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 Saturday Symmetry

Ceiling detail in a Gangotri mandir (temple).

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"They are not long, the days of wine and roses..."

(Ernest Dowson)

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At last, it's the Last Thursday of the month and we draw to a close (apart from two more posts) a month of Indian reminiscence. I hope you have enjoyed it! I've managed to get through this far without, but maybe one is not too much of a brag. Here's the YAMster standing in the Palampur tea plantation. Just in case you doubted I was ever there...

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Wings on Wednesday;
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

The Indian White-throated Kingfisher. I only ever saw it once and had to work quickly for it was gone almost as fast as it appeared. This was the best of a very hurried series of rather poor shots.

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 Scene That...

... doesn't really need words, does it?

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 Monday's Critters

Up at Gangotri, we met this fellow and his brother, who had a small herd of young Changthangi - Pashmina Goats. Yes, the ones with the wool that is as warm as the Eiders' down...

Clearly they were anticipating to reap a fibre harvest - one grown with love and care.

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 MOONdays

The moon from Mumbai... taken with the Nik not long after I got it. I was standing on the roof terrace and it was a winter's night, surprisingly clear and fresh skies.

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 Saturday Symmetry

Architecture, no matter how hard it tries, cannot fail to offer symmetry! (Campus of IIT Bombay.)