This morning I was checking my blog
to find out as to how my previous post is faring in terms of “comments”
received. There were no new additions to make me feel happy about. However, an uncharitable invite was peeping out to join the
bandwagon of competitors for Capture the color
contest. Though it was not something unfathomable to identify photographs with
the 5 colours but it was the thought of roping in 5 more gullible bloggers that
was agonising. I also strongly feel the way Nisha
has indicated while writing on the subject.
Its has now become incumbent on my
part to make a quick search and produce whatever I have. I shall, however,
desist from explaining the attributes, significance or otherwise of the various
colors as they have been dealt with at length by many of my fellow bloggers so
far.
THE RED:
Recently when I was on a visit to a
wholesale fruit market in Chennai, I came across some red fruits looking like
plums. On my enquiry, the vendor told me something in the vernacular which could
not be registered in my brain.
GREEN:
On the 3rd of this month I received a
telephone call from Coimbatore asking me to come out of my apartment at Chennai
and to look at the sky to witness a beautiful view of the Sun having a disk
around it. I went up and looked at the sky from the terrace of the building. It
was all black clouds preventing the Sun to show off. This phenomenon was
reported by our friend R. Ramakrishnan the same day in his post titled Disc around the Sun. While
still on the terrace I looked around and noticed the Neem trees below full of
fresh foliage.
WHITE:
White too has many shades. While at a
garden in Srinagar, this flower known as Magnolia Grandiflora with its thick
petals seemed something exotic.
BLUE:
Blue skies and blue waters have
always been soothing to ones eyes. The Ekambareswara Temple tower (Gopuram) at
Kancheepuram has a beautiful sky as its backdrop. I am yet to write about the
splendid architecture of this temple complex.
YELLOW:
The Papaya fruits on sale at Chennai fruit market. They have great medicinal properties apart from being tasty. “Pepsin” is derived from raw Papayas used in many stomach ailments.
Now the most undesirable and
uncharitable part of this post is to rope in 5 more blogger friends to carry the
contest forward. With due apologies I list them hereunder:
3. Green Tomato
5. Travel Magic