REFLECTIONS

 

 
The lake is right at the heart of the city and is usually very busy, more so on weekends.
Lights, music, food is in abundance with even a dedicated play area for the little tots, invariably crowded beyond capacity.
 

 
The boats that sleep all day on the lake shore wake up to the glittering evening lights. It is time for them to take the enthusiastic crowd on a cruise to the centre of the lake, where, on a small islet, stands in repose Gautama Buddha, carved in stone to perfection.
 

 

 

 

 

 

What we love most are the sprawling lawns around the lake.
 
Away from the din of the loud music and the jostling crowd, we run free on the soft, green carpet grass which soothes our tired paws. Often, the ice-cream man comes by, much to our delight.
 
While Daddy settles down with his cup of instant coffee to Puppy-sit us, Mummy wanders off on the pretext of getting her customary cob of sweet-corn.
But we know better!
She is off with her camera again!

Isn’t this a befitting post for the lovely Meme called ‘Weekend Reflections’?

We did, literally, find these reflections over the weekend!!!
Why don’t you go reflect on some more reflections on this Beautiful Photo Blog ?

Have a lovely weekend,
Wags,
Buddy n Ginger

WEDNESDAY WORDS

Mummy finally figured out she has to use the old editor to post our videos. So here we are with two of our recent ones.

This one is from yesterday evening. Can you see us sniff the lovely smells the breeze brought our way?

Remember our hike to the rocks the other day? This is a video showing Buddy busy with a lizard family who refused to play with him. In the background, you can see me exploring the terrain with Daddy.

Maggie and Mitch asked about our flowers.

Well, those are not lilies but a species called 'Delonix Regia' commonly called 'Royal Poinciana' or 'Golmohar' in India. They are spring-summer flowering trees abundantly found in our country. The trees fan out and form thick foliage which provide shade, due to which these are grown all along the roadside.

The branches from our tree reach the parapet of our terrace, as you can see here. Those flowers come in Red, Orange, Yellow and even Purple.

Ours are Orangy-Red
Have a lovely Day,
Wags,,

A 'ROCKY HIKE'

Dear Furiends,

Thank you so very much for ALL your get-well wishes for Mummy. Those hugs and licks and wags help her more than any medication, she says. We have been cheering her up with lots of gooey kisses like the ones Bookerman and Asa sent for her. Her cold is better but she says she has some sort of urinary tract infection from stones in her kidneys.

No, don’t get worried. It is all her fault, actually. Jabblog is SO right. ..!
Mummy has known since ages that she has those stones and is supposed to drink plenty of water to flush them out. But on most days the bottle of water that she carries in her bag comes back just half emptied! And we were told she is supposed to drink FOUR litres per day?
Can you believe it, she gets paranoid WE are not taking enough water in this heat and might form stones too and pours water down our throats with a hose!! No amount of protesting helps.
DOG! Does she mean to choke us to death?
Now, we cannot do the same to her and so you see the results.

Moreover, she is supposed to cut down on all oxalates and calcium and caffeine. In short, everything that is nice and yummy!
But No, don’t feel sorry for her. She hasn’t been doing anything of that sort. In fact, she has been gorging on Mangoes and ice-cream and chocolates and cold-coffee! Arms to beat the intolerable heat, she says!!

So even though we feel bad that she is a little sick, we think it is all her fault. We (including Daddy) feel a little guilty too, because we have been getting generous shares from her bowls and we never complained.
Hopefully, she will see some sense now that she is actually feeling unwell.

Anyways, we got her to help us post about our weekend pawdventure..our ‘rock-hike’.
There are a number of these rockscapes dotting the city. These are about 2500 years old natural rocks formed by hardened lava from ancient volcanic eruptions.
For the more imaginative types, the rocks take the form of a mushroom, a frog, a tortoise. This place that we went to had one that looked like, we feel, a giant eagle sitting poised over the city.

It will not be long before most of these rocks are gone for ever. No, not earthquakes. Neither the wind nor the sun, but humans again. These rocks are being regularly blasted away to make way for human habitations. There is a 'Society to save the Rocks' trying to create some awareness.BUT mummy says they can probably just save a pawful.
Why can’t they keep the rocks and make a nice park where all of us can go play. There isn’t one decent park where we can go to without someone screaming in terror ‘take the dogs away!’
Silly SILLY humans!
Anyway, we had a lovely time that day. As you can see, there wasn't anyone around for miles and we could explore the terrain without a care.

(Mummy was more interested in the rockscape than us!Can u spot us?)

(WOWIE!!We found a cave!!)

(Buddy got immediately busy!)

(Oh!Whoever you are down there, PLEASE come out)

(Inspite of asking nicely, cajoling, crying and trying everything possible, nobody came out)

(Buddy tried calling another family of lizards, but to no avail)

(Hrrrmph!How rude.We only wanted to play)

(Ginger decided not to waste a perfectly beautiful evening and explore instead)

(Buddy was still busy. So it is just Mummy n Me)

(An Obelisk!Mummy was reminded of Dan Brown and his symbology!)

(Did someone want to say, 'I conquered'?)

(The sun soon decided to retire for the night..)  

(We too headed home...)

We really wish all of you were here.
We had a great time that day. And mummy says hopefully we can go back many times before someone destroys all those lovely rocks.
Whatever will happen to the Squirrel and Chameleon and Lizard families there?

Pondering,
,