Above – Pune girls and me sitting on the stairs overlooking the river. One of the girls took the photo with her phone and emailed it to me. I also took a photo of them with my phone and emailed it to her.

Let me get caught up with my “Down by the River” photos I was unable to upload yesterday …

This was one of the first photos I took after walking into Alandi from the rickshaw. I thought it was a good photo, but then the men started laughing (see next photo). What I didn’t know was that Jill was making hand gestures behind me suggesting I may be crazy. That made them laugh. Well, I just may be.  

Women doing laundry in the forefront.  

These men were also doing laundry on the other side of the foot bridge. 
The structure in the center of the photo below is some sort of temple. We didn’t walk over to it, but could see that people were congregating around it, perhaps placing flowers and praying. 

Alandi entryways calling me to take photos. 
  

This is how Nana was much of the time, looking back to see where we were. He didn’t want us to get lost and we got sidetracked along the way with everything going on around us. Nana is so patient and caring, and he really looks after us.

This is the busiest marketplace near the big temple so many people pass through here. The woman sitting holding flowers on the left wanted us to buy flowers from her. There are a lot of flower vendors because worshippers buy flowers to offer at the temples. Nana has a particular place he had us buy our flowers where we also left our shoes before going to go into the temple.

I have some photos of temples, but photos aren’t allowed in the larger temple so I don’t have any to share from there. I’ll share the other temple photos another day.

Here’s something for the kids big and small. Be sure to come back to my blog to read the rest of this post when you’re done watching traffic dodge the herd of water buffalo.

This morning Prashantji “taught” Pranayama. It was the most transformative class I’ve attended this month. My Pranayama practice and my teaching of the subject will never be the same.

On the Home Front

I FT’d with Robb, Akuch, Alo and Kando Sunday evening. It was the first time I saw my new baby grandson for the first time outside of photos. It was kind of in person, only not exactly – like exactly the same only different. Kando slept the entire time and got many kisses from his big brother. In between kissing Kando and chatting with me, Alo was also busy organizing and playing with (& also showing me) his Matchbox cars. Akuch is doing well and looks good, and Robb has returned to work after the summer. I’m hopeful to visit them at the end of September or early October. I’ll need to get grounded in SD a couple weeks first.

Blogged on Amma’s MacBook from iNdia with LOVE!