Geodesics to Galaxies

Hard At Work

2010-01-03T21:04:00.001+05:30

For me the diamond dawns are set
In rings of beauty,
And all my ways are dewy wet
With pleasant duty.

~John Townsend Trowbridge

A New Beginning Together

2010-01-02T12:03:00.001+05:30

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

~Thomas Hood

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Dig into the water

2009-04-26T18:30:00.001+05:30

I have no pithy sayings for this!! :)

A Touch Of Love

2009-02-14T10:24:00.001+05:30

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton

Prayers

2009-02-14T09:56:00.001+05:30

Playtime

2009-01-27T22:41:00.001+05:30

I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.

~Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"

New Beginnings in the New World

2009-01-20T22:52:00.001+05:30

Congratulations to Americans on their newest President. Wish them all the best!

I am actually jealous...if only we had one Indian politician so young and so charismatic.

Kudos to the man for managing to win over a people so diverse and so outspoken!

Here's to new beginnings

2009-01-11T15:11:00.001+05:30

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.

~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Brilliant Blues

2008-06-04T17:50:00.001+05:30

'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!

~William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798

Blazing Skies

2008-04-02T08:53:00.002+05:30

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

- Rabindranath Tagore

Trees

2007-12-19T09:15:00.001+05:30

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

~Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914

Places

2007-11-10T20:27:00.001+05:30

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.

~Katherine Mansfield

Sunset

2007-10-21T20:49:00.001+05:30

Taken at Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Check it out on Google Maps.

Reflections

2007-10-21T20:46:00.001+05:30

"We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."

~Taoist proverb

Light

2007-10-12T07:51:00.001+05:30

Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?

~Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton

A piece of the sky

2007-09-03T10:50:00.001+05:30

The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witching of the soft blue sky!

- William Wordsworth, Peter Bell

Serenity

2007-08-19T04:28:00.001+05:30

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

~Marcus Aurelius

Dream on

2007-07-15T19:27:00.001+05:30

"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

A thing of beauty

2007-06-07T10:59:00.001+05:30

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,
Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
All lovely tales that we have heard or read:
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

~John Keats, Endymion

Clouds

2007-05-29T10:37:00.001+05:30

Cloud-walls of the morning's gray
Faced with amber column,
Crowned with crimson cupola
From a sunset solemn.
May-mists, for the casements, fetch,
Pale and glimmering,
With a sunbeam hid in each,
And a smell of spring.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Summer

2007-05-28T18:45:00.001+05:30

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

Little Flower

2007-02-14T09:31:00.001+05:30

Little flower -- but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

~Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Flower in the crannied wall"

Choices

2007-01-29T10:25:00.001+05:30

"O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other."

~Thomas Carlyle
The French Revolution, vol. I, book II, chapter 1

Little Kingdoms

2007-01-18T18:24:00.001+05:30

“Away from the world and its toils and its cares,
I've a snug little kingdom up four pair of stairs.”

-William Makepeace Thackeray

Point of View

2006-12-12T07:46:00.000+05:30

Set out from any point. They are all alike.
They all lead to a point of departure.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943

I got tagged...

2006-11-25T07:33:00.000+05:30

This post has been a very long time in coming...
I recently got tagged by Mridula. (Mridula, I apologize...been just horribly busy).
Anyway, here are 8 things about me per rules of the tag:

1. I am crazy about photography! Nothing else drives me more.
2. Travelling and hiking are a couple of my favourite pastimes
3. I find wide, expansive landscapes enthralling.
4. I think black and white photos are fascinating.
5. I enjoy Jazz and Hindustani Instrumental on one end and Psychedelic Rock on the other end. Talk about extremes!!
6. Best poet for quotes: Robert Frost - yup, really.
7. Delhi and Chicago - my favourite places.
8. I'm having a hard time trying to figure what to put here!

There you go. All done. Kaam khatam paisa hajam :)

Night

2006-10-02T09:50:00.000+05:30

Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!

~Lord Byron, Childe Harold

Dreamy

2006-09-14T09:20:00.000+05:30

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

~Steven Wright

Nostalgia

2006-09-14T08:53:00.000+05:30

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.

~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"

Somehow this photo got me all nostalgic about my childhood...

For Once, Then, Something

2006-07-23T03:32:00.000+05:30

Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths--and then I lost it.

-Robert Frost

Sunrise

2006-07-11T11:18:00.000+05:30

I am back!

Hibernating for now

2006-06-10T17:26:00.000+05:30

I'll wake up soon!

Spring Colors

2006-04-24T05:22:00.000+05:30

The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.

~Julian Grenfell

It's spring folks! Have a great time!

Droplet

2006-03-22T10:32:00.000+05:30

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

- Kahlil Gibran

Picturesque

2006-03-20T08:50:00.000+05:30

That's not my home but it sure reminds me of home...

Thought

2006-03-05T08:38:00.000+05:30

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

- Buddha

Light in Water

2006-02-19T07:10:00.000+05:30

I admit. It's a boring picture. I couldn't find anything else interesting enough to photograph.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time.
Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

~Charlotte Whitton

Truck over cars

2006-02-08T18:49:00.000+05:30

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog??

Perspective

2006-01-24T10:16:00.000+05:30

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

Fall

2006-01-18T11:33:00.000+05:30

Leaves Of Gold

Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.

~Emily Dickinson

Well, the winter has been more like fall this year!

Lone Ranger

2006-01-18T10:50:00.000+05:30

Lone Ranger

Standing Guard?

2006-01-02T11:31:00.000+05:30

Too many heads on the block?

