Theme Day = Yellow Fire Truck

A yellow old fire truck in Pleasant Gap.

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Monday was Mellow Yellow.

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A Moment of Respite from the Summer

People who have been following my blog for some time will know that deep down, I am an adventure-loving person.(if you are new here, you might want to have a look at this post). I adore adventure, as long as it happens to other people and they send me photographs later.

My buddy Bokom and his friends Madhusree, Barnali, Soumi, Debpriya, Dipankar, Arnab, and Frah went all the way to Sandakfu so that I may sit in my office cubicle and drool over these fantastic photographs .I thought it would be good to share them with those of you who are being baked brown by the Indian summer and who cannot do more than hallucinate about sunkissed snowy peaks, ice-cold mountain brooks, and pine trees sparking in a sudden shower.

For your information, Sandakfu, located near the bengal-sikkim border, is the tallest peak in West Bengal. The tiny brook you can see in some pictures is called Srikhola (khola meaning river). Photographs have been taken by Mainak, a.k.a Bokom.

Happy trekking :)

ABC Wed. - "K" = Keys

I'm posting ABC Wed. a little early because I'll be posting theme day tomorrow (April 1st) which is something yellow. I think you're going to like it so don't forget to come back and check it out.

In the meantime ABC Wed. this week is the letter "K" for keys.

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Camera Critters - Spot and Merlin

I don't think I posted this particular photo before of Spot and Merlin. I know I posted pictures of them but not this one. My sisters two horses. Spot's long name is "Spotted Dream Catcher" and Merlin's long name is "Merlin the Magican". Who'd figure? LOL.

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Sky Watch Friday - I-99 Highway

I'm a little late posting Sky Watch Friday. Not much happening with the sky today. It's cloudy and raining here today (Saturday).

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25 Lifelong Friends

There are some topics that are so close to my heart that I don’t write about them for fear of going on and on. But I guess some things are just destined to be. Jennifer tagged me to make a list of 25 writers who have influenced me most. Now I’m a person whose life has been about her books. I was reading before I had learnt to walk. The way I think, the way I live, the way I talk, the way I write, the way I dream, the way I love, have all been shaped by the books that I’ve read.
It’s difficult to limit myself to 25, but I’ve tried, and come up with this list of people whose books I find myself going back to again and again. The list is not in any specific order, except for Marquez, who’ll always come first in any list of mine. And oh, though they’ve influenced me in no small way, I’m saving the Bengali writers for another list, another day.
The following list includes the names of 25 of my favorite writers and those books of theirs that I’ve read and loved. But I’m not writing about why I love them. If you’ve read them, you’ll know. If you haven’t, I just hope that some day in your busy lives you'll find the time to do so. And then you'll know.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – (One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera; Of Love and Other Demons; Chronicles of a Death Foretold; Strange Pilgrims; The General in His Labyrinth)

Milan Kundera – (The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Life is Elsewhere; The Joke; Farewell Waltz)

Ian McEwan – (In Between the Sheets; Amsterdam; Atonement; Saturday)

Arundhati Roy - (The God of Small Things)

Alexander McCall Smith – (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series)

Jhumpa Lahiri – (The Interpreter of Maladies; Namesake; Unaccustomed Earth)

Joseph Heller – (Catch 22, Closing Time)

Helen Fielding – (Bridget Jones’ Diary; The Edge of Reason)

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) – (All the short stories)

Melissa Banks – (The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing; The Wonder Spot)

J.R.R. Tolkiens – (The Lord of the Rings)

Pablo Neruda – (all poems)

Amitav Ghosh – (Hungry Tide; The Glass Palace; The Circle of Reason; Sea of Poppies)

J.K. Rowling – (The Harry Potter series)

Harper Lee – (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Ogden Nash – (All poems)

Alex Hailey – (Roots; Queen)

Franz Kafka – (Metamorphosis and other stories)

John Steinbeck - (The Grapes of Wrath; Travels with Charlie)

J.M. Coetze – (Disgrace)

Arthur Golden – (Memoirs of a Geisha)

Yann Martel – (Life of Pi)

Sue Townsend – (The Adrian Mole series)

Vladimir Nabokov – (Lolita)

Roald Dahl – (All the creepy short stories)

Upamanyu Chatterjee - (English, August)

John Updike - (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest)

I tag:-
Quaint Murmur, because her writing is so beautiful there is no way she’s not a reader.
Happy, because I midwifed his lust for books
Chirpy Paro, because she loves to talk books
Aniket, because I want to know what inspires a man to write so deliciously
Shubhodip, because I know a bibliophile when I see one

ABC Wed. - "J" = Jesus

A Jesus statue by Pleasant Gap, about a 10 min. drive from Bellefonte. They sell stones and statues here for loved ones.

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Just a side note: I had to change my blog back to word verification because someone keeps putting garbage on it Anonymous. So for now, you will have to type in the word verification on comments.