By Magda, 8 August 2009

Toronto is home these days

Up the porch and through the length of the house and out the kitchen door to this small garden retreat. I spend a lot of time here these days.

The benches are a favourite sleeping place of the cats, and great for breakfast because this outdoor room faces east.

By Magda, 7 July 2009

Bit of greenery turns crumbling to picturesque, Calcutta, India

Bit of greenery turns crumbling to picturesque, Kolkata, India

View from the hotel where I stayed in April 2008.

By Magda, 13 April 2009

Goats in Calcutta, India

There are a lot of goats in Calcutta. You see them picking their way in around traffic, eating garbage and paper, and even being herded through the narrow back streets. Imagine coming up on a herd of 50 goats in the streets of YOUR city! In the surrounding restaurants, the goat meat is listed as mutton.

Hairy goat in Calcutta, India

Chained to a post, resting on the sidewalk, a hairy goat that Marc says was "much creepier" in person.

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By Magda, 11 March 2009

Iconic similarity between ornate Hindu temple facades and wedding posters in Pondycherry

Here is a typical poster placed in front of a wedding hall announcing the wedding that is going to happen later in the day. The bigger the poster, the more prestige, and some of the posters are much larger than this one!

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