The old telephone rang. (Yes…back then, it was the real thing and the only thing! Today it is one of the many ring tones to choose from on the mobile phones and goes by the name Old Telephone.) I picked…
Glowing knights
While rummaging through my photo collection, I stumbled upon an image that was shot well over a decade ago! When I saw the image, the entire incident flashed through my mind. It was… I was camping out on the outskirts…
Spiders in my garden
Spiders have an uncanny knack of turning up at the most unexpected of places and surprising you. I am not the only one to have experienced this. People have seen spiders on remote mountaintops, on newly formed islands and other…
Quarry behind my house
A little over three decades ago, we moved into a newly constructed house on the outskirts of the city. At that time it was considered to be a location outside of town though there was a fair bit of civilization…
Beauty in diversity – Fungi
They are in the ground, they are on the trees; some are tiny, some large; some are soft while others are hard; some look like corals while some resemble clubs; some are dully coloured while some are brightly coloured; some…