A long weekend after a long time

Weekend comes and weekend goes! Every year there are a lot of long weekends we get! But this weekend was special in its own way.. I did not fly down to any fancy place, neither did I travel miles to seek happiness..coz happiness was at my doorstep:-) There are certain things that are totally inexplicable but still I am trying to put them into words. Exactly, a year 26th May that I landed in India one year back. Most happiest day I remember in recent memory. Exactly a year that I have been "that"happy. I felt the presence of my "hometown" here, coz a very dear friend from my home, Kalyan visited me. In my home town, Kalyan we have this tower in the market place, which is called "Shivaji Chowk". This tower in Omaha, reminded me of that. This one was at the Riverfront. Lonely deserted street of Omaha on a usually quiet sunday evening. This was taken while driving, when the raindrops fell on the windshield. This one was in Old Market. There is something totally mystic about old buildings especially in the evenings! This was at the Omaha Heartland Park Observe the ducks that were walking in one straight line. They spent the entire time at the same spot. Wonder how they dont get bored:O This one is my favourite: "Path of Enlightenment" is what comes to my mind, when I look at it. I don't know but the pic of this "mynah" cracks me up totally whenever I look at it! Both of us call it "Khadoos mynah" for some reason. My friend was clicking a pic of this bird and after several attempts wherein she was just carelessly flying everywhere, he managed to capture her after all. The moment he said "E thamb (hey wait)"..she paused exactly for few seconds, allowed him to click her, gave him an attitude and flew off":/ A railway track totally empty. Kinda takes me down the memory lane when I travelled by train in India. Never got to see such a vie sans people:) Green grass and clear water..what else would one want? And this one is my favourite! There is this dark sky, pale blue water, greens of different hue. Clearly, the best weekend I ever had! Time well spent with a person from a familiar soil in a foreign country basking in midst of nature! A Home away from home was the feeling:)