Bird at dawn

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
-Rabindranath Tagore

My last post of 2011. Thanks so much to you all for being such a nice crowd and for following this blog. 
Let us count down to the start of what is hopefully a year of peace and happiness for us and ours. 

White Heron

Posted for SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters meme

Nishant meets Santa

Time-lapse at Sunset

My first short experimental time-lapse sunset. Camera is synchronized with the sun.

Light and smoke from welding

Posted for Thursday Challenge theme - "LIGHT" (Candle, Street, Business, Fireplace, Glitter, Sparkle,...)

Monochrome Portraiture

Plumeria Rubra

Posted for Mellow Yellow Monday and SOOC Sunday

Sunset

Posted for Camera Critters and SkyWatch Friday

Shod and unshod

RSS cadres performing their early morning drill. RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is a right-wing Hindu nationalist organization.

Posted for Thursday Challenge theme - SHOES (Boots, Sandals, Dress Shoes, Wooden Shoes, Stiletto heals, Horse Shoes,...) 

Lunar eclipse of December 10, 2011

Starts from the yellow moon clock-wise

Date: December 10, 2011
Time: From 6:30PM to 10PM
Review: A very satisfying lunar eclipse despite the clouds that eclipsed some parts.

Common Raven

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
-Juvenal

Posted for Camera Critters and Skywatch Friday

No paparazzi please!

Posted for Thursday Challenge theme - "COMMUNICATION" (Talking, Sign Language, Telephone, Technology,...)

Bee

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
-Jacques Yves Cousteau 

Posted for Mellow Yellow Monday, SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters meme 

Datura Inoxia flower

Posted for Today's Flowers and Green Monday meme

Caterpillar

Posted for Ruby Tuesday,  Macro Monday, SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters meme

Zinnia

Posted for Ruby Tuesday and Mellow Yellow Monday

Peacock

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way until the peacock led him in.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

Posted for SOOC Sunday and  Camera Critters meme 

Moon

Posted for Skywatch Friday

Alstroemeria (Peruvian Lily)

Posted for Ruby Tuesday, Today's Flowers and Mellow Yellow Monday

The stare

Rock

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

-Thomas Jefferson

Posted for SOOC Sunday and Thursday Challenge theme - "HARD" (Rock, Ice, Brick, Steel, Cement,...)

Colors

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
-Pablo Picasso

 Posted for Ruby Tuesday, Today's flowers and Mellow Yellow Monday

Dragonfly

Posted for SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters meme

Pink

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
-Audrey Hepburn

Caterpillar

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

Posted for Mellow Yellow Monday, SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters meme 

Marigold

Posted for Thursday Challenge theme "ORANGE" (Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers, Leaves, Clothing,...)

Blooms

Posted for Ruby Tuesday

Paper Wasp

Posted for SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters meme

Wordless

Emu eye

Posted for Camera Critters meme

Planting rice in the rain

Posted for Mellow Yellow Monday, SOOC Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Zinnia

Posted for Mellow Yellow Monday, Today's Flowers and SOOC Sunday

Light Bulb

Snail

Golden Pupa of Common Crow butterfly

Pupa of the nondescript Common Crow butterfly is shiny golden in color.


Posted for Thursday Challenge theme - "GOLDEN" (Fields, Sun, Flowers, Hair, Gold,...)

Web-based Antisocial Networking

Posted for Camera Critters

Mexican Butterfly Weed

Botanical Name: Asclepias curassavica
Common Names: Mexican Butterfly Weed, Scarlet milkweed, Tropical milkweed, Bloodroot, Bloodflower, Bastard Ipecacuanha


Posted for Ruby Tuesday and Mellow Yellow Monday

Grass

Posted for Green Monday and SOOC Sunday

Zebra

Posted for Camera Critters meme

Colors

Posted for Thursday Challenge theme - "LEARNING" (School, Books, Pens, Computers, Libraries,...)

Yellow lemon tree

Posted for Mellow Yellow Monday and Green Monday meme

Camera and CRITTER

Sunset and Moonrise

Posted for SkyWatch Friday

Lonely tree in a lake

Posted for Weekend Reflections

Hollyhock

Posted for Ruby Tuesday and  Mellow Yellow Monday

Rain!

Posted for Green Monday meme and  SOOC Sunday

Leopard

Posted for Camera Critters