Fall colors: Nature's holiday cheer

Nature provides us with some holiday cheer in the form of fall colors. Every year I admire the lovely colors the leaves turn into. They are in shades of greens, reds, yellows, browns and violets...are there any colors left, I sometimes wonder? So I decided to post some of the foliage photographs I had taken in the recent past to add a dash of colour to my blog.

            

            

When I stop to look at the leaves I am reminded of the following lines from Frost's poem:

"The woods are lovely dark and deep

And I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep"

Ingredients for a Perfect Day

A colourful bookmark caught my eye. On it were inscribed the following lines in a beautiful font.

Ingredients for a Perfect Day

Favorite memories

Plenty of smiles

Some time for yourself

Happiness

Fresh air

Laughter

Good food

... and great friends!

Simple thoughts that could make all the difference to my day.

News: Feeding Fear?

After a hectic day I plumped down on my sofa to watch the news. Ten minutes of watching CNN got me feeling really dull. It prompted me to think about the kind of news I ended up watching. Most of the news I hear or read is about reports of violence, war, accidents and the like. In short news was about what went wrong in the world or some report which just frittered away my time (like someone commiting suicide).

Is the world around us so bad? Maybe or maybe not but subconsciously I was becoming more fearful, careful and probably pessimistic about the status quo of things around me. I am sure there are positive and hopeful events happening around me - news about how people's lives were touched in a hopeful way, an indigenous technology, the power of dreams and imaginations etc. Its just that I hardly get to know about them. I think its time for a change. TV channels and newspapers should start dedicating atleast a 15 minute prime time slot on the good things happening around us.