Lighting the lamps

Oil-fired earthen lamps are lit and placed on our door front on a festive occasion.
My post for Mellow Yellow

Wayside stall

Fried-in-oil eats, exposed to dust raised by passing vehicles,  may well be tasty. But then, not all of us as given to eating out,  not this style. This tea and pakora stall on roadside at Burliyar, a Nilgiris hillside hamlet, caters to bus passengers. Buses on Mettupalayam-Coonoor-Ooty route halt at Burliyar, where Tamil Nadu state transport employees union runs a co-op canteen close to the bus stand. This stall,  closer to public conveniences,  relies on bus passengers spilling over from the co-op canteen.
My post for Mellow Yellow Monday

Of blue and yellow

At a railway station platform, on the Mysore-Bangalore line.
My post for Mellow yellow and Blue Monday.

At Mysore market

Farmers bring their produce for sale at a make-shift market that is open only during morning hours or until the vendors run out of their stocks.
My post for Mellow Yellow.

A sky so full of colours

A rising sun paints the sky for us, at the Mantri Synergy residential complex on OMR in Chennai.
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Summer break

With schools closed for summer these children hitch a ride on their father's pushcart, to help him with vegetable sales. Photo taken on Chamaraja Double Road in Mysore.
My post for Mellow Yellow and Blue Monday.

Pavement sales

I couldn't quite figure out what it was on the pavement, other than that it was made out of bamboo. Pavement vendors set up shop around Devaraja Market before shopping hours at Devaraja Urs Road in Mysore.
My post for Mellow yellow and Blue Monday.

Wayside station

Maddur, a midway railway station on the Bangalore-Mysore line. Maddur is known for its tasty vada, a snack sold by traveling vendors on Mysore-Bangalore trains. Those looking for a spot of yellow in this shot will find it on the cement slab under the signboard.
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Blue train

A strip of yellow on the blue train makes it a two-in-one shot - my post for Mellow Yellow and Blue Monday. Mandya is a wayside town, and a prime rail halt on the Bangalore-Mysore route. Known for paddy, sugarcane and its aggressive farming lobby, Mandya thrives on Cauvery water flowing through a well-knit irrigation canal system.

Garland of lemon

Devotees offer lemon garlands to the deity at the Nimishamba temple in Srirangapatna near Mysore. Make-shift shops selling flowers/garlands and other puja offerings line the entrance to the shrine, located on the Cauvery river bank.
My post for Mellow yellow and Blue Monday (the blue here is a stretch, I admit)

Mysore memories

It has been over two weeks since we shifted base to Chennai, from Mysore. And my wife and I haven't yet got used to a life without Mysore, where we had spent over six years. Besides, I still retain in my computer a fair collection of Mysore photos. This one is a quiet image of an otherwise busy traffic junction on Devaraja Urs Rd. Took this photo before business hours.
My post for Mellow Yellow and Blue Monday.

Yellow headload

A blue-shirted vendor carrying a head-load of yellow to his flowers shop at Devaraja Market, Mysore.
My post for Mellow Yellow and Blue Monday.

The shutter is blue

Dedicated Blue Monday bloggers may find their preferred colour taking a backseat here. Eye-stealer in the shot is coloured yellow. Took this photo at K R Circle during the last Dasara, an annual festival of which we in Mysore make a big deal. The festival stretches for 10 days during which the entire city is lit up. There are daily concerts held on the Palace grounds. A colourful procession through the town marks the end of Dasara festival.

Backyard bonfire

Took this shot from third-floor window of our apartments complex in Mysore. We had a power shutdown, and all that could be seen in the darkness outside was this bonfire of a heap of dry leaves.
My post for Photo Sunday themed Fire and Mellow Yellow.

Bazar traffic

Experts have it that on city roads in India you can find 18 different modes of transport competing for space. I can count five, not including the car in which I was traveling when I took this shot in Chennai.
My post for Mellow Yellow and Blue Monday.

Swing in the living room

Living room of my blogger friend in Ooty. Kalyani whose blog posts, as distinct in substance and style as her living room, chose not to blog nearly 4 months back - 'I don't want to 'continue to ruminate so much and publicly on me and mine'.
Wish she has a change of mind.
My post for Mellow Yellow and Blue Monday.

A touch of blue on yellow

A roundabout on JLB Rd.,Mysore,named after a local sports hero who made it big in cricket.
My post for Mellow Yellow and Blue Monday.

Yellow 'jutka'

The horse-drawn two-wheeler, we call it 'jutka'(meaning, a jolter), was a popular mode of public transport a couple of decades back. It is now considered a tourist attraction.The cart-driver taking a nap on a sidewalk, off JLB Road in Mysore.
My Mellow Yellow entry this Monday.

Photowalk Karanji

These youngsters were part of Photowalk group we have in Mysore. Group leader Kiran Ravikumar sets a date,and names the venue for our walk. Of a score of us who took part in the Karanji Lake Walk some time back, I was the eldest, at 72.
My Mellow Yellow shot for this Monday.

Wedding registration

A newly married couple emerging after their wedding registration at Tiruporur,near Chennai.My wife and I were there for registration of our newly-acquired apartment at Mantri Synergy residential complex at Padur (OMR). I took this photo while hanging out at the registration office,waiting for completion of our paper work.I usually carry my camera wherever I go.
My Mellow Yellow shot this Monday.