February 2009 ~ Travel In Home

On the street where I live-Chennai

A beautiful Wesley Church lies a few houses away from my house, a part of which faces the Poonamallee High Road . It was just another monument until a few days a[...]

by Jour ~ Saturday, February 28, 2009 0 comments

A landmark of Chennai

Vamsee had tagged me a while ago and the rules were fairly simple. I had to select the 6th picture in my 6th folder and write the story of the picture. To begin with, Ive altered the rules a bit here. Its the 6th picture alright, but its from my latest folder - the Chennai photowalk[...]

by Jour ~ Friday, February 27, 2009 0 comments

Back in Bangalore -

Travelling is often passing one milestone and moving on to the next. I am now back in Bangalore and lazing around in the summer heat.My thoughts however go back to the photowalk in Chennai last Sunday.I walked up to the milestone(in the previous post) to take a picture of it from the[...]

by Jour ~ Thursday, February 26, 2009 0 comments

At home in Chennai

A friend seeing my status on Facebook asked me "What, you are on a jaunt again ? " I relied saying " Home ." The status said that I was heading to Chennai aka Madras . His prompt reply was "I thought Bangalore was home." I was planning to reply - " Bangalore is where I live, but Chennai[...]

by Jour ~ Sunday, February 22, 2009 0 comments

Back from Bheemeshwari and its a fishy tale again..

The 40 kms stretch of the Cauvery in Karnataka is home to Mahseer, one of the most famous sport fish loved by anglers all over the world."Angling is all about a game of wits between the fish and the angler and the mahseer, 100 pounds and more gives a real fight ..."I made an unplanned[...]

by Jour ~ Tuesday, February 17, 2009 0 comments

Happy Birthday, Oregon!

Today is the 150th birthday of my beautiful native state of Oregon - it became the 33rd U.S. state on February 14, 1859.Being away from Oregon for three years has given me an even greater appreciation for it, and I pledge to do it more photographic justice come spring!That's our state flag at the top, featuring a sunset on the Pacific[...]

by Jour ~ Saturday, February 14, 2009 0 comments

Fishing Tales -Inside Story

“ Can you see that light, madam ? It has seven bulbs.” Balu points across the vast expanse of waters to a long horizontal contraption with outstretched rods. ”That’s a Cheena vala,” he says, referring to the Malayalam word for the Chinese fishing net believed to be brought into Kerala[...]

by Jour ~ Wednesday, February 11, 2009 0 comments

Kollam beach

I went to Kollam (Quilon near Trivandrum, Kerala )beach in the afternoon-obviously not the right time to be there. However the endless stretch of sands caught my attention with the striking contrast of colours..difficult to pick my fav pic as I took quite a few with two different[...]

by Jour ~ Tuesday, February 10, 2009 0 comments

Ayurveda@Ashtamudi

The breeze had just set in clearing the overcast clouds .The coconut trees gently swayed ,touching the backwaters which lashed against them. I stand at the edge of this wide shore and take in the scene , as Dr. Ratheesh joins me , exclaimining.“ This could not have been done by a human..[...]

by Jour ~ Friday, February 6, 2009 0 comments

Much water has indeed flowed...

"Have you put it on the blog ?" My dad asked me last week when he was shifted to the ward after spending almost six days in the CCU at Apollo Hospitals .I smiled in relief, telling him that I had no time for the blog, but had send twitter updates from my mobile phone .I had no net access[...]

by Jour ~ Monday, February 2, 2009 0 comments