From tending the nursery rice paddies shown here in the background….
…to the thick, verdant harvest…
….its back-breaking work.
I loved meeting with this friendly Nepalese family and the lush, dense paddies outside of Kathmandu.
Happy Memories!
For this week’s Photo Challenge, Dense: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/dense/
Florida’s Keys have great lizards and most of them are green, camouflaging into the equally impressive flora. Here’s a few we spotted hiding in plain sight:
Just for contrast, here is a truly impressive orange one that was just hanging out on the tree above my head….until I finally spotted him!
In response to this week’s photo challenge: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/it-is-easy-being-green/
For some unknown reason (as I can’t read Nepali) a Nepali bank had strung a banner to a tree at the famous Pashnupathi temple. The monkeys loved it!
They used it as a hammock, a swing, and as a launching pad to jump down on other unsuspecting monkeys who were hanging around for the fun.
I guess you say they were making a monkey out of banks!
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In response to this week’s challenge: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/atop/
Buddhists offer light as a way to dispel the darkness of ignorance and as a wish that their light gives rise to clarity and wisdom. They are also an aspiration towards the development of greater mental clarity and a path to happiness and knowing.
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Its been a while since I did a WordPress Photo Challenge and I’ve missed them! Here’s a few of my favourite nature camouflage pictures:
If you are feeling crabby, hiding might be the best bet…
So…did you spot him?
Well camouflaged moth with his more visible buddy. (I actually spotted the big one because of the little one.) Be careful who you hang out with!
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A tough photo challenge this week for me. I was kind of stuck until my son reminded me of this wonderful photo that was taken when he was 14. The lighthouse peninsular on Spetses hosts about a dozen metal sculptures hidden among the pines trees or out on the rocks. Interacting with the art is a given. You want to pose with the mermaid or crawl on top of the chain mail sheep. Here’s my entry this week:
And a few more just to show off the uniqueness of the place:
I considered lots of approaches for this week’s challenge: clocks, ancient places, ancient faces, timeless graces… but I think I like the idea of the passage of time the most. Every year Latham and I take a picture for his birthday at the gate of our Greek home. Here is the passage of time over twenty years. Time indeed waits for no one. And what a story it tells!:
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is on the subject of weightlessness. It brought to mind these amazing flying and twirling breakdancers from our Palpa Roadshow last year:
And a second nod to the wonder of birds. Circling birds of prey in the Himalayan foothills:
Happy New Year! Breaking a long respite from the weekly photo challenge with this week’s theme of circles:
An oldie but goodie from the now earthquake-destroyed pottery square in Bhaktapur
Pumpkins in storage at a Chitwan farm
The inside of a night blooming cactus flower
Decorative mandalas at Tihar
The inside of a hollow tree
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