This was a wonderful month in my life, namely because of finding out that I am pregnant for the first time--something we've been hoping would happen for a very long time now.
Day 24/365
Monday, 5 May 2008
This is a more topical one -- given the protests we've all seen in the news about the Olympic flame. After the Chinese invasion, many of Tibet's treasures made their way over the Himalayas into northern India. Andrew's grandfather bought this silver plate from a box wallah in Kalimpong, north of Calcutta.
It depicts the half-leopard, half-human goddess of the Himalyan mountain of Kichin-Junga, who commands the devotion of the villagers on the mountain's slopes.
Day 24/365
Monday, 5 May 2008
This is a more topical one -- given the protests we've all seen in the news about the Olympic flame. After the Chinese invasion, many of Tibet's treasures made their way over the Himalayas into northern India. Andrew's grandfather bought this silver plate from a box wallah in Kalimpong, north of Calcutta.
It depicts the half-leopard, half-human goddess of the Himalyan mountain of Kichin-Junga, who commands the devotion of the villagers on the mountain's slopes.