Fall !!!

While I was in college, I came to know there are 2 college sessions in US, the fall and the spring. I understood the spring part, but never understood the fall part. Now, when I have seen it, I know why they call it fall.
This is the first time I saw fall in US and I am in love with it. Trees changing colors, pink, green, yellow and all sorts of colors; the same streets become so colorful. I was planning for quite long time to go out and do some fall shooting, but my work kept me busy like hell; I was on house arrest for quite sometime.
And boy, it feels so good to be done with all the work; this weekend there was no work. So, we decided to go for a hike and that was my chance to do some fall photography. I didn't really do a good job here, very little light was able to reach on our tree covered hiking track and I didn't got good shots; need to do a better job next time.......
I wanted to do lot of shooting, but couldn't really find a good subject; I need to be innovative in finding something interesting at a place where light can reach :D.



Back home it's Diwali, the festival of light, and I am missing it a lot, a lot!!!! especially those decorated street markets, crowd of people shopping on Diwali :(
If everything works out well, my next weekend would in D.C. and it will be very nostalgic experience, as D.C. was the first place I visited outside India.

What's cooking ?

One thing that I have improved in last few years because of my traveling is cooking. I love Indian food, mmm lots of spices. As always this reminds me of a movie, "Along came a Poly", the Adam Sandler movie in which he doesn't likes spicy food.

Good thing being in US is that one gets to try different cuisines; I have tried so many over the course of my travel, Italian, Thai, Chinese and the fast food. But my love will remain with Indian food. Cooking and Eating is all together a different experience rather than just eating. And Indian food generally is hard work, though the recipes are pretty much same, but it takes lot of hard work to cook the dishes.

And when it's nice weather outside with heavy pour, I hate to go out and as always TV has not been my favorite thing. So, to pass time, I thought why not try something new. So, I decided to cook "Vegetable Biryani". And hardly I knew it will a lot of work, it took me around 1.5 hrs to get to this.

This was the first time I cooked this dish and when I tasted, it was so yum, that I couldn't stop myself from taking a picture and posting here. With yoghurt it was perfect authentic Indian dinner.

A Priceless experience !!!