Dear members
It was on March 28 last year we, the Chennai members, met for the first time at Lakshmi's house!
Why not celebrate the first anniversary of our memorable meet? I suggest any of these days, namely, 27th March, 28th March, 2nd April(Good Friday), 3rd April or 4th April.
Members please come out with your suggestions.
Yesterday, I gave an account of the colouring problems we encounter when creating patterns that can be drawn on a hexagonal grid. Today I am going to deal with the problems we face when colouring basically a square pattern. These are evident in the enclosed picture.
Many a time, I commented about symmetry and colouring on this site. In fact, it is possible that a few people might have got irritated with me and for the sake of politeness kept quiet. Today, I want to give some examples for keeping symmetry in tact while colouring. You can see in the accompanying picture four smaller pictures.
Under the starlit skies
when we were together
I looked at you
and I looked up at the moon
I looked at you
and I did not look up at the moon
Love engulfed me
Love engulfed us
and that was years ago
Today
under the same starlit skies
I looked up at the moon
and I looked at you
I looked up at the moon again
Thoughts engulfed me
ikolam is finding it hard to keep up with some of its highly enthusiatic members, whose rangolis run in double-digits, in the rangoli queue. In order to maintain some form of a balance in publishing all of our members' works, we would like to request the following busy bees to kindly postpone uploading more files until further notice. I can't tell you how uncomfortable this makes me feel. Please understand that, I'm posting such a request after having to deal with a few curt emails. 
Not a day goes by without working with you Photoshop!
Thank you Mr.Thomas Knoll.
Before we survived the 30 inch snowfall, the blizzard hit us, the fifth we experienced during our stay in this country. It was indeed ferocious. Imagine nearly 100 million people imprisoned for nearly 48 hours in their own homes at a stretch. Our county seems to be one of the worst hit in the area. It is not the snowfall, which too was considerable, more than 20 inches. It is the wind that blows the snow around causing drifts of four to five feet. On the highways where dozens of cars and trucks got stuck, the drifts were more than ten feet.
Following are considered the maximum human survival threshold:
3 minutes without air/oxygen
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
What is your threshold for surviving without rangolis?
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తూలికై tUlikai
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గాలితో తూలుతూ gAlitO tUlutU
