Colorful kolams from the neighborhood that was drawn for Pongal . These are kolams drawn by my childhood friend Karthi's wife! She is ...

It's good to hear The Chennai Sangamam, a street festival of Tamil Nadu's traditional folk arts held during Pongal, the harvest fest...

Our Colorful Pongal Kolam Not alone Pongal, any festival or event is not celebrated without drawing Kolam in Tamil culture. Although kolam i...

The last trace of green illustrates a Christmas tree before yellow cover. A ripe leaf from the Indian tulip tree (opposite our home) bears...

 A colorful school frontage... on Periyakulam-Theni highway.   The cropped image was a little shaky as it shot from a moving car. 

I wake up and sleep to see An intricate work of nature An exhibition of stick science Inherited by birds by nature. I marvel at the ...

Something I never miss to check - the construction of an excavator on top of a building - when nearing Trichy on the national highway with ...

Every year the Pongal festival leaves me with some colorful Kolams that I could use for my RGB Monday series, but this year it left me with ...

Let’s begin the month (February) colorfully! My aunt’s another colorful butterfly kolam from the Pongal festival. Kolam considered an ausp...

Two weeks before, I visited the Amirthi Zoological Park in the vicinity of Amirthi forest on the foot of Jawadhu Hills, near Vellore.   Tho...

A colorful Kolam from neighborhood...   Captured from the evening walk (in wheelchair) on the day of Pongal and the Kolam looked bit...

Colorful Pongal Kolams by mom and aunt Kolam is a cultural identity of Tamils, as well as to the southern states of India similar...

One above the far balanced rocks, gives shape to a contemplate woman! Ps. The cute balanced rock sculpture was capture at the...

My grandmother has been keeping Golu at her home for less than a decade, except couple of years due to grandfather’s illness and demise, s...

During the wait at the toll gate on ECR (east coast road) in Chennai, I used to take photos sometime on the plants and rock paintings ...

My aunt's colorful Pongal Kolam drawn last month during the festival of Pongal, very next to mom's Pongal pot kolam . Kolam...

My aunt's  sparrow kolam for the New Year Kolam is a custom followed by the households in south India and it’s a daily activity...

Our colorful Karthigai Deepam   Or an arrangement of Diyas ! Karthikai Deepam is a South Indian festival observed by the Hindu...

Here is mom’s Pongal Kolams that she drew for the Pongal festival. As I told in my previous post mom took enough diligence to make all t...

(Click pics for enlarge) I don’t think it’s too late to post on Pongal, held last week. As always it was three of us (me, mom and dad...