..of hills and haze.....

Aren't mornings precious these days!!!!! And PA is beautiful, no matter what road I take in which season....... :)

Marched into spring!

It's such a beautiful time of the year :)

Gone Fishin' !

I may have seem to gone underground (if not fishing):D but honestly I am not giving up on this blog..not yet. Life's such a whirlwind of activity right now that blogging has taken a backseat....but not for long, I promise. Meanwhile, hope spring's beginning to show colors in your corners of the world.. It definitely has sprung here :)

Meet my Valentine.... :)

The shy li'l girl I happened to fall in love with, less than a year ago, is now in her own words my "new best friend". Isn't she precious! :)

Auld Lang Syne......

Warmest wishes to all of us for a new year filled with hope, happiness, love, and peace :)

It may be......

......cold outside, but I do have warm corners within... :D Hope you have a happy holiday season. Stay warm, even if you are in tropical Chennai or Singapore :DD

The light that warms up my home (almost) every morning.... And the light that glows inside (almost) every evening :)

Old Man Winter....

.......came knocking while I have been away from blogging (not 'cuz I wanted to but 'cuz my hard drive crashed :((( and that means all the images from the last 2 years are gone too.......No, despite the common wisdom, I haven't backed up most of my files in 2 years now :(( I am still in the process of recovering the images.....and I am hopeful that I won't lose all of them). Meanwhile, here are some of the newest images!
Waning December-afternoon light

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here ;DDD

Magical mornings.......

Much to my husband's annoyance, I am a total morning person (if I could be dragged out of our cozy bed)....it's hard not to be, when you wake up to mornings as beautiful as these :)

"She loves blood red poppies......"

I know summer has been long gone but I just felt like sharing these images of one of my favorite flowers before I lose them amidst thousands of images on my hard disk! Aren't poppies simply spectacular??? :)
"Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flush'd print in a poppy there;
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puff'd it to flapping flame."-Francis Thompson

"The poppy opens her scarlet purse of dreams. "

Celebrating fall ....

...in Pocono mountains. Lehigh Valley, PA to be precise.

October painted in pink........

I am well aware of my silence on my blogs.....have been busy cherishing every moment with some of the dearest and closest of the family visiting us from India. I hope to be back to regular blogging soon....
The glass sculpture above is from Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY.
Don't be misled by the images below...we have had our fair share of "freaky" weather, just like everyone else...these were shot well before the snow came along in mid-Oct!!!!!!!

And yes, I am a shoes-person.....well, who isn't ;DDD

It's "that" time of the year again......

...my fav. part of the year!!!! :)

An "August" view :)

A farm scene from Lancaster, PA.

The scene this morning from my porch.....

And finally , the reason to love August......goldenrod and queen anne's lace putting a cheery show, blanketing hills in their yellow and white...... Update: For those who are intrigued by the flower in the last shot, it's a yet-to-bloom Queen Anne's Lace......isn't it beautiful how this thing unfurls into a regular Queen Anne Lace.

Happy Faces.......

......from my town. Their sunny attitude is contagious!

The girl with the dark curls :)

Remember my friend? Every chance that I get to spend with her brings smiles in my life....can you blame me for loving her so?? :)

Spinfluence

I took a well-deserved summer-break (all my breaks, if you go by my claims, are "well-deserved" :D) from work last week to spend some "us" time with my husband. We went tripping a li'l to the north and a li'l to the south and everywhere else in between :) And now I can't get myself back to what I call the "weekday-discipline". Here's a (an???) hastily-edited (read amateurish) image of one of the storefronts that caught my fancy, on one of the trips. The store called Spinfluence, custom frames old record albums to preserve them for times to come! Hope to "get my groove back" soon and eventually return to regular blogging! :)

A gilt trip to work :)

These days no matter how early I wake up, there's always light outside.....and by the time I am done with wiping sleep from my eyes, and that mug of coffee finally kicking in... the sun outside is just beginning to bathe all that's beautiful on my way to work, in its shimmering pool. This is my favorite part of the day till it's time for sun to set when I am out with my camera again. So no matter how rushed I am in mornings, I still leave with my camera, hoping I will get a chance to stop and click, and if I do get lucky, it sets the tone for the day....a VERY MERRY tone :) These are from yesterday's "trip" to work :)

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” – Iris Murdoch

Bar-red! Sunny side up! One last look...

To happy (July) beginnings :)

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests." .........Pablo Neruda

I may not have grown up in this beautiful valley that I call home now but locals who did, am certain will find a resonating sentiment in Neruda's words.......:) We woke up this morning to find the fog roll in the valley to greet us. It instantly brought back memories of the precious few days we spent in Northwest (remember the move that never happened!!!). I still remember how the ubiquitous fog would fade away oh-so-briefly to offer a glimpse of the houses, the woods, the road ahead and then return even before we could realize that those weren't the figments of our imagination. What a tease! :)

Daddy's little girl! :)

....I still am one and will always be, no matter how old I grow, how far I go. Love you, papa.

Remember my little friend from the breakfast event that I was a part of not long ago....I am meeting her tomorrow and intend to surprise her with a print of this collage I created for her for the Father's day. Do you think she will like it? I am keeping my fingers crossed!

Update: I gave the collage and earned a hug from the dad (with a joke, "You managed to get my best side" ;D) and a shy "Thank you" from her. Here's the smile she gave me (as you can see, she loves her "treats".....if it's not a muffin, it's a do'nut or a candy). And just one last thing before you do away with me for sounding like a gushing "Julie-Andrews-on-Ecstasy".....don't you just love her dark curls :)))