...is always fraught with difficulties. One can never really *visualize*, sitting in one set of atmospheric conditions, how cold or hot it will be in the other place. The pleasant chill of Bangalore is something I don't even consider as winter, so I tend not to pack really warm clothes at all...then I have to remind myself how it will be in the ( Read more... )

It happens every time I go out of town. I come back, I check my email, check my LJ friends' list...but there is a strange diconnect, and a reluctance to comment on friends' posts..It's as if I am still on the outside, looking in at a scene that is going on...it will take me a while to get on to "the same page" and start interacting...I *do* enjoy ( Read more... )

"Berry" enjoyable Sunday....


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Here's a water tank on top of a building in Chennapatna (I think) on the road from Bangalore to Mysore....


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This picture was taken by my son-in-law, as our bus bumped its way through the rural areas of Karnataka. Paddy fields, all green velvet, so inviting in the summer sun...and even more beautiful as the sun was obliterated by the rain clouds and the drops started splashing down....


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On Saturday, we had decided that we would leave for shopping at 9 am so naturally some of us woke up only at 10.30 or so...we went to the St Louis temple for darshan, but more importantly, brunch. By the time we met friends of DnA and went around the temple, the excellent pongal that one friend had talked about was past tense (you can see from ( Read more... )