Happy Eid

First, I apologize for not taking many pictures lately and promise to do better. These pictures are again of the construction site across the street from my office. I'm slowly trying to get them to warm up to me by giving them prints of previous shots so then I can start to take some interesting pictures. The contractor always tells me I'm interrupting work and to get lost. The boy at the bottom of this post is washing his hands from the water truck.

Weather: I know it's geeky talking about the weather but that's all the newspapers are discussing these days. It got down to 0.2C which is 32F - the coldest it's been in Delhi for over 70 years! People are freaking out! Reports of frost are flying around. And that's just at night - highs are still sixties and should be seventies. My guard, the one whose name I knew, quit because it was too cold (so I assume).

Happy Eid: Today is Bakri Id, the muslim id (also spelled eid) that is about goats??? Clearly my understanding is weak. But the neighborhood down the street from me (the one that will be destroyed once the malls are built to make room for traffic) is muslim. So they shut down the road this morning. In our detour, one of the local parking lots was full of perfectly straight rows of Muslim men sitting - probably about 400 of them, with white skull caps on. I've never seen that kind of organization in Delhi. Very impressive!