Mellow Memories

*Mellow Memories
*Missing home
*Missing the togetherness
*Missing the evening tea times

*Missed the simple meal on banana leaves

Missing the reflections,shadows and mellow light
*Missing the hibiscus blooms ,that went into different urulis each day
*Missing the flooring which helped me capture all the reflections in its true spirit
*I miss each moment i spent ....

*Memories of home... It is music which will open your heart and heal your soul as you take a journey ...

*simple things which helped me make compostions

*frames just get set into mind 

*moments of laughter and joy

*moments of separation,swelling tears in eyes

*To wipe your tears away put your head on my shoulder cause daddy's here . ...

*I am extremely blessed to have a wonderful husband
*Moments spent in celebration

Marigolds and Marriage

*M is for MArigold

*M is for MArriage

*Beautiful marriage between marigolds and other flowers

*The smell of jasmine when you are standing quietly in a garden on a moolit night….(yes,I love jasmine:))..the way we use marigolds for everything..:)from festivals to weddings to gods and even on a last journey….flowers are so much a part of us…are we the only country that uses flowers so?:)

*The roses as an offering to Shiva…the white jasmine in venis and gajras…:)( humming genda phool are you?)*The way a certain sacredness pervades our life at every corner..lowers

*The Indian wedding flower

*marvellous colours indeed

*we followed the tradition by using marigolds and jasmine for the flower decoration for this marriage

*A din of bells, drums, and chants; the mingled odour of incense and jasmine flowers wound around the bushy tuft of charcoal black hair of women

*The flute and violin that sang a thousand ragas

*the beautiful semblance of flowers,lamps and Nettipattom(the ornamental headgear for temple elephants during festive occassions and also the beaded umbrella (Muthukuda)used only during festive occassions)

headgears of the elephants are all gold plated

*marriage resembled a big festive occassion for the family.

*the sheer riot of colors ..the zari,gota,salma sitaara..:)the beauty that is in them

*kancheepurams this time brought were all in shades of light pink to bright pink to oranges for the family....

*the cacophony of noises,the medley of colours…

*sarees in and jewellery in ……the sheer confusion of it all…and yet where else would one find this beautiful insanity?

*The sheer love of jewellery that we seem to have…its absolute madness…and yet not madness…

it was an occassion to see all pinks and orange kancheepurams

*The bride adorned a bright chilly red saree

*The way we celebrate marriage here is with our heart and souls

*Its a Celebration of Life

*I almost smelt the marigolds and roses and jasmines while writing......

*We wait for more occassions and more marigolds......

Sweets for all,Good News....

Gulabjamuns on the King Fisher flight,way home,Kerala

*you may all be wondering!is it so?

*Have some sweets

*Its Celebrations at home

*Its my only sister's wedding

*On my way home,into the greeneries and the world of sloping tiles ,backwaters and lakes

*Into the music season with my grandma

*world of togetherness

*moments to cherish

*radiant star lit eveings

*the fragrance of mallippoo

*The prosperity of marigolds and turmeric

*Kancheepurams and Photoshoots..

*takes me five years back to my wedding season

*enjoyments at home

*prayers and blessings

*live happily forever

*will bring you lot of images and lovely moments

Happy Holi !

*Holi,a festival of colours.Not much celebrated at our home

*But we bought colours this time for Photoshoots.Colours and flowers ,a gorgeous combination at home,the whole frames and the moods lifted us to a new level.Salabanjhika-"torch bearers" at my home,had hands full of colours and flowers,flowers and colours had an amazing fragrance...colours which fell on the news paper,looked like a star sprankled night sky.we simply gazed at the colours and flowers

*It was all of a sudden , my little one started sprinkling colours on her and on all of us,then it was a play of colours at home,captured some colourful moments

*amazing images of the celebrations of our life to yours

*hope you all enjoy the flower colours

Images and Ideas conceived By Lakshmi Arvind

Please dont copy or steal images.

of tea cups and better mornings...

*Perfect cup of tea...

*biscuits ,my favourite Marie..

*some left overs of the plum cake

*the smell of tulsi leaves,is it tulsi chai today or elaichi?

*making my little one drink milk:-)

*waiting for light to make its way in the corners

*my camera on" take" mode

*long walks in parks;

*Music in the morning

*some fresh flowers on the table

*flowers plucked fresh for god

*"coo" ing of doves at our windows

*Quick breakfasts 

**Its Morning hours,

*do pause and enjoy the sense of the day

  Have a good day!

a small compilation of the moods of different mornings.............

i take you all into my small world of "perfect teas and marie biscuits and fragrance and flowers".

i hope you all enjoyed this lovely journey,

pause and wait for more

do tell me how you enjoy your mornings..

Images and ideas conceived and photographed by LAkshmi Arvind

pl dont copy or steal

Me and My Floating Dreams....

Fragrance and Flowers floating takes me back to memories of childhood...

Wonderfully fond childhood memories.

Memories about my specially fond grandpa..

My Love for music,the only reason,my love,my grandmother..

Magical moments at home,my sister.. 

Stop and remember all old things  once ..

Time has a way of breaking up our memory into fragments of miniscule pieces.

Pieces so fragile and delicate that thy caught up in the winds of time and strewn along the path of life and eventually forgotten,...

Trying to capture and preserve them within confines of our mind becomes exceedingly impossible as time goes by, and slowly they begin to vanish for good...buried forever in the past...