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Symbolic and imaginative...Nicely taken, OTW
thanx, you have a share (read as inspiration) in it...
Rita
this is India in our hearts...
dove
yes, what is needed most is to streamline them in the right direction...
that was the order of the pics when I published the post first. But there was an impulse from within me and I chaged the order (even though I did not have any reason for doing so).