Waiting for rain...

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Coming back...

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.
- Isabelle Adjani
Yea..the picture is of some unknown plant growing after first rains here. I didnt see any of these during long months of summer but after first showers of rain, they suddenly appear out of nowhere. Yes, if nothing happens, doesnt really mean one has disappeared, isnt it? I especially like the shape of leaves, wide and all encompassing :)

A Messenger...

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
- Anne Frank
Yes, the pic is 'umber' fruit :D

Snailed...

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
- Anonymous
Now, that pic is a snail shell :D

Quietly...

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
- A Zen saying.

Yes, thats an old pic, a butterfly :D

True beauty...

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein

The pic is grown up plant of 'Mirchee' :)

New-ton...

Few quotes by Issac Newton -
- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
- I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
- We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Yea, the pic is too old to remember except that it was rainy season. I miss rains!

Small Wonders...

Do i need to say anything more?
- Cheers!!!

Serious joke...

World War-II, one of the most horrific wars, shaped the face of the world. When the war was in progress, the big-three(Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin) met in 1943 at Tehran. The following incident that happened during this conference, is taken from Winston Churchill's "World War-II Vol-5".
The big three, the most powerful men at the time were having diner togather. The matter of discussion was what should be done to Germany after the war.
The German General staff, he(Stalin) said, must be liquidated. The whole force of Hitler's mighty armies depended upon about fifty thousand officers and technicians. If these were rounded up and shot at the end of war German military strength will be exterpated. On this I (Churchill) thought it right to say, "The British Parliament will never tolerate mass executions. Even if in war passion they allowed them to begin they would turn violently against those responsible after the first butchery had taken place. The Soviets must be under no delusion on this point."
Stalin however, perhaps only in mischief, persued the subject. "Fifty thousand," he said ,"must be shot". I was deeply angered. "I would rather", I said ,"be taken out into the garden here and now and be shot myself than sully my own and my country's honour by such infamy".
At this point the President(Roosevelt) intervened. He had a compromise to propose. Not fifty thousand should be shot, but only fourty-nine thousand. By this he hoped, no doubt, to reduce the whole matter to ridicule. Eden(one of the staff) also made signs and gestures intended to ressure me that it was all a joke. But now Elliot(Roosevelt's son) rose in his place at the end of the table and made a speech, saying how cordially he agreed with Marshall Stallin's plan and how sure he was that United States army would support it. At this intrusion I got up and left the table, walking off into the next room, which was in semi-darkness.
I had not been there a minute before hands were clapped on my back from behind, and there was Stalin, with Molotov on his side, both grinning broadly, and eagerly declaring that they were only playing, and that nothing of a serious character had entered their heads. Stalin has a very captivating manner when he chooses to use it, and I never saw him do so to such an extent as at this moment. Although I was not then, and am not now, fully convinced that all was chaff and there was no serious intent lurking behind, I consented to return, and rest of the evening passed pleasantly.
Hmmm...anyway..:) the tiny plant that you see in the pic is mirchee :)

Built-in knowledge...

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
Yea, the book in the pic is Winston Churchill's World War-2 vol. 5 (Closing the Ring) :D

Footprints of man...

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
- Alexander Pope

Yea the ruler in picture i used to use during my engineering years hehe :)

Surviving beauty...

Thats some wild plant grown in rubble near my house. Nature thrives even in the extremes, isnt it?

Yin and yang...

Complementary opposites. Created together in a single moment, bound together as parts of a mutual whole.

Sometimes, one plus one is really greater than two. Isnt it?

Yea the pic is shells you find in sand.
Cheers! :D!!

Still life...

Still life...so calm, smooth and so peaceful!

As a consequence of summer and ongoing construction work we have no garden so i will be posting more and more still life photos and less of nature photos. Please bear my 'experimental photography' for sometime.

Cheers!
:D!!

Newton's dilemma...

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
-Albert Einstein

Yea...those are stones you find in sand. The composition too you must have seen at a number of places, I guess its very natural for humans to put stones on top of each other. :)

Soft, radiant and alive

Pictures express so much more than words can, aint it?
Yea, now thats a bunch of wildflowers, these plants tend to grow almost anywhere and some are so rare that i have seen them only a few times. Dont know how they propagate and survive.
Cheers! :D

Mundane 2...

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Yes thats a sunset from our terrace! since we are building another floor up, I hope I will be able to get still better sunset pic than this :D

On other thoughts, ironically(ironically because i have quoted Gandhiji), SM got 8 oscars, and i wonder,"Poverty in India still sells?". By the way, if people are celebrating in the name of acceptance of indian cinema on international scale, then, have they themselves accepted the movie? I used to hear lot of protests till the very last week. Really...people forget so soon!

Trapped in an Ice Cube...

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
-George Bernard Shaw

Token of good times...

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense

-Rosten Leo

The laughing philosopher...

Ask a philosopher 'what is philosophy?' or a historian 'what is history?' and they will have no difficulty in giving an answer. Neither of them can really persue his own descipline without knowing what he is searching for. But ask a mathematician 'what is mathematics?' and he may justifiably reply that he does not know the answer but this does not stop him from doing mathematics
-Francois Lasserre
Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessory to use logic
-Pierre Boutroux
An intellectual is a man who doesnt know how to park a bike
-Spiro Agnew
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unresonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher
-Ambrose Bierce
Lecturing is transfer of information from notes of lecturer to notes of students without anything passing through the minds of either.
-Unknown
And...yes..the plant is really strange one we have, the parent had lot of hair like leaves but the one you see in the pic has something similar to rose leaves hehe :D