Homebase

Friends playing minimum. A favorite afternoon cardgame.

The living room is empty as Dale and Maddy went to McCleodganj and others are playing cards, resting, or taking tabla lessons.

Our temporary home.

I am sitting on the back balcony looking up at the snowy peaks of the second fold of the Himalayas peak ove the foothills. Directly up the hill from me are terraced field where a cow or two or donkey occassionally graze. Some men above us are sitting in one of the level fields talking. Ah, it looks like as evening is deepening it might be time for them to head homeward. Yes, there they go. This small field is surrounded on two sides by an upper-middle class neighborhood. CCS is renting our house in this neighborhood. The house belongs to an official working in another city. Meanwhile, it is a great place to house all of us in one space.