underneath the bottle and it's nothing to do with the scientific reason behind Ganesh drinking milk all those years ago!

Mind Your Language!

Glacial Melting, Not Quite Global Warming

Out Of The Closet

We went out for a quick lunch and saw this on our way out. I knew it had to be the picture of the day!