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A very happy new year to all! Dec 25th to 30th 2009. A lovely visit to Simla/Sidhora/Mashobra, yet again. Long walks through the pine forests. Freezing cold during the early mornings, but just great regardless. Lovely skies in the mornings and evenings.                           Click the thumbnails for the full photo. [...]

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Fall in Simla

Beautiful time of the year in Simla with the colors turning. 4 days of bliss! Click HERE for few assorted images in a slide-show. If you cannot view the FLASH slide-show, try THIS LINK for a basic-view gallery. [The last image in the series, the snow-capped Himalayan Range was taken from the 'plane between Chandigarh and Delhi.] [...]

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Surprised to see that a photograph taken by me in May 2007 of the Main Building of Bishop Cotton School [in Shimla, India where I studied from 1960-70] was used for a Commemorative Postage Stamp issued on 6th October 2009 as a feature for the Sesquicentennial celebrations of BCS! Here is the photo And the [...]

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B&Ws

Remembering Simla. A few images had stuck in my mind as “black and white” from when I was making them … needed to be converted and I finally got around to doing them today evening. the Deodar tree on the way to Narkanda and the view of Sanjauli bazaar especially …    

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A few days of solitude, setting-up and  living at our cottage at Sidhora near Baldian [Mashobra]. Watching the mist and the lovely sunset colors….   Our cottage ~ A Gurudwara at Pinjore ~ The mist at Mashobra ~ The temple at Fagu [2] ~ The temple at Narkanda ~ Plant and rocks on the Narkanda road [...]

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A quick trip to get some long overdue work done at our cottage in Simla. The view of the Himalayan Range from the air [Dhaka to Delhi] was spectacular, though I could not capture the “spactularness” due to the dirty aircraft windows…  Little time to photograph the surrounds and birds. That meant I had to be [...]

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A couple of photos – the view from our cottage in Mashobra [near Naldehra]  in the Shimla Hills. The mist rolling up the pine forested hills and a nice sunset later that evening.   The cottage on a misty and rainy day ~ Mannat & Jyoti at Mashobra ~ Mannat sketching flowers in the garden [...]

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Nostalgia…

That came later, the nostalgia. While looking at some web-stats for this blog today, there was a strange reference in the “uncommon usage” section and so I followed the link to find where from this blog was being linked to. Actually, it was not linked to the web page I am talking about, but to a relatively unknown [...]

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