Bird in a cage

Oh nooo!!! It's been over a week since I last blogged. Real life is taking over my blog life. ;) I've hardly taken any pictures since I got home. I feel like I've been running around from job to job, makin' some green, and thinking about other ways to make it. I spent part of the weekend printing, cutting, and mounting about 50 photos onto handmade cards, in hopes of selling them. They look pretty good, if I do say so myself.

Weather update: rain, rain, and more rain. BUT it's supposed to be gorgeous this weekend. Woohoo!

Fruit!

Yesterday I went to the Maine Squeeze Juice Café for a smoothie fix - mango, coconut, blackberry, and cider. Mmm... how I love my fruit. I made one at home today as well. I got to talking with someone at a party last night and he was about to embark on a trip to Thailand to study Theravada Buddhism, and anytime I talk about Thailand I always talk about the food, especially the fruit. Nothing like it in the world.


Star fruit.

Another fave

I've gone through and flagged all of my favorite images from my trip. This is one of them. It's from the puja in Varanasi, way back at the beginning of the whole adventure. I'm hoping to print some of my images on blank greeting cards and sell them in shops locally, and maybe online. Hmmm... one of many ideas floating around in my head.



The weather here has been gorgeous the past couple days. Yay! And I've actually been running here and there. I'm a big fan of the walk-run-walk-run method. That way you get a good workout but you don't feel like you're dying by the end. I guess I've just never run enough to experience that "runner's high" that people talk about. And to be honest, I'm not particularly motivated to get to that point. As long as I'm in decent shape and doing something good for my heart, that's enough for me. I had contemplated running a 5K with my friend, but I think I've decided against that. I'm just not really that competitive, even with myself. That's true for me with yoga as well. When I started 7 years ago I was determined to eventually be able to do all of the "hard" poses, but I've gotten over that. That's not what it's about at all. It would be nearly impossible to describe what it is about, because I think it's different for everyone. Suffice it to say that balance plays a big part, and I don't mean the kind where you can stand on one foot and contort the rest of your body into something resembling an eagle. More like the kind that applies to life in general.

Memory lane

I just imported all of my photos, over 3,000 of them, into my Mac. It was an interesting experience to watch them flip through a couple seconds at a time, like reliving my trip in a matter of minutes, and remembering how I was feeling at the time.

They look so much different, and in some cases better, on my Mac than they did on my HP Mini. I guess it's because of the bigger screen and the better resolution. Some photos that looked in focus on the HP are clearly not on the Mac. I've been flagging the ones I like best, some of which I hope to sell in the form of greeting cards, and the one below jumped out at me for some reason. I think the contrast could be better, but I like the composition. Unfortunately I only shot in JPEG and not RAW, but honestly I didn't want to take up all that space with RAW files. Maybe next time. I've also been scoping out Craigslist looking for better Nikon DSLR models because I've totally outgrown the D40. I also dream of a luscious telephoto lens. We shall see. I am only working part-time, after all!! Maybe these things will fall off a delivery truck that I happen to be driving behind. ;)


Food prep at the Sikh temple in Delhi.