The Chopped Trees are Re-growing!

A few months back it was sad to see the huge, giant trees being chopped down to broaden the roads on Hubli-Dharwad national highway. But here's something green about them now - they are re-growing.

Happy New Year 2012

Some artwork on the wall by the kiddos @ home for the New Year + Birthday party celebrations.

 The birthday cake

The official seal to enter the New Year Party (of course, only after paying the entrance fees :) for a party on the terrace).

Happy New Year 2012

Some Insects

Looks like a leaf, also as if it comes from a Grasshopper species

Does that belong to the Beetle or Ladybird species?

2 Dragonflies

Saw a rainbow early in the morning

It poured early morning from probably 4am and there was this beautiful semi-circular rainbow by 6am.

I could not view the right end of the rainbow clearly (lots of trees covering it).


This is how the same 2 trees looked like at 7pm after the rainbow cleared

Doggy sleeping peacefully in between a palm tree in Farmagudi, Goa

This doggy was so well camouflaged, that we did not notice it initially. Then when those 2 legs protruded out, we could make out.

Semi-Circular Well

Found this well in my native place - Chendia in Karwar.

It's strange that I never noticed this semi-circular well in any of the previous visits.

There's an old temple in the same lane as our house; though I am atheist, I liked (plz. note the past tense) visiting that temple as it was supposed to a temple my great granny was deeply connected too. Also, because of the pond next to the temple, where there were once crocodiles. Exactly opposite to this temple, is a house that has this semi-circular well.

Now, why past tense for liked visiting the temple - the last time I had been there was because the temple was renovated - the idol of the goddess & the entire template was a new one now. It was very heartbreaking to see a concrete building in place of that sweet old, cool temple.

Wasps Mud Capsules

Some pics - think it's a wasp's house (not getting exactly what to say)
Found this in my native place - our home - no one stays there

Kerchief Motifs - Irish Crochet Rose

Think my blog is more about Crochet, than anything else. Can't help it!!!! That's what I'm fascinated with currently ;)

An Irish Crochet Rose - the first I've ever tried in Irish Corchet

Pineapple Crochet Shawl

Finally, my wait for a self-made crochet shawl ends with this one

This pattern was a love-at-first-sight (about one & a half year ago) but it took me this long because I was reluctant to work in wool as I wanted to use it as a Jacket and not a shawl. I tried this pattern earlier with black mercerized crochet cotton (2 strands), but then after 6 rows I realized the work was half the size of what it should have been and hence discontinued.

Finally, this rainy season I felt the need for a shawl – as sweater felt too warm and lo I had the pattern and 185 grams of black wool. Think this shawl got done in 7 or 8 hours (Tuesday to Tuesday, about an hour a day).

Visit Caron’s for the Black Pineapple Crochet Shawl pattern.

A Crochet Lace

Enjoyed making this crochet lace. Spent 2 days to make a lace long enough to stitch as sleeves for a dress. But on completion, realized the colour, look & feel may not blend well with the dress.


So this lace is waiting in my Lace Collection (Box) waiting to be used; just like 2 other laces, which were started out to be Crochet Tops. Only to realize that Thread Crochet is a lot of work :( but I must say it's interesting as well.

Well, Another Chickoo Pic

This one has a different pattern. Most other Chickoo slices look like they have a Spider on them.

Long Time, No See!

Finally blogging after a long gap. Well, this post is not about something, but it's about just some random thoughts:

• So many things look such a waste of time after they are completed. Looking for meaning in what I do, which I often don't find/see.
  
• Interests change with time. Sometimes I wonder how I have not been embroidering for 3 yrs now; something I was crazy about. Then was an avid crocheter. Then a long break from crochet.
• Things change - like my internet speed - probably this is what took away the fun from blogging.

Well, out of thoughts now :)

Spider design in Chickoo

2 weeks ago, papa sliced a Chickoo (Sapota) and the structure (lines, spaces for seeds) looked like a spider

2005 Diwali Rangoli- Sanskar Bharati

Just came across this snap by chance when copying data from old CDs. I had seen this rangoli in a newspaper and wanted to try it. This is a Sanskar Bharati rangoli. They are basically free hand designs where motifs are practiced and later incorporated to form large rangolis.

Think this was drawn somewhere in November 2005 on Diwali.

Just missed February 2009 by a year

Know what, just realized this year that most February's have 4 Sundays, 4 Mondays, 4 Tuesdays, 4 Wednesdays, 4 Thursdays, 4 Fridays and 4 Saturdays...... and I thought wow, that's a perfect month.

But realized that I missed the Perfect month by almost a year....

Take a look at February 2009: The Perfect Month

Tarkarli Beach, Konkan, Maharashtra - a Family Vacation

Tarkarli Beach is one such beach I had been waiting to visit, ever since papa mentioned about it in January 2009. Lovely waters, they are so clear, clean, and the best part you can walk into the sea for several meters and the water level is only knee-deep. By the way, the other beach I am waiting to visit is Tilamati Beach in Karwar; my sister-in-law's told me that the sand is very grainy over there, almost like sesame seeds. 'Til' meaning 'Sesame seeds' in my mother tongue 'Konkani'.

I shot this video on 1st January, 2010. It was the day after the Lunar Eclipse and we were all on the beach since probably 9 in the morning till way until 12 noon.

On Tarkarli Beach, just before we started to leave we came across a few fishermen who were about to take their boats to the sea. They were not intending to go fishing right away, but somewhere in the evening. They also mentioned that it gets too difficult to be taking their boat to the sea as it gets sunnier (afternoons). I wish I could have stayed a little longer to continue the video recording for a few more minutes. It had been 5 minutes or so since all my family members had cleared from Tarkarli Beach, so couldn't help ending the video.

After getting drenched in the waters of Tarkarli, we went boating on River Karli to see the point where River Karli meets Arabian Sea. Kind of "Karli meets Tarkarli". Also, a little further from there we landed on Tsunami Island (an island formed by Tsunami that hit South India in 2004).

That River + Sea was full of Seagulls. I regret one video using my mobile camera - I thought I clicked on shooting the video & minutes later when we were away from the group of Seagulls, I saw the message "Camera on Standby". Argggh!!!

A Lazy Blogger

I have to admit, I am a lazy blogger. I had thought at least this time, I'll be regular with my blogs. But looks like I keep changing my mind often. I have started to think why just write one blog with loads of categories mixed up - instead feeling that I should have a different blog for different things like - Embroidery, Crochet, Painting, Knitting (just a beginner), Tunisian Crochet (haven't seen many blogs on this so), Cookery, Photos (just a novice), Rangoli (there was a time I wanted to try all the kinds of rangolis that ever existed), Books I've read (much like a backup for me on what I take from them) etc, etc.

Somewhere, I have come to believe my approach towards life is wrong. Whenever I take up something (literally anything), I want to do everything that's there in it - only to realize that it'll take a lot of time, dedication. But can't help it, I like to work things from A to Z. But I really dont achieve much that way. Because I can't be thinking about just one thing - too many interests.

Burning Charcoal

Snaps of burning charcoal taken in the dark

A Ray of Light - Sathodi Falls

This is one of the pics taken during our office picnic to Sathodi Falls on 10th February, 2008. I like this pic for the Ray of Light that the camera captured

Series of Cloud Snaps

I never thought clouds could be changing so fast until I took these snaps. The snaps were shot with a difference of some 10 to 15 seconds between them.