#Weeklyphotochallenge - Best Places of Interest

March 16, 2016 Weekly photo challenge

One Love

Love is all around me

And so the feeling grows

It’s written on the wind

It’s everywhere I go

one love of the skydiving team — skydiving team in a formation

The skydiving team in a formation depicts one love. I had for a long time been thinking on one love and I came across this beautiful song by Bob Marley.

One Love! One Heart!
Let’s get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin’ (One Love!);
Hear the children cryin’ (One Heart!),
Sayin’: give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Sayin’: let’s get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love!);
There is one question I’d really love to ask (One Heart!):
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner,
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?

One Love! What about the one heart? One Heart!
What about – ? Let’s get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One Love!);
So shall it be in the end (One Heart!),
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let’s get together and feel all right.
One more thing!

Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armagiddyon (One Love!),
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One Song!).
Have pity on those whose chances grows t’inner;
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

Sayin’: One Love! What about the One Heart? (One Heart!)
What about the -? Let’s get together and feel all right.
I’m pleadin’ to mankind! (One Love!);
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let’s get together and feel all right.
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let’s get together and feel all right.

~ Bob Marley

The above song on One Love is dedicated to all.

March 8, 2016 Weekly photo challenge

Harmony

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Harmony Photo courtesy-skymet) — Autumn in Kashmir

Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells

~ John Keats

Nature is a painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. ~ John Ruskin

Harmony ARJNH6 (Image source) — Oriolus oriolus Golden oriole male sitting on a twig

A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period —
When March is scarcely here

A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.

It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.

Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay —

A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.

~ Emily Dickinson

If humanity learns to live in harmony with nature, we will enter an age of music unlike any this planet has ever heard before.

*/This post is inspired by Weekly Photo challenge Harmony. /*

February 22, 2016 Weekly photo challenge

Seasons in India

India has five seasons : Spring season (Sanskrit : vasanta), summer (grisma), monsoon season (varsa), autumn(sarada) and winter (hemanta)

Yet, the current climatic situation in the country has 3 main seasons, that is summer season, the rainy season and the winter season.

Spring in India which is from Mid-February to April represents happiness and joy. The sweet scent of flowers that fill up your mind and gorgeous colors make you smile.

Tulips in Bloom, Srinagar (Photo Courtesy – Gowhar Butt)

Summer is the time to escape to beautiful and alluring hill stations in India with an amazingly pleasant weather. It lasts from April to July.

Monsoons in India are from July to September. The smell of the wet earth fills one’s soul and mind. The peacocks dance in the rain. Monsoon is magical.

Autumn is the time for celebration and festivity (September to Mid-November).

Autumn in Kashmir (Photo courtesy-skymet) — Autumn in Kashmir
(Photo courtesy-sky met)

Winters are an ideal time to visit India as it offers cool, pleasant and comfortable weather to relax and travel. The season commences from November and prevails till February.

This is one season that will never fail to charm you. Winter is my favorite season. Do let me know which is your favorite season, in the comments section below.

*/This post is inspired by this week’s photo challenge on Seasons. /*

February 15, 2016 Weekly photo challenge

Life Imitates Art

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

An Indian statesman who was the 10th Prime Minister of India. The President of India conferred Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour to Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his residence on 27 March 2015

Dr. Ambedkar an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer. He was India’s first law minister and architect of the Indian constitution

A philosopher, an artist, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature and is popularly known as Gurudev. His major works include Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World); and many other literary and art works.

Posing next to Kapil Dev, former player of the Indian Cricket team

A former Indian cricketer, who captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Don’t you think they are real celebrities? Well, I felt the same when I stood next to them. They are made of wax and this is at the Celebrity Wax Museum.