Day 229 – 365 Days of Photography

8-17-2014

I do not know if they are edible, so it’s going nowhere near my mouth.     The kids in Cedros used these to play cricket on the beach using this as their ball back in the day and they locally named it “gru gru nut”.  My mother says that it comes washing down with the river.  So it’s not grown on the beach like the popular cocoplum/hicaco/fat pork.  I didn’t feel the consistency but she says it is dry and hard.  After a shower of rain came down they looked deep purple and not as outwardly white as in the photograph.

They were stacked by my mother and kids on a ledge as she was explaining to them how she played with it as a child.

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Day 228 – 365 Days of Photography

8-16-2014

YUK!  A sea cockroach or ‘Kachicom’ (sounds like cacicong_local name spelling unknown) was lurking around.  Me afraid of all things cockroach related, high tailed it out of there and then, came back only so close as to get a photo.  Key work ‘A’ meaning one, just one shot, all I needed was just one shot.  There you have it, for those so inclined, even looking at it via the screen is giving me the heebie jeebies.

Yikes!

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Day 227 – 365 Days of Photography

8-15-2014

Trinidad, a country of diverse ethnicities, cultures, religion, a people, is evident by our landscape, architecture and demographic sceneries.  This is called Temple by the Sea.  This temple holds many funeral services for our Hindu community, but it also does weddings, puja ceremonies (gifting to the Gods) and other religious ceremonies.

My husband and I went to drop our Tahoe off by our mechanic who lives close to this vicinity.  After leaving the vehicle with the mechanic, we drove down to this location and I took a few shots quickly before a pending funeral.  These days I am truly in love with the sky.  I’ve been setting my camera to really capture the cloud cover and pull the depth of it out in the scene.  Enjoy!

Here are a few additional shots!

Port of Spain in the distance

The caretaker asked me to photograph this Murti as the top is 67 years old and the base 19 years old.

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Day 226 – 365 Days of Photography

8-14-2014

Throw back Thursday!  Back to the zoo we go (not literally but just because it’s a throw back photo) for yet another sad zoo animal.  This particular animal flashed me with his nether regions when I was taking his picture.  Unfortunately he did it so fast, that I captured it on camera.  That feat tickled my son pink.  In pure good taste I will show you his face.

This is a howler monkey and they are famous for their loud howls, which travel three miles through dense forest.  Noisy little buggers.  Our forests are full of them and they can be spotted in many of our rain forests.  They are indigenous to Central and South America.

Oh and happy birthday to my Mother-in-law.  God bless her always!

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Day 225 – 365 Days of Photography

8-13-2014

Today our best friends said farewell to their dad.  I was given the somber humbling task of photographing the home going of a stellar dad, husband, uncle, sibling, grand parent, cousin, friend to many.  I’ve attended many an event of this nature, however, this one was different.  The atmosphere was lighter and the family was at peace with the transition.  Grief has many faces and they have weathered theirs well.  Today I accomplished this task having lost my own father and brother, understanding that comfort lays only within your own grasp and the time you allow yourself to mentally grieve.  Life is not without death, death hurts only those left to remember, to lament on what could’ve been.  The everyday tasks where you once called or leaned on the person, bring fresh memories of their existence.  Knowing that you can call no more, hurts, bruises, but understanding that no more pain or suffering is had by your loved one, comforts.  Peace can only be attained in the sweet delivery of a new sense of calm that slowly comes over you as time progresses.  Tough as it may be we come to this realization and soon, the memories of happy times can live within our souls without the sudden shedding of tears at the mere mention of their name.   They say that time heals it all, it is not time, but your own processing, your own mourning, your own walk down that road of grief that heals your pain.   I pray my friends and their family find that peace and understanding knowing that their dad is in a better place. 

As we stand below and look up into the hills, the clouds, the vast sky, we can only imagine heaven’s door, beckoning and our loved ones, dancing on pearly streets, frolicking with angels and casting their ever protecting arms over us.  A realm we know nothing of but our imagination has its full play.   For we are a creative body of people and our mind brings us solace in times of most need.  Rest in perpetual peace dearly departed soul.  Rest in Peace.

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