Floating fancies

When I went to Nainital, I liked climbing a mound just like Susan Orleans was enchated at a shooting party, that I thought I might have been a Sherpa in my previous life.
In Kulu Manali at a resort, giving a go at archery, I recalled all Dronacharya lessons to Arjuna. i thought I was cut out for it.

Perspective

In Soul Surfer, Carrie Underwood shows a bunch of students, a close up of eyes of fly and a walnut and tells them about how unrecognizable things can become if you look at them too close.
And some are understood only through intense viewing through a microscope. A thing is many depending upon where you look at it from.
The colours of a garlic

When microscopic RBCs are synthesised into our world.


At parties, I see a gathering of people cant get through even to 1/4 of the food made. May be there is some logic to Antoinette's line of 'Let them eat cakes'.

Today

Cramming info in appealing visuals.

Zip line at State fair.

A picture without frame. Photo button.

A couple followed by a child knocked our door. The lady held a bible in her hands. I knew what would follow next.
"We have a religion".
And the next sequence was to the effect of ending the conversation.
Now, can you "have" a religion?


Risks in space. Such charts and scales are done for post mortems of project.

Changing Mill Avenue

Its been  while since I have been to Mill Avenue. A spate of eateries have opened up. Handlebar Tempe with its links to La Bocca.

Links

On a birthday cake, I saw
Growing old is mandatory, Growing up is optional - Chili Davis.
When I came across “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”  in Everest '82.  The logo in the movie reminded me so much of Toblerone.

Theres a reference to pale horse in the movie.

Why do we iron our clothes lets just wear wrinkled ones. Another reason - To prevent scabs and scorches on arms.

A difference a clear day makes

Revisiting places I find something that I have missed the time before. This time I realised that Mt Humphrey's is visible from Verde Valley.

Recently a colleague surprised us with the fact that Colorado River is the left border of Arizona. He told us a quip too.
The river changes its route now and then. A lady whose house moved to CA was asked if she wanted to be in CA or AZ.
Lady: CA. Its cooler there.

On Antelope canyon boating ride, I found about how Antelope canyon was filled with water due to back fill from damming the Colorado river with Lake Powell dam. At the dam I found a red lizard. It reminded me of how we returned from hostel, all clothes colored red from the sand around. Lees Ferry as a book title in the information center seemed very familiar.

A 6 hr boat tour includes a view of Rainbow Bridge National Monument.

On the drive to page, we thought we saw a trio of fountains welling up. when close we found them to be smoking stacks of Navajo Generating station. It gets its coal supply from Kayenta Mines.

The road close to Zion National Park is natural with its dark red colour.

Canyons and Layers. the bottom of one is top of another. Grand Canyon, Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon.
The shuttle at Zion Canyon explained the history very well. All the pioneers who recognised the wilderness.

Meeting love suffices for a day.

ABC does not live here

How are you at checking your mail? Is it a chore that you have to do so as not to collect it at the post office.? Like laundry, there is an acceptable limit of procrastination. Not a tough task when you think about it. But it needs to get done.
In that precious mail space, where my mail can collect in comes mail addressed to a new addressee. I called the rental office to let them know and check if another resident of theirs swapped the building number. A couple of days in, we know have become a mail service sending it to the office with manager's prompt 'Oh, I'll take care of it for you right away' which means plan another visit when I'm not here.
When I saw a A4 size packet not for me, I fueled myself up for a duel and started in a simulated tone :
Me: Its the third time I'm here about this. I keep getting this ABC's mail in my mailbox.
Asst: Honey I dont deliver the mail
(I totally had to switch my tone)
We were trying to figure why this is happening.
Asst: Does your mailbox have names in it
Me: Only mine
Defending why the mail needs to be routed if its in their channels
Asst: I'm going to return it to sender
I went to the mail box and there I see my name card space split into half with a black line with ABC below it.  
How did this happen unbeknownst to me. But we forget the Postman/woman with the super key who can write any name they like and you ferret the unwanted mail. In news isUndeliverable mail experiment helps us understand why some governments work well and others fail. Unbeknownst to me am I part of an experiment?

Things to do:
ABC