baby parrot come again ....

I am terribly late in introducing this lovely guest to you . This was about a week back from Diwali , i heard some unusual flutter outside my window . A pleasant chirp of a herd of parrots is nothing new but they keep themselves perched on the higher branches of the trees mostly . I have failed miserably whenever i tried to shoot them

I feel so lucky to be so close to nature , green surroundings , a jungle-garden and loads of birds . I have seen so many colors , shapes and sizes of birds here and many of them choose to make their nests in my trees . But i am very bad at taking pictures ... i am so engrossed in the experience of watching them that i forget to shoot them most of the times . On the other times when i rush inside to fetch the camera , i get so conscious of not disturbing them and i fail ...... to take a decent picture.

 This is how i shot this baby ....

up and close .........

He just hopped here n there a few times and flew away ... i have been waiting for him to come down from the higher branches since then .... hard luck .... but he is so cute .  This picture i shot in the last week of October .

A child can be so easily recognized by his/her body language , checking out everything and taking short uncertain flights ... this baby is flying a bit more confidently now but is not giving me any opportunity to shoot him .... waiting till then.

my garden pictures...

Okay ...i have a garden in the middle of Delhi and i am not a millionaire .... i don't live in a huge bungalow surrounded by a lush garden for your kind information . It is a small apartment located in a government owned campus . I am on the ground floor and luckily there is open garden space both in the front and back . There is a huge drumstick tree , a nice lemon tree loaded with lemons right now , a curry patta tree , a jamun tree both in the front and back , a bael tree and a chakotra ( grapefruit ) tree adorning my garden . Apart from this there is a mehendi fence interrupted with paarijat bushels and a very fragrant variety of jasmine too . I keep planting some seasonal flowers and vegetables but there is no set layout and the overall look is like an unkempt patch of greenery .... here are a few glimpses....

                                                                          the Araucaria  ....

                                                                  Pink Abutilon .........

                                                    Violet creeper ( railway creeper )...

 

 Right side of the garden during rains........right behind the papaya tree the curry patta and lemon tree are jostling for space ........

Left side of the garden .........you can see the plants battered by rains , sunflowers can be seen which were in the last lap of their growth span , they are huge sunflowers ( 6-7 inch diameter ) rains made it difficult for them ... In this picture only a few sunflower plants have been left . I am posting a riot of sunflowers in the later part of this post ....scrawl down...... Luckily i have saved a few seeds.

                                                  The papaya trees about a month ago...

 Some potted greenery..................

 

                                                          Growing almost wild.......

                               These lilies look like two shining stars to me......... almost wild again...

A small rock garden i tried to construct , still needs some work....

Mogra during the rains.........last lap of the mogra season.................

                                                         Isn't it wild ....well almost....

                                                                Some more abutilons....

                                                          A branch of lemons in the sunshine........

             The Gomphrenas i uprooted last week and saved the bright colored flowers for dry decorations...

                                                                          Close up....

                                                           One more shot of the Araucaria...

                                   And now ........my happy sunflowers .........attracting lots of bees....

                                                           
                                                                  The buds coming up.......

                                                                       Young flowers.......

                                                            Growing neatly in a row......

                                                      Drooping with it's own weight....

                                                         Don't they look absolutely happy........

 Wait for some other happy looking flowers in the next post ............these were all my summer flowers and the overdrive of the rainy season ...... some quite winter things next time.....

A few of my readers and friends have been asking for my garden pictures ....... i want to remind you my friends...that , this is a lazy woman's garden and the pictures have been uploaded in a lazy frenzy.....if there is something like that .............. but the pictures made me happy in the middle of the night and hope they will do the same to you too......... cheers !!!

diwali was great ...

Diwali was great .
There is always something to look up to , only i have to focus my eyes on that .
Small little things to feel good about .

There were no celebrations and it felt like a low and dull weak . The more i saw others cleaning and decorating the more i felt terrible . I wanted to clean up the house at least , lots of things needed my attention but everything was ignored very conveniently ...under the guise of self pity .

On the day of diwali i decided to drown myself in something crafty . Strange, but it was good . It was an instant idea of joining 4 handmade woolen mats to make two cushion covers . It took all my time till the afternoon .

These very old, much used mats were used for the most significant thing of their life .

 I clicked these pictures too after finishing them . These were two white and two black mats and i made two sided cushions with them ..

As soon as i finished them , a very sweet thing happened . In my neighborhood , an uncle is partially paralyzed for the last two years and he rarely goes anywhere ... other than hospital visits and a drive to India Gate her daughter treats him with . His family takes very good care of him and they decided to bring him to our place this Diwali . This is the beautiful thing happened this Diwali when this uncle brought me gifts and blessings . It was wonderful !!

Another very nice thing was that a couple who were apparently headed for divorce got together this Diwali .... and it was because of my small little contribution in their life . I had invested some of my time and lots of my emotions towards them and the result was really wonderful . I got a call from them how happy they are ...making some future plans . Isn't it a wonderful feeling when we touch lives and make a positive difference to each other .

I hope such wonderful things keep coming in my life . What do you feel ?? Could it be any better ??

wishing light to all of you...

A doodle for light ...

welcoming all the lights and cheers and sending them back to you all.........