May the moments of waiting, bring the results deserved!

Once

Once an encouragement
An opportunity to evolve

At times an exaltation
To change and resolve

Once a route of caution
Taken mostly by surprise

Learnings aplenty
Of advice and reprise

Once in a way a challenge
To pursue and stay put

Dwell upon the outcome
Directing the path to choose

Considering once and thence
If nothing left but stalemate

Make the move now
For it is time to deviate

People, Faces, Emotion

Pictures for the week

For most part of our lives, we seem to focus on goals and ambitions, that we miss out on small joys. I'd like to call the below picture 'speeding past the obvious'. The present is rushing past history. Waited a long time, but couldn't get a shot without vehicles. With the headlight of the vehicles came the difficulty with getting a clear shot, but I still like this effect.

Beauty in emptiness. One of the rooms in the Amer Fort in Jaipur. White marble walls with colourful stone and mirror designs.
The Hawa Mahal (The palace of winds) in Jaipur - This is said to have been built for the royal women to view daily life of the city-dwellers. This is right in the middle of the city marketplace like area, where you cannot even stop to taken a photo.
Who is to say, what lies behind these closed doors?
It is up to us to take the courage and move in the direction that we know is right.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Peacock design made with semi-precious stones @ the Udaipur city palace. Taken from an angle as it is behind a glass sheet and a straight shot would have given rise to unnecessary reflections.

Grandiose of Rajasthan

Rajasthan had been on my to-visit list for a very long time. Finally got a chance to so a 10 day trip to Jaipur-Udaipur-Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Incredibly hot but amazingly beautiful. Some pictures here... rest soon.

The city palace - Udaipur

Perfect for an evening walk. There's a garden outside
Ancient pieces like this are strewn all over the place
Wouldn't we all love a balcony like this
Ranakpur Jain temple Has over 1400 unique pillars - all in marble.
Jodhpur - Also called the Blue city. Looking down from the fort, you will see houses of the Brahmans in blue
A local guard watching (or posing?)
A family that makes its living by singing and dancing
A camel reaching out to munch
Sand dunes of the Thar desert
Smile please - My name is Michael :)
A gypsy dance
Watching the peaceful sunset
Love the setting sun. One can choose to spend the night in the white tents, after experiencing hours of traditional music/dance and food
Cute or what :)
An intricately carved balcony wall
Silver ware
Meenakari work
The bazaar - rugs, carpets, shawls on display

Random thoughts

The music plays on, though the lights fade out
The thoughts continue their rounds, in the mind's layout

A pattern I see forming, as I stare in the dark
Listening to the rhythm, I know I'm way off mark

Is it a yearning for something out of reach
Is it the impossible, that I beseech

What is, is not at our will to change
But what if, it was something that we could rearrange

Would it bring to light, that submerged spark
Would it bring closer, those scattered afar

If nothing's impossible, just as I'm told
Tightly fixated in this direction, the rudder I will hold

Random pictures

Pictures from the flower market this morning.
Owing to the wedding season and auspicious dates floating around, you have to get there early or you will not get what you are looking for... Not that you know for sure what you're looking for :D because every flower arrangement looks so beautiful. Was a little bit disappointed though that there weren't any Dahlias/Carnations :(
Heaps and heaps of flowers... so many colours, so many sizes. Such a happy sight :)