The bright blue one is a regular one around here. This photo was taken just after it died and before it was dragged away by ants. Isn't it a brilliant blue? Apparently they are endangered.

This was taken in Chennai.

From Beauty around me

Some more on my favourite time of day

Dusk turning to night.

I go out for a walk.  It is dusk, my favourite time of day.  There is a half-moon slightly westward and Venus over eastwards.  Big puffy clouds, grey with a white head, sail slowly into view.  I breathe in the air and just for a minute my skin dissolves and I am one with the air around, the trees, the ground, the sky...........till my doggy friend reminds me that I am me.

It seems to be new baby time all around.  A colleague and I were standing near the door at work (a school surrounded by vegetation of all shapes and sizes) and we saw running across the path,a mongoose.  This is a fairly common sight, but what was interesting was that we saw a tiny little one running with mom, just under her belly! Was sorry I didn't have a camera.

My favourite time of the day.

                                                         [Taken with my LG phone]