# Day 246 Funfair Night in Cambridge

# Day 245 Making Pizza!

# Day 244 Crispy dosa reminds me of home!

# Day 243 Happy Diwali!

# Day 242 Happy Halloween!

# Day 241 Yellow Autumn

# Day 240 Rose hips!

# Day 239 The clever crow and the baby crow :)

# Day 238 Half-term showers is spent making bubbles!

# Day 237 Tomatoes and true love!

As the old saying goes, "there ain't nothing better in life than true love and homegrown tomatoes". I have true love and our neighbours have homegrown tomatoes :)

# Day 236 Sunny autumnal day

# Day 235 Beautiful England!

# Day 234 Autumn in Mill lane

# Day 233 Another day, another window!

# Day 232 Newnham Windows in Fall

# Day 232 I am moving on to Mac!

After years and years of being a PC user, Ashok bought me a new MacPro, and I couldn't be more delighted. The thing is a beauty and feels so precious! And this is my first blog post on my Mac. 

# Day 232 Knitted flowers in Jesus Green to raise awareness of sexual violence

My friend, Gillian Greer, was part of this amazing project sponsored by the charity Rape Crisis. The artwork is made from over 1,000 knitted and crocheted Rhapsody clematis flowers and leaves, covering 12 square metres of fencing on Jesus Green. It was intended to raise awareness about sexual violence.

# Day 231 Fallen leaves

# Day 230 Brain cap made at the Learning Festiva

# Day 229 Ashok's favourite animal!

# Day 228 Planting grains during Navratri

During the nine days of celebration that leads to Dusshera, Hindus have a custom of planting foodgrains (usually barley seeds) in a small bed of mud on the first day. The shoots on the 9th day are given to friends, as a blessing from the Goddess. We didn't have barley, so we tried with mustard seeds and turned it into a forest with Kunal's toy animals. We weren't very hopeful given the UK weather, but it turned out not bad. Here is an ariel shot of our jungle. 

# Day 227 LEGO is universal!

We painstakingly organised the lego bricks into this sorter-container, and as soon as we finished doing it, we started building again. Something about building lego is so addictive and satisfying. 

# Day 226 Chess...

...is not always about winning. Sometimes, it's simply about learning. And so is life.
Shot during the weekend when Kunal was learning how to play.
Ashok let him win, and Kunal was ecstatic. 

# Day 225 Can you spot the rainbow?

Yesterday, it was raining with sunny intervals, and we were waiting for the rainbow to show up. We finally spotted it right above the trees! 

# Day 224 Crystal flowers as our son calls it

# Day 233 Telibandha lake, Raipur

As part of the city beautification program, the urban poor housing in Telibandha was painted beautiful to serve as a backdrop for the lake. 

# Day 232 Keep calm and love cows!

# Day 231 Under the tree!

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker

# Day 230 Wrought Iron Art of Bastar

# Day 229 Baja Bajgari - Art representing the village music bands in Chhattisgarh

# Day 228 Lal Qil'ah (The Red Fort)

# Day 227 The ornamental lamp posts!

# Day 226 The graffiti art on Nuns way park

# Day 225 Our lovely Max!

# Day 224 Yay! We have sunshine again :)

# Day 223 “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

# Day 222 Chocolate chip muffins anyone?

# Day 221 Be like a sunflower...

...so that even on the darkest days you will stand tall find the sunlight.

# Day 220 Photographing Light

For a change, there has been plenty of sunshine in Cambridge, which makes taking photos both tricky and interesting. So, for the next few days, I want to post pictures that capture light (and shadows!). 

# Day 219 Lo and behold...presenting the first pumpkin!

# Day 218 Welcome Autumn!

For those who might not know, this is a pumpkin flower growing in our backyard. To mark the first day of Autumn, I wanted to pick something which is very autumnal, and yet not your typical autumn shot. This picture, I thought, satisfies those criteria.  

# Day 217 Misty Mornings = My Autumn Delight

This was the scene from our bedroom window at 8.30 in the morning today as we were heading out for the school run. 

# Day 216 The Big Friendly Read

September 13th is Roald Dahl's birthday. This year it is extra special, as it marks 100 years since Dahl was born! All summer long, libraries all over the UK have been celebrating Dahl and "his swizzfiggling storytelling" with The Big Friendly Read. As a parent, I was really excited and happy about the idea. So, it certainly deserves a mention in the blog as one of this year's highlights. This picture is from our local library, all set up for the Mayor to come in and give prizes away to the successful readers. 

# Day 215 Illumination Pink

I had no idea what this flower was called, but this is my all time favourite colour. For lack of a better term, I used to call it "onion pink", and had often thought of renaming it in my head as dawn pink. A friend visiting us told me that the flower was called Illumination Pink Foxglove. I loved the description of that colour; it is so befitting!  

# Day 214 All you need is love...

...but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. 

~ Charles M. Schulz

# Day 213 Preparations for a Puja

# 212 In life there should always be time for tea and cake

# 211 The Bridge

# Day 210 Flowers, with love!

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

# Day 209 Bird's eye view of Muscat