Monday, April 15, 2013

The Three (adorable) Elders of Akola

Indu-foi with book and my winter topi

Kanu-kaka with the Indian flag

Ansu-foi in embroidery-mode

Sunday, January 13, 2013

in her element


after a long year of fighting cancer and losing enough weight to make her compete with me on the thinness quotient, she is as energetic as ever. she wanted to push dad's wheelchair at the bird sanctuary even though devabhai and i were there to do that. we had to literally shoo her off from such pursuits.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

the bird watchers... and the birds

the bird watchers

and the birds


five greylag goose and one northern pintail


dad trying to close his right eye (from which he can barely see due to glaucoma) and peer through the binoculars


indian pond heron


darter

cormorants (no, the cormorants are not religious - the cross is there to mark the water levels in the lake)

ma, dad and the ever-enthusiastic devabhai (my parents' driver and all-round handyman / trouble-shooter, and without whom this little excursion wouldn't have been possible)

as we returned home...