1 I fed a tired and possibly cold, bee some sugar syrup this morning and we were very relieved to see it fly away later on. Look carefully and you can see it drinking from the spoon.
Bee sipping sugar solution
2 A fly settled on the tarpaulin I was working on this morning. I have never seen one like it with its orange patches on the wings and orange tipped feet. I have tried to look it up and would be delighted if someone could identify it for me.
Unidentified fly
Our lovely neighbour’s niece is expecting her first baby any day now and the first size Sally-boots are ready.
Sally-boots
I have mentioned Nepal in my last two posts. I just heard that our Cornish based charity, ShelterBox, is on the ground already and assessing how they can help. They had a deployment of boxes in the area so will be able to provide help quickly. They are a wonderful charity. Look them up here . I am so deeply moved by this tragedy having fallen in love with the place and its people on our visit in 2013. Here is the Durbar Square as we saw it and a photo from ShelterBox.
Durbar Square 2013
Durbar Square after the quake
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In honour of our fellow human beings in Nepal who are suffering in the terrible earthquake, I give you a gallery of ‘motion’ pictures taken when we were lucky enough to visit in October 2013. Beautiful people, beautiful country. My heart goes out to them all. Click on any photo for detail and the caption.
Street food moving from ladle to plate
Trying to catch the motion of the child’s windmill and getting the motion of a scooter as well
Crossing the street
Children swinging. We saw these swings erected all the way on our journey between Kathmandu and Pokhara
Trying to stop the weight of his cart taking him faster down the hill than he would wish
Moving slowly uphill with a heavy load
Elegant motion through the water of the lake at Pokhara
Bike, motor bike and Tuc Tuc on the move
Family on the motorbike, truck and bus
Family on a scooter and young men on a tractor, moving in opposite directions
For others in this week’s Challenge, click https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/motion/ .
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India and Nepal are the most colourful places I’ve ever visited. The women in their beautiful saris, the houses, the buses, the shops and stalls – everything! I took my most colourful clothes with me but I felt quite drab – until I was dressed in a sari!
On the lake at Pokhara
Beautiful shop
Flowers for the festival
Festival shrine in Sarnath
‘ Nice’ bus in Napal
Bookshop in Varanasi
Proud and beautiful Mum in Sarnath
Fruit stall
Colourful house and washing in Nepal
Leaving the Taj Mahal
Colour in Sarnath
Pea stall in Varanasi
Me in a sari
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Lovely challenge this one. My favourite colours are greens and blues but, looking through my collections, I decided that shades of pink and purple would be interesting! I hope you enjoy this selection taken over the last year at home and away. Click on any one for an enlargement.
Beautiful saris in India
Pink flower with dewdrops
Dancing at a Senagalese wedding
At Chitwan, Nepal
Confetti in the street in Barcelona
Winter dawn
In the market, Kathmandu
Bougainvillia in Kathmandu
In the gardens at Khajahuro
Anemones
Grand-baby and Lavatera
Earrings
Rhododendron in Trelissick gardens February 2013
Fuschia in the back garden
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1 These beautiful batik elephants that I bought in Pokhara, Nepal, are over the door in our bathroom so every day I am reminded of that magical holiday.
Elephants from Nepal
2 I have listened over and over again to Claire’s singing of my part in ‘Dance Me To The End Of Love’, singing along with her in an effort to be word (and note) perfect for tomorrow’s gig at The Poly in Falmouth.
3 These are all the sections of the Snowdog which I am painstakingly making. I’ve started sewing up and stuffing but it’s a very fiddly job. When assembled, these pieces will be a beautiful Snowdog!
Snowdog pieces – so many ends to sew in!
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I enjoyed collecting these. Click on any one for an enlargement to see the detail.
Sign at Agra Fort. I love the way it is so positive rather than starting with, Don’t
Do read No 9!
These really were serious speed breakers, as deep as they look
At the Khajahuro Temples
Item no 8 is the one that caught my eye, “provided, of course, that a baby is travelling”
Just liked this one near the ghats
May all sentient beings attain Nibbana
Outside every temple
Please don’t eat inside our temple
Read all the way through this – it’s lovely
The elegance of the sign at Jhansi Station echoes the elegance of the beautiful women here
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The people we met in India and Nepal were all so friendly and many asked if they could take our photos and were happy for me to reciprocate.
At Qtub Minaret
Girls over the suspension bridge who painted my Tika
At the Festival in Orchha
Our rickshaw driver in Kathmandu
Beautiful girl who sold me my Tika paints
Mr Singh in the bookshop
‘Please buy from me!’ We did.
Rowing over Lake Phewa by the Annapurna Mountains
Young mother with her 4 week old baby boy
I had just bought a present for someone at home from this lovely family
Researchers at Qtub Minaret
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1 My favourite birds are back – the Long Tailed Tits who arrived this morning. I love the way they live in families of several generations and they are just such beautiful little birds. They didn’t stay long so this is a photo I found online. Thanks to the photographer.
2 I have made a new Christmas decoration. It’s a clear ball filed with all the bits of wool cut off from all my knitting for the Grand-babies this year. I read about the idea ages ago and have forgotten where it came from but have been saving the trimmed off bits of wool since I started knitting for the Grandchildren some 4 and a1/2 years ago, each year in a different bag so there are now four wooly-bits baubles.
Wooly-bits bauble
3 I fell in love with this tiny tea-pot when in Nepal. I think the colours and the inlay are very beautiful.
Tiny Nepalese tea-pot
PS I sewed some sequins onto T’s hat but they didn’t enhance it one bit so they are all off again and I will post the hat as soon as I can. I can hardly wait to see T’s reaction!
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1 A very heavy mist dropped diamonds on these furry sage leaves.
Diamond drops on sage
2 Beautiful Rhubarb with Ginger Fool as tonight’s dessert.
Rhubarb with Ginger Fools
3 Thought today’s Daily Prompt to be an interesting challenge so I have re-written much of this post so that it contains no three letter words. I have also chosen to change my third item today. I recognise that it is much easier to follow this challenge when one’s post is short! It still makes writers think hard about their choice of words. In Pokhara, Nepal, I bought a beautiful back-pack, embroidered in some of my favourite colours which I plan on using to carry stuff to do with my music lessons, choirs as well as piano then I shall be reminded of my holiday three times every week.
Back-pack from Nepal
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