Pushpa' 1

TigerLily

Color me Purple

Buttercup Yellow

Touched

Cornonet Blue

Purple Rain

Hydrangea

Assorted pics from walks or visit to city, parks, ranch...!

Shoot me...lol !!

Lake @Gundlach Winery ( Napa Valley)


Amazing colors - I was also told that the colors even go lovely shades of Tandoori/Russet/ spice...!

Solitary shoot

Off Shoot

Dead Shoot

Maze of confusion

- I found these Top shoots with so much character and posed against the vast sky.

ALCATRAZ

This is how island looks from one side.

View gets derelict on close inspection...ahem...

I suupose this would appear as - "View 2 freedom"

Only Bright spot in this Gloomy place !!

Lone Sailor !!

Ouch...I craned my neck too much :-(

View of Golden Gate amidst Fog.....!! Very slight

* People say that trip to SFO is not complete till you take a ferry to Alcatraz. I found the place cold ( brrrrr) and very depressing...no wonder...prisoners also didn't like it much...Dah! No wonder they finally closed the place and turned into a reserve park.

* What I really found very interesting was tourist ( yeah yeah.....I was also that....but...) they were either clicking or getting posed in all those cells...just imagine you walk near a prison and then you see only these hands fluttering from 2 small holes...and some screaming for the effect....ahe...creepy....! Thanks but " NO THANKS".....

* Menu was good - so that got your head turned right !! Yeah good meals....lol.... this made me retrace my steps to mainland to find food.

Grapes of wrath...lol

Nah - this is not me....BUT - do wish I could have filched few bunches - ooohh they were really good !

* Assorted pics from Napa & Sonoma Valley (California) - place famous for their wines.

* Most of the establishments have been handed from generation to generation. So you could go through the long history of how all it started and nice sepia pics as old as 30's showing the family tree!!

* We started @ around 10 in the morning with our first wine testing round....and covered almost 5 wineries in the day( yippie)...needless to say we were sotted...lol....it was one long party which ended - 1 at night....nah wineries were closed late afternoon , so we came back to city had dinner and more wines....went for a dance party...again had more wines...!!

* Scoop of the trip -for our welcome our clients had hired Limo to take us out on wine testing trip. It was "Ghetto Fab Limo" -what they ordered on internet was not what they got....!! Oh mi god....they were not very happy....and beside cancelling the trip there was no other option available....so we took what we had !!

And this was just the good part - while midway....the airsuspension busted and we got landed ( literally with a whoosh) almost on road....lol...so we drowned our sorrow ( very happily in wines and champagne') - real merry bumpy ride back home -

* Song for the Road " Chalkaye Jaam......!!

Roses

* This one was dancing too much in breeze.

@ Night while walking back to our room.

For Cuckoo

* The log cabin where I stayed with my friends in Sierra, and knowing me had put my bed outside ( see the extreme right sofa cum bed). I was at once with nature - never used ipod for even a single night -I use to doze off listening to nearby river flow.

* In the morning - one day I was sitting outside and havig very late leisure breakfast n I saw this lil humming bird. So I missed taking pics....guess what it came back after a while n it was actually my friend who got my digi for me. So I shot those quick pics.

* Lastly - this post is for you Cuckoo ( http//cuculus.blogspot.com) for being my..... inspiration !! Thanks :-)

Gypsy Feet will wander.....

I am starting this another blog just for my travels around the world....! At this point I also recall this song -

Gypsy feet will wander, gypsy feet will stray......!

So tomorrow gypsy feet will take their first step !