Sunset Burnt Embers at Canca, Verla, Parra, Bardez, Goa, India

Parra Tinto Geats a Facelift

Parra Tinto Gets a Face-lift 

Beautiful Parra Tintto - Work in progress

Remnants of the Season

Oh! Calcutaa

Holding a candle to the Moon

   

Holding a candle to the Moon

Parra - Goa - India

Parra Tinto - Roadworks in progress

Parra Tinto

 Roadworks in progress , but driver on break.

Morphing of the Cashew

Morphing of the Cashew

From Seed to Fruit

While the cashew plant is native to northeast Brazil, the Portuguese took it to Goa, India, between 1560 and 1565. From there it spread throughout Southeast Asia and eventually Africa.

Stethoscope - Doctor's constant companion

Chapel at Siolim on the banks of the Chapora River

Nossa Senhora de Piedade Chapel

Guddem - Siolim

The Breath-taking Howrah Bridge, Kolkata, India

Howrah Bridge, Kolkata, India 

            

Howrah Bridge is a cantilever bridge with a suspended span over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943. It is currently the sixth-longest bridge of its type in the world. It weathers the storms of the Bay of Bengal region, carrying a daily traffic of approximately 100,000 vehicles and possibly more than 150,000 pedestrians, easily making it the busiest cantilever bridge in the world. It was the third-longest cantilever bridge at the time of its construction.


On 14 June 1965 it was renamed Rabindra Setu after the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian and Asian Nobel laureate.

Full Moon At El-Kays Parra Bardez Goa

Indian Republic Day

Google Doodle Honours Indian Republic Day

Sunset on the banks of River Chapora

A Visit to My Village

A Visit to My Old Village

The Sojourn

An evening stroll
in my tiny old  village I took;

saw the old folks

once so young,

now so frail and weak.

Aged with time at nature’s quest

they stared at me in total disbelief;

they seem to think I too

have aged along with them perhaps

yet neither of us could fathom

what time and years

had done to us in tandem.

Stories we had to tell in plenty

of days gone by in time so lengthy,

and as evening turned to twilight

it was time for us to bid “boa noite.”

Since my last visit

many years had elapsed,

had promised myself

that some day in the future

I will once again meet

the folks who I had left behind

from times so sweet.

Tony Fernandes

Oh! To be in Goa, drink coconut water!

Oh! to be in Goa, drink coconut water! (Not grass water).

Tools of the Trade

Moonlight Sonata

'A Moonlight Sonata' 

 new moon from 'El-Kays' residence

 Parra Bardez Goa.

“We are all like the bright moon,
we still have our darker side.”
 ― Khalil Gibran

GOENCHI TAAN (A Quintain in Konkani)

A Quintain in Konkani

GOENCHI TAAN

by Tony Fernandes

Aikolo avem bhou vhodvikaien

Radio Mango-acher vachlolo

Ek jhelo utrancho,

Avem zo gunthlolo 

Dakounk mog khoro Goencho.

Sopon zaun khorem

Khoxen kalliz bhorlem mojem

Xekim paulom munn pollounk

Sobith sundor nazuk

Goa amchea mogachem.

TONFERNS - BUILT TO LAST

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016

Happy New Year - Auld Lang Syne

FOR AULD LANG SYNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHWJCzJfuw0

WISHING YOU ALL

A HAPPY, PEACEFUL & PROSPEROUS

NEW YEAR 2016

As we usher in the New Year 2016, let us hope for love, not hatred, and pray for Peace throughout the world, for those affected by war and natural disasters; pray for the sick, the bereaved, the injured, the afflicted and the poor.
We remember our folks who are far away from us; consider ourselves lucky to have our friends and family near us, and pray for those folks who are no longer with us today.
I am thankful for having had better life than the less fortunate than myself. I hope to cherish the happy memories I have had with my dear ones, and think of the good times we have shared in the happy times of yesteryear, and hope for a better 2016, with happiness, peace and prosperity for people throughout the world.

Christmas Wishes

May this Christmas Season

sparkle and shine,

for all mankind,

May peace and joy prevail

throughout the world,

free from war and crime,

May all of your wishes

and dreams come true,

And may you feel this happiness

all year through.

May the Force Be with You...and with Your Christmas Spirit!

The Glorious White Cross

 Pentecostal Church.

                                                                                 #pentecostal_church_mississauga_ontario_canada                                     

                

This simple magnificent gleaming white Cross seems to rise to the heavens. It can be seen in its serene beauty as one drives on the Queen Elizabeth Way across southern Mississauga in Ontario, Canada.

TonFerns Pyrography

Fair November

There are dark shadows on the earth,

but its lights are stronger in the contrast. - Charles Dickens


Fair November #signs_of_winter 

See this and other pictures in National Geographic Your Shot.                                                    

CN Tower