# Day 68 Once more, once more!

Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more! ~Jean Paul Friedrich Richter 

Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

translated from German by Charles T. Brooks, 1865

# Day 67 Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?

Listen Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen!
Its okay to have a glowing shiny red-nose,
Its not okay to use it to laugh and call him names,
and its not okay to keep poor Rudolph from joining in any reindeer games!

Rudolph shouldn't need to save Christmas for you to accept him!

# Day 66 Glorious Sunsets!

"When the sun has set, no candle can replace it."

— George R.R. Martin

# Day 65 Love is like a sunset, a blaze of color...

“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...” ― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

# Day 64 Drama in the skies!

This week, I am going to be posting sunset series. Each day there is going to be one picture, absolutely untouched (except for the occasional slight crop). 

# Day 63 The Sunday Market

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

Jane Elliot

# Day 62 Another Diagonal Shot!

This is an absolutely untouched photo!

# Day 61 It's almost Christmas!

Dress Rehearsal for Santa!

# Day 60 For my love of stained glass windows!

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

# Day 59 Thinking Diagonally

Yes, I am the ‘contemplative pragmatist’.

# Day 58 Soft white frost!

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. 

~ E. E. Cummings Quotes

P.S: This picture was taken in the evening at about 6 pm, with very little light coming from the street lamp post.  

# Day 57 As the sun warms our soul...

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.

~ Unknown

# Day 56 Where children go to school!

“Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.”

― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

This is a shot from our bedroom window, and it is such a heartening sight for me. Everyday, children dressed and going to school, seeing so many families holding hands as they walk to school, kissing their kids as they drop them off is a sight that makes me feel - we got some things right!  

# Day 55 Those muddy, rainy days!

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

# Day 54 How does one become a butterfly?

“How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

― Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

# Day 53 For the love of learning and the sequestered nooks!

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,

And all the sweet serenity of books”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

P.S: Though I can hardly study in a garden, I love finding reading nooks in the open, and Cambridge has so many of these! My favored ones are in warm, cozy bookstores. 

# Day 52 Melting Frost

# Day 51 From the roof top!

“It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”

― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

# Day 50 A flower just blooms!

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

~ Zen Shin

# Day 49 Freckled Yellow Leaf!

"Them's not freckles, them's fairy dust!"

# Day 48 1960s

I haven't had the opportunity or time to learn to learn Photoshop yet. In the meanwhile, I am solely dependent on PICASA to process my images. I am not a big fan of filters, but thought I'd give the "1960s" a try. 

# Day 47 Christmas is coming!

Yesterday, I was the official photographer for the Christmas Crafts Fair at my son's school. One of the shots from the fair!

# Day 46 Monochrome Roses

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

~Benicio Del Toro

# Day 45 Earth laughs in flowers

“Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys

Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;

Who steer the plough but cannot steer their feet

Clear of the grave.”

Hamatreya, Ralph Waldo Emerson

# Day 44 Sunlit Mushrooms

"Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom."

~Thomas Carlyle

# Day 43 - Raindrop

Our son with Raindrop, the neighbour's cat. Raindrop was a stray pregnant cat, rescued by our neighbour's daughter, Megan. She had found her near her college, and brought her home, so she could have her kittens at a safe, warm place. Raindrop had 4 beautiful kittens, and she is just a really affectionate cat.  

# Day 42 Cafe at night!

The more I am using this lens, the more I am falling in love with it. It is such a versatile lens for being fixed focal length, but I especially love its night shots.

# Day 41 And we are back to a typical Cambridge shot!

# Day 40 I am there for you!

Max showing his plastered paw to Ashok

# Day 39 Get cooking!

This is a picture from the Mexican night we had at our friend's place, a while back. And that's enchiladas in the oven. I love the bokeh from the oven light, and the leading lines in the photograph, esp the one on the lower right hand corner. 

# Day 38 It is a happy talent to know how to play ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
~Rachel Carson

# Day 37 Last Judgement

The 19th-century Last Judgment in the West Window of the Kings College Chapel. Doom or "the Doom" was a specific term for the Last Judgement. Dooms were encouraged by the early medieval Church as an instrument to highlight the contrasts between the reward of Heaven and the agony of Hell so as to guide Christians away from misbehaviour and sin. A Doom was usually positioned either on the rear (liturgical Western) wall, if that space was available, or at the front (Chancel end) of a church, often on the Chancel arch itself so that it would be constantly visible to worshipers as they faced the altar during services. Most dooms in English churches were destroyed by government authority during the English Reformation.

# Day 36 Less is more.

“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

# Day 35 Punts at the Dock

The angle of this picture makes me so dizzy, but then again, the fact that the angle at which the shot is taken can make such a difference, is the reason I chose it as today's selection.  

# Day 34 The Jerwood Library

Designed by Freeland Rees Roberts, the Library was funded by the Jerwood Foundation. Built as an addition to an early 20th century set of staircases, the library overhangs the River Cam offering excellent views of the river and its explorers.

# Day 33 Another shot of picturesque Cambridge

 Oh! So pretty Cambridge! 

# Day 32 Stopping by woods on an autumn afternoon

Yes, this scene of Cambridge backs reminded me of Robert Frost's poem. 

# Day 31 Bonfire night!

I had planned for a completely different shoot, but my son met his friend and we joined them right near the barricades. I realized there was no point in trying to set up a tripod, and I wasn't going to risk changing my lens as I was getting pushed and shoved in the crowd. I stuck with the 50mm that was on the camera, raised my ISO, and decided on hand held shooting.  

# Day 30 Kings College Chapel

I was out on a photo walk with my friend, Peter, and were walking past the KCC, so had to click a picture. It is an amazing sight, every time I look at it!  I love the fluffy cotton white clouds above, the cows in the foreground...it is just so picturesque! 

# Day 29 Fiery November

No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one Autumnal face....

~John Donne, "Elegy IX: The Autumnal"

# Day 28 Gates unlocked...

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

~ Steve Wozniak

# Day 27 Imagine!

# Day 26 Post Halloween!

Spiderman having a rest!

# Day 25 Its Halloween!!

Max got a scarf for Halloween. And here he is proudly modelling his new clothes! 

# Day 24 And the world goes round...

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

Tom Freston

P.S: This is a bad image, but it has nothing to do with my photography skills, and everything to do with a globe that doesn't turn well :)

# Day 23 Bead by Bead

“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.”

― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

# Day 22 The last few leaves!

This picture, and similar scenes every autumn, remind me of O. Henry's "The Last Leaf". Growing up, I was a really big fan of his short stories, and would always try to guess the surprise ending. The gift of Magi, After twenty years, those were some really enchanting stories. 

# Day 21 Here comes the Spiderman!

Can he swing from a thread

Take a look overhead

Hey, there

There goes the Spiderman.

# Day 20 - My creative outlet!

I started photography when my son was little, I think when he was about 5 months old. I used to shoot with a Canon powershot, and it gave me a creative outlet. As a young girl, I used to paint and, I still enjoy it, but don't have as much time to devote to my hobby. Photography, I guess, now fills that gap; and if that were true, then this blog is my art space. 

# Day 19 Circus in town!

Not my Circus, not my monkeys!