Thursday Challenge- 4 ( NaBloPoMo- Take 9)

Today’s theme for Thursday Challenge
“PETS” (Dogs, Cats, Birds, Fish,…)

Let me introduce you all to Bronco who is technically my parents’ pet but Namnam insists he is hers instead . Although he has been around for about 8years, I never got a chance to introduce him for formally. Thanks to this week’s theme I can do that now.

Bronco

I have never grown up with pets around so when my parents called up one fine day, some 8years back, to tell us that one of their friends’ pet had given birth to a pup and that they had decided to bring him home and raise him, I was a bit taken aback. For two reasons. One, while I was happy that they had found a reason to keep themselves occupied, I was not sure how well they will take this new role and new addition in their nest.

Second being, I was petrified of dogs! And a prospect of being welcomed by a pup-growing-up-to-be-a-ferocious-dog during my visits home meant entering the house with reasonable amount of palpitations and shivers! Anyway I decided to keep my palpitations and shivers to myself so long as I could see how thrilled my parents were to have Bronco in their life. Especially my father.

My father, has always been a dog-loving person. Whenever we visited homes of friends who had dogs as pets, while my mother & I preferred to sit as far away from the dogs as possible with both our legs perched on the sofas, my father and brother could spend hours playing with them. Oh yes, my brother, too is a huge dog-lover.

So it was only natural that my father welcomed Bronco with open arms. And surprisingly my mother too accepted him lovingly. So much so that they would talk to him as though a parent would talk to his/her son. With all the cuddly words and pamperings and even addressing themselves as ‘Achan’ and ‘Amma’.

I remember how petrified I was the first time I went home after Bronco’s arrival. I had convinced myself that I was going to get bitten or scratched or ‘dog-handled’, but was pleasantly surprised when all he did was just sniff me and meekly give me way to enter home. I still couldnt gather enough courage to fondle him though or go near him but it was a welcoming introduction .

However whats hard to miss though is his devotion for my parents, especially my father. When I see my father doting on him and tending to his minutest needs, I realize theres so much of love and affection involved in that relationship.

So heres to Bronco!

Thursday Challenge- 3

WEATHER (Snow, Sun, Cloudy, Rain, Lightening, Rainbow, Tornado,…)

An impromptu shot of the Sun playing peek-a-boo early in the morning, clicked from my balcony

Thursday Challenge- 2

“AUTUMN” (Colored Leaves, Harvest, Farmer’s Markets, Raking Leaves, Piles of Leaves, Warm Clothes,…)

***Very sorry to be bombarding you with my Italy pics, but this week’s theme for Thursday Challenge left me with no choice!***

Autumn and winter are two of my most favorite seasons. And considering where I live, these are the two seasons that make me crave for them the most. Having grown up in Delhi, I have the most beautiful and endearing memories of my childhood attached to them. Some of which I have shared in an earlier post.

Unfortunately I dont have any digital images of those childhood moments that I can share today, hence sharing an image from our recent holiday. Not a very good autumn pic I know, but this was the closest I could get from my recent collection

Heading into a long weekend. See you all on the other side . Have a wonderful weekend

Thursday Challenge-1( And I jump on the bandwagon too)

This week ‘s challenge is “CRAFTS” (Supplies, Knitting, Crocheting, Woodworking, Pottery, Painting,…).

Ever since I saw the theme for this week, I had been wondering what to share. Craft and I have always been inversely proportional to each other . But since I had made up my mind to share something come what may, I thought of asking my 4 year-old to draw something.

There’s a chance that you may not find any connection or meaning in the painting. There’s a chance that you may even. She drew whatever came into her mind. Here’s what she came up with.

A house, a garden full of grass and some flowers, sun & sky are a regular feature in most of her paintings. But if you’re wondering whats that butterfly doing hovering around the sun, then your guess is as good as mine . However I didnt ask her to change it and redraw the butterfly near the flowers(as is the normal perception) because I didn’t want to clip her imagination.

The imaginations of the little minds work in the strangest most amazing manner, dont you think? They may not hold any reasoning, rationale or logic but still when they try to tell us what they had in mind you cant help but wonder at their imagination.

Its ironic how with age and experience our imagination contracts instead of expanding.

On that note let me leave you with a little challenge of my own. Can anyone figure out in the painting, what that huge figure in the middle is? Lets see how well your answer matches up to what Namnam had in mind while drawing that

EDITED TO ADD: Ok, people, time to divulge the answer. It is a mic! Oh yes it has two eyes and it is smiling right back at ya! Do I see multiple rolling-eye emoticons being thrown at us there??

Here’s wishing you all a bright, cheerful and a safe Diwali