Week 18 of Year 2012 in pictures

I have been taking a few days off from my job.

And what have I been doing all this time?

Enjoying a weekend outing and clicking lots of pictures.

Enough to cover all the pending prompts from last week or rather April, I should say.

Two of the pictures have been clicked by my father.

He is very good at clicking the pictures.

I can only marvel when he handles the camera.

So, back to sharing the photographs

22nd April, 2012 : The last thing that you bought

I have been improving my professional wardrobe with kurtis.

That I have not been able to wear them yet is another story.

I had actually purchased three - the third one is black.

23rd April, 2012 : Vegetable

Tomatoes - what better than these to cover the prompt

My original idea was to do something cooked.

But I was stacking up refrigerator with some things when I saw these

and these looked so tempting and delicious.

Some of them demand an early attention

and I am always ready for tomatoes ... tomato soup, tomato in veggies.

24th April, 2012 : Something you're grateful for

One word answer for this one - 

Life is full of countless blessings.

So, I am most grateful for being able to live the life that I have.

Ups and downs, smiles and  tears - all being a part and parcel of this living.

Beautiful and wonderful.

25th April, 2012 : Looking Down

We were on a short but enjoyable pilgrimage this weekend.

Looking down from the third floor

of the place where we stayed put for a few nights,

I found pigeons huddled together.

There were pigeons every where around us

and it was fun watching their antics.

The recess was out of reach of the cleaners and therefore, the mess.

All the time, I had been wondering about the results of this photograph

but I think, it is tolerable on the whole.

26th April, 2012 : Black + White

"I bow to thee, Mother" ("Vande Mataram")

This flame burns day and night and reminds us all

of the sacrifices that earned us our independence.

Amar Jawan Jyoti @ Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar

27th April, 2012 : Somewhere you went

This weekend I was off to Amritsar Sahib - me, my family and my sister's family.

We visited The Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh, Gurudwara Shaheedan Sahib.

We also visited another place Naushehra Sahib, 

which is one of the religious seat for our community too.

A satisfying trip altogether.

(Photograph clicked by my father)

28th April, 2012 : 1 PM

1 PM is usually the time I help mum with some chores

like getting the laundry downstairs from the terrace.

I am, generally, not much help when I am at home.

So, I find simple tasks that are within my reach.

Hanging the clothes for drying and folding the dried laundry

are some of the tasks that I participate mostly in.

29th April, 2012 : Circle

Circle reminds me of just one thing - the dartboard in my room.

We bought it with great hopes of improving concentration

but a few tries left lots of marks on the walls

and little on the board

and now, it is no more than a showpiece on the wall.

But I love it and am not willing to trade its place with anything else.

30th April, 2012 : Something that makes you sad

Back to Jallianwala Bagh - the bullet marks on the wall

definitely leave one sad.

They speak loudly and silently about what happened on that fateful day.

They speak of the pain, the bloodshed and they speak of the tears

My father clicked this one for us.

The challenge for April is done.

May begins tomorrow. New set of prompts.

New share of pictures.

Stay blessed always.

P.S. I am glad I did these prompts with Canon and Sony

rather than my mobile.

Anyways, the mobile camera application needs some fixing and patching.