I noticed this flowering artichoke plant last week, but it didn’t occur to me until a few minutes ago that it is a beautiful example of fray!
Written for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray
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Tag: photography
With the Eyes of a Child
Until I started taking pictures for the various photography challenges on Word Press, I had never had any photography experience. I was amazed at the beautiful pictures an Android phone could take. Not long thereafter, I realized that I was beginning to notice things I had never seen before. It was as if my eyes were opening to the world around me.
I had an interesting experience last week when I walked to my neighborhood schoolyard. It had rained the night before. My eyes were pulled to curves that had formed in some mud, where the mud met a bit of water. Continue reading “With the Eyes of a Child”
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
A Different Walk
In May, I wrote about a walk I took in my neighborhood. These are some of the pictures I snapped that morning.
Today I took another walk. This time I strolled along some of the bigger city streets. My pictures from today are very different from those I took in May.
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So sad. It is a never ending service opportunity though.
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Wordless Wednesday
Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
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On the Way Home
A friend agreed to take something to India for my daughter so I took the light rail to the airport to give it to her. As I walked up the hill on my way back home, this plant and it’s visitor caught my eye!
Al’s Bucket List Trip
Sreejit (my son), Chaitanya (my daughter) and Akshay (Chaitanya’s husband) came to the U.S. this summer to visit family, work and be part of Amma’s North American tour staff. Usually, they return to India immediately after the tour but this year their dad (my ex-husband) asked them to take him on a trip to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. It was a trip that Al, Sreejit and I had taken in 1976. Sreejit was still in a backpack at that time. This particular trip was an important part of Al’s “Bucket List” and he wanted all of us, including me, to participate.
Sreejit, Chaitanya and Akshay picked up their dad the day after they returned from Amma’s tour and they headed to Yellowstone. I joined them in the Tetons two days later.
The Grand Tetons were exquisite. Their beauty was muted by smoke from the fires in Washington, Oregon and California but they were still majestic. It was easy to imagine what they would look like in their full glory.
We had a wonderful trip and many experiences. Most important to me though was the time we spent together.!
Photo credit: Sreejit Poole
Al and Karuna
As we drove through Yellowstone on our way back to Seattle, we had two last surprises. After we passed this particular deer, we discovered there was another adult deer and three youngsters behind the trees. The young deer were playing; running away from their parents, through the forest and then back to their parents again, all at top speed! It was so much fun to watch them. And clearly being that close to the bison was amazing.
I’m so glad that Al brought us all together in this way. It is a memory that will last a lifetime for each of us.
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Living, Learning and Letting Go 