Favourites of the week-20/4-26/4

 No matter how much I fly, I don’t think I’ll probably ever get to the point where I don’t care about the gorgeous cloud formations. When the clouds are like this, it looks as though one could walk across them without sinking through. It feels that you would find unicorns or dragons or any number of mysterious creatures in the crevices and spaces of the clouds. I know it doesn’t really work that way, but it doesn’t stop my imagination. Honestly, who knows what is in the sky?

 

 The night I got home from traveling, I found this little guy inside my mosquito net. It took quite some time to get him out, as he sort of panicked and ran all around the inside of the net. I was afraid I’d smoosh him.
Anyway, the lizards were definitely the best part of that flat.

 I was buying some fruit and happened to glance out the door to see this. So flipping cute, and right in the middle of town. Pretty sure the fruit seller thought I was nuts, because I stopped right in the middle of paying for the fruit, ran outside with my camera, and took a couple of pictures. There was no way I was going to pass up an opportunity to get this picture. Mini donkeys sure do seem better behaved here. But perhaps I just have the world’s most spoiled mini donkeys…

Right after I took this picture, the dog freaked out and tried to attack me. Fortunately, I wasn’t close enough that he could reach me, because I think he was genuinely ready to kill me.

Right place at the right time, and I thought the sun over the tower made it look like a candle. I like the way it lined up just right.

The background of a village built on rubbish behind an elderly man and elderly walls provides an interesting contrast. You’d think you could never find dignity in places such as this, but there is dignity, love, honour, etc., everywhere you go.

I quite like goats. And they photograph well. I’m not sure what this one was focused on, but it was incredibly still for a goat. They usually enjoy bouncing around.  

This pack of dogs was walking around as though they owned the place. I liked how it turned out with the dogs being the main focus of the picture, though I was originally taking a picture of the wall behind them.

Old walls with the modern town behind them. There is such a mix of old and new all throughout India. It is always intriguing to me. I wish I knew the history behind it.

Moula Ali Durga overlooking the city.  Some things crumble, some things remain standing. There’s no telling when you build/write/design/make something how long it will last, but what matters is the joy you take in making it in the first place. It is better to feel joy while making something that will last only 5 minutes rather than to be miserable making something which will last 500 years. This at least is my opinion.

This boy’s smile makes me smile. It is such a beautiful smile. He was right in the middle of the other boys there. There were several younger boys, who were innocent and silly. Then there was a handful of older boys, who were bordering on creepy. This one was right in between age-wise, but his smile shows him to be far more innocent without tending toward creepy.

I like sunsets. I love INDogs. Need I say more?

I’m not even sure how I saw this little toad. It was dark, there were no streetlights, but somehow I saw him. Maybe passing headlights. I like seeing things when I can’t work out how I managed to see them.