Mi Monet?

Baby steps, originally uploaded by Pixychik.

The big splash!

The big splash!, originally uploaded by Pixychik.

I always wondered how people got these amazing splash photos, not realizing that all I had to do was pick up my camera and grab a towel and get down to it.

4 hours, 400 photos, 1 cup of milk, 1 leaky tap and lots and lots fun later - woohoo! I'm one of those people who got these amazing splash photos!

I'm sure there's a lesson there somewhere... if only I knew what!

Give me a little time, help me clear up my mind...

Give me a little time, help me clear up my mind..., originally uploaded by Pixychik.

Wet, wet, wet

A beautiful morning today, originally uploaded by Pixychik.

Yesterday we woke up to find that it had been raining heavily for some hours - maybe since dawn, and later the entire day it was dark, cloudy and cool.

How lovely is that? Elsewhere in the world, they may find rainy days gloomy, but not us. Us? We feel thrilled to bits when it rains. Rain makes us want to drive around in the car and find a little shack serving hot coffee and deep-fried snacks. It makes us want to take off the watches and leave behind the cell-phones and go splashing in the puddles. Sit staring in the balcony. Curl up with a book. Watch a movie. Call in sick at work. Sleep. Rain really makes us happy, lazy and nostalgic.

To me, the strangest memories come back: my initial days in Bombay in 1992. Of all things, it floods my mind with the memory of the opening stains of Amy Grant's Baby Baby - like they used to waft out of homes of those envied few who had "hi-fi" music systems.

Even now, when it rains, I have to listen to that song.

What is your rain ritual?

Today, the sun has risen bright and shiny, and that is lovely too. Though, I do wish it'd rain some more. We do not need the drought.

Worth a 1000 words?

Dreams in technicolor (Explored # 44), originally uploaded by Pixychik.

If you like the photo, thank you. I took it.

And that is what I want to tell you. That this is the reason I don't blog anymore. I want to, but I can't. Because all that i can think of, obsess with and actually do all the time - is make pictures. Make, not take.

Anyway, so now you know what I do. Will you take a look and tell me if you like what I do? See here for the most popular ones.

Refinition

Slippers

When you know you've just foot-in-mouthed, and you find yourself insering rather clumsy foghorns into the hastily conjured explanation for an evident faux-pas.

"Slip errr's"

Every runner's random li'll Catch 22

Headphones make sense because you can enjoy your music without bothering other people, except that when you really do start enjoying your music they inadvetantly make you sing along, which starts bothering other people...