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I'm a thirty-something girl who wants to see at least a thousand more amazing things before I die. I live for travel, good books, and amazing conversations. I'm a sometimes belly-dancer, a perpetual junk merchant, and spiders like me a lot. I have fooled myself into thinking I have a green thumb in the garden, but I do at least take some amazing photographs of flowers if I do say so myself. I used to be a "goth" but I'm way too cheerful nowadays, not that it's a bad thing but it's sometimes hard to reconcile skull-collecting and liking Martha Stewart in the same lifetime. I started out wanting to be a mortician and here I am a preschool teacher. You just never know how you'll end up. Oh yeah, and one of these days I'll retire in a little villa in Italy or France with Jeff and a couple of cats.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Humayun's Tomb

Once a burial ground for the Moghul emperors of India, the site known as Humayun's tomb in Delhi eventually became a park for the British colonials. To me it felt like pleasant uncrowded place to wander on a warm day. I did not write much of its history in my journal, but these are the things impressions that stuck with me.
Ancient tombs white marble, deliciously cool to wander in. Old men sweeping the tombs with long wispy brooms.
Stone lacework on the arched windows. Tiny staircases and passageways to explore. Views over the lawns of the park gardens.
Dogs sleeping in the sun. Dusty palm trees and long pathways along tiny channels of water that led to small fountains. An enormous water-bug. Chipmunks scurrying everywhere.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jocelyn said...

GORGEOUS. Words and photos.

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