The picture of the man carrying his business on his head was not the photo I was after. This man was doing a good job, not using his hand, but when he saw me with my camera he put his hand up and turned his head. The photo I was after was the best head carry we have seen yet. A man was crossing the street just in front of our auto rickshaw and he had a barbaque grill on his head. It had smoke trailing along behind him and a pretty good fire started in the grill. I almost fell out of the rickshaw trying to get the picture taken, but it got away. It was the big one that got away.

The guard at the gate of the office had a visit from his daughter and wife this last month. He proudly brought his daughter into the office for us to see. She is a beautiful little girl and you can see the pride in his eyes. I took their picture and later gave him two copies, one for him to keep and one for his daughter to have. His family will leave Delhi and he will remain here where he has good work for the landlord of our building and can send money to support his family.

On the way home from work, we stop at our store. Actually there are four stores that we use near our apartment and here is two of them. It is so hot now that these little stores are open in the morning at 7:00 am and close at noon due to the tremendous noon heat (that is forcast to be 118F to 120F) then will open again at 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Hey what more can you want!! There are more modern stores, but they are so far away that we use our local stores. We just do not have time because every day is office, or English lessons, or music lessons. We get closer to the "modern" store when we get over to the church, but we have our computer with us on those days for our PowerPoint lessons, and that is all we can carry. On most Sundays we don't have our computer and projector, but it is Sunday and we won't shop. We worry about the safety of the egg's sitting out in the hot sun. The "modern" store does not refrigerate them either!!

The baby birds have been growing fast, and all week the mother bird was flying up about two feet and landing back on the ledge. Over and over again she demonstrated the art of flying. We could tell that she knew that they were ready to leave the nest. On Friday they were flying from the bathroom window ledge to the main nesting ledge, and last night dad bird came and drove them out of the air vent and they were gone. One month from birth to maturity. Today mom and dad were making another nest and the process will begin again. I was thinking about the little birds as I saw how much little Cora had grown in just one month. I am glad that we can keep our little chicks so much longer.

I wanted to at least up date our blog with a few comments, since I was able to open and look at your blogs. I love to look at the kids and read what you have to say, and I appreciate every word. I am not good at all in adding coments, I seem to do something wrong whenever I try!

We have a family of pigeon's just outside our livingroom window. The window is really just an air vent about 6 X 6' square. Just enough room to let in light, and to open a window to let in air. The bird family was here before we moved in here in January, so the mother bird is used to us now. It was interesting that her two eggs hatched on Preston's birthday, the very day that Cora came home from the hospital. So I took a picture of the two baby hatchlings.