Happy New Year

2005-12-30T09:07:00.000+05:30

Ice

2005-12-10T23:48:00.000+05:30

Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

- Robert Frost

2005-12-07T08:17:00.000+05:30

Caught in between?

Light

2005-11-30T10:30:00.000+05:30

The principal person in a picture is light.
- Manet

2005-11-27T10:09:00.000+05:30

Yellow!

2005-11-22T07:36:00.000+05:30

Another view of the Atlantic!

2005-11-15T09:28:00.000+05:30

Giant Fluff!

2005-11-13T08:30:00.000+05:30

A view of the Atlantic!

Last Stop

2005-11-13T06:23:00.000+05:30

This is where you get down!

Courtesy : The Street Sign Generator

2005-10-28T08:30:00.000+05:30

Flames of the forest

2005-10-28T08:29:00.000+05:30

"Will you walk into my parlour?", said the Spider to the Fly

2005-10-24T06:21:00.000+05:30

Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day.
~Rubaiyat of Rumi

2005-10-20T08:17:00.000+05:30

Visions of Steel!

2005-10-18T06:57:00.000+05:30

Aflame!

Blur

2005-10-12T07:53:00.000+05:30

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable...."

~ T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Rays of Light

2005-10-06T10:16:00.000+05:30

A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant," 1820

2005-10-04T08:00:00.000+05:30

Divine!

Eternal

2005-09-27T07:10:00.000+05:30

For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now;
the present is the only thing that has no end.

- Erwin Schrodinger

What is real?

2005-09-21T09:42:00.000+05:30

What is real? How do you define real? If you are talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

- Morpheus (The Matrix , 1999)

Mongols Hoard Boards?

2005-09-18T09:01:00.000+05:30

How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?

-- Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes fame)

2005-09-14T06:30:00.000+05:30

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Massive

2005-09-11T06:02:00.000+05:30

Massive as a Roc!

Order

2005-09-08T04:57:00.000+05:30

Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where tho' all things differ, all agree.

Alexander Pope

Man

2005-09-07T07:04:00.000+05:30

"His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, this was a man"

Julius Caesar, Act v, Sc.5

2005-09-02T10:27:00.000+05:30

Through night vision goggles?

2005-08-30T08:45:00.000+05:30

It's all a matter of focus!

Electric Sky

2005-08-21T07:51:00.000+05:30

Beneath an Electric Sky...

2005-08-17T07:13:00.000+05:30

Come to me, darling! I am ze love of your life...

2005-08-11T09:35:00.000+05:30

Spires to Heaven

2005-08-09T09:13:00.000+05:30

Reflections of Chicago!

O! for a horse with wings

2005-08-09T09:03:00.000+05:30

"Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
-Robert Browning

2005-08-05T08:19:00.000+05:30

Ah road! Whither dost thou lead me?

My inspiration for the day

2005-06-07T09:44:00.000+05:30

You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power.

Swami Vivekananda

2005-05-27T09:19:00.000+05:30

Fly away!

2005-05-27T09:18:00.000+05:30

Gold!

2005-05-15T10:59:00.000+05:30

Cotton in the sky!

2005-05-09T09:58:00.000+05:30

Minas Morgul and Minas Tirith?

2005-05-09T09:51:00.000+05:30

Another sunset!

2005-05-03T07:15:00.000+05:30

Looking out to the sea...

2005-04-29T08:43:00.000+05:30

Sunlight on Island!

2005-04-28T10:46:00.000+05:30

Heavens Aglow!

2005-04-18T03:05:00.000+05:30

I believe that people interpret expressions based on how he or she is feeling at that time.

Tell me what you think.

And to a very dear friend, that's proof : those are brown eyes! :)

Friends

2005-03-29T05:43:00.000+05:30

I got these quotes in my email and just had to post them:

It's the friends you can call up at 4 A. M. that matter.

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

What wouldn't I give for friends like that!!

2005-03-27T10:50:00.000+05:30

Loaded with snow!!

2005-02-22T07:21:00.000+05:30

A snow covered bush near my home! Reminds one of icing on cakes...

2005-02-19T08:58:00.000+05:30

An Amazing Sunset!

Alone

2005-02-03T10:19:00.000+05:30

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were- I have not seen
As others saw- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring-From the same source
I have not taken
My sorrow- I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone-
And all I lov'd- I lov'd alone

Stanza from "Alone" - Edgar Allan Poe

2005-01-30T08:45:00.000+05:30

Water droplets in a weird pattern on my window!

2005-01-28T09:27:00.000+05:30

Reaching out to the skies!

2005-01-25T09:59:00.000+05:30

A snowy scene can be therapeutic!

An intelligent man

2005-01-20T09:39:00.000+05:30

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that

G H Hardy (1877-1947) British Mathematician

Great place for a Stop sign!

2005-01-20T08:24:00.000+05:30

Stop and enjoy the view!

2005-01-09T18:24:00.000+05:30

I met a very famous Lady!

Ravages of weather?

2004-12-20T10:05:00.001+05:30

My apartment in Winter (After)

My apartment in fall (Before)

2004-12-11T13:28:00.000+05:30

Great Heavens

Blue Skies, Brown Trees

2004-12-04T13:47:00.000+05:30

My favorite theme! This is the kind I love photographing!

Place: Shenandoah National Park, Washington DC

2004-12-04T12:33:00.000+05:30

OK This is the whole picture of what I posted last time...It's an engine! :)

2004-11-30T10:23:00.000+05:30

Bet you cant guess this one at all!