…& LIFE COMES FULL CIRCLE – CLICK CITRUS!

Life comes a full circle in many more ways than 1. Yes, I’m 1 year old in blogland & everyday offers exciting, new insights & views galore. Gathered some courage to peek into my first couple of posts & know now how far I’ve come. One of my first posts were not even remotely related to baking…the Indian tailor Bird in our yard, which adopted a plant in our garden & sewed a nest, laid eggs, hatched the chicks…which flew crookedly from plant to plant! I followed crookedly with a camera not knowing that ‘macro’ was a function in photography too, not just boring old Economics that I had laboured through in college! Why am I bringing this silly topic up?Hmmmmmmmmmm…because, it was then that the kind Bee welcomed me into this scary world & asked if I would like to be part of Click, the theme for September was Eggs! She gave me a days grace, & I posted the only eggs I had ever clicked in my life…Tailor Bird Eggs! Eeeeeeks, don’t get me wrong, I had no intentions of cooking the precious things…but now wonder what possessed me to post these poor eggs in a foodie photo competition!! (Bee, of course, never said a word, & graciously accepted my silly, unfoodie entry!!) Walked out this morning to see that the tailor bird has returned & begun setting up another nest…a full year later!!

Circle complete…& life goes on to another month of CLICK! With Jugalbandi‘s CLICK, I began burning some midnight oil to read up about my point & shoot. Discovered ‘MACRO’…WOOHOO… & then would macro shoot all day long…..still do. Every month of CLICK throws up AMAZING pictures, a huge & steep learning curve for me. I stand nowhere in the running, but something within wants me to send a participative entry…

The August 08’s theme is CITRUS. One of my favourite foodie & natural flavours. The freshness & zing of Citrus is unparalleled. It’s got this ‘get & up & go’ thingie which I absolutely love. So, here’s my entry for CLICK CITRUS: August ’08. Why do they look all shrivelled up? Story follows…

…& brings me to my current obsession! My previous one was yeast, the battle of which has been largely won, so I’ve moved on to trying to plant a ‘tangerine’ plant. I love the ornamental look, beauty & freshness of this plant. Was speaking to a neighbour last evening, who said to me that the plant would grow from seeds. Had saved up 2 tangerines from making ‘Seville/Bitter Orange Marmalade’ earlier this year & dried them for posterity. Hit the soil this morning, spade & all; have shoved some seeds into Mother Earth…will now check every morning to see if I’m gonna get lucky! If you never hear of this obsession again…you know the seeds didn’t oblige or my green thumb is history. Hopefully from a seed shall grow a plant!

A rambling post like this isn’t often me, but I have so many criss-cross connections in my 1 year old blog-brain, that I need to add a few last clicks!

These three ‘busy’ pictures are dedicated to the hardworking Bee & her equally hard-working better half, Jai! If you look at these creatures at work, you’ll know where she got her name from! These buzzing ‘bees at work’ are currently buzzing in the tree outside my window & I was terrified they would attack me.

They didn’t! I got as close as I dared to, clicked & did the vanishing act. Not good to tempt danger…but wanted to put these busybees/ yellow wasps (Ropalidiini)in for Bee. They looked so pretty, with huge green eyes like aliens!!