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Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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11 comments:
Beautiful ! I would love to go there .
So this is where the indians are from.
stunning pics!
Gorgeous
I love your India pics
The female westerner is looked upon quite often..;))
Love the colors. Whate are they, spices?
Holi is the time of year when roadside stalls throughout northern India bear tables covered with bags of colorful powder, called gulal -- greens and blues, yellows, reds and purples -- rows and rows of bags.
Open air piles of powder are carved by the breeze as they tempt the wind.
These are the days leading up to Holi, the exuberant festival of color. Holi falls on the full moon of the month of Phalguna. The Hindu calendar uses lunar months, and Phalguna typically runs from the latter half of February through the first half of March. The crops have been harvested, so farmers have more free time and some money to celebrate the end of winter. With Holi, this celebration is an ecstatic burst of color. In the past, the color came from flowers that blossom only during the festival. Now, however, the powder is often created artificially.
On the eve of Holi, bonfires burn at many street corners.
That's what the powder is, it's gulal, for celebrating Holi.
Heck yeah! I'd like to take a ride atop an elephant with a huge umbrella. That looks like fun!
Those are such beautiful pictures!
Love the colors of the spices! I am keeping it to use for a palette for future work....
Ok not spices but gulgal...im still keeping the palette of colors!!!
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