Leaf: The Semal tree which is flowering now and a rare patch of blue sky. Oh, I miss the Australian sky the most out of anything (excluding people of course). (Varanasi, India)

Rae: I'm finishing up the India photos with a few more for you. Here's one of the shoe repair man in the Mapusa market. As you know, anything can be fixed in India, even plastic flip flops!  (Mapusa, India)

Leaf: I love the old, rich architecture in my city. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: Everything, everything is decorated in India. (Mandrem, India)

Leaf: Community Lunch. Our friends Sid and Wade nourishing us with good music. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: I love the old village walls that I see when I take long drives on my scooter. (Palyem, India)

Leaf: I love living near a river, I love to watch her and hear her and see all of life greet her and weave around and beside and on and through her. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: I met this gypsy woman and her family in the market, and she kindly stopped for a very serious photo. (Mapusa, India)

Leaf: The abandoned fort Chet Singh and the bael fruit tree. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: It's a beautiful kind of joy I feel, watching a stilt-walker dance at sunset. (Arambol, India)

Leaf: Blessed are the women who provide the food. Blessed are they who nourish others yet are unnoticed. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: This lovely, lovely girl just turned 10! Time goes quickly and slowly all at once. (Arambol, India)

Leaf: This is a part of a traditional painting done near the door of a house to welcome the groom on the first wedding night. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: Miriam and Johanna whisked me away for an afternoon at a beautiful restaurant with a pool in a traditional Goan building on the beach, courtesy of Johanna's mother in Switzerland, who wanted her to do something nice with friends.