Photo wisps - A few pearls

It is very hard to explain my fondness for Kolkata. I have never seen or been to anywhere like it....but I know there are places that can beat this place ...in a more economically dark and destitute way.
 As a travel destination it's intoxicatingly fascinating.  Each day I ventured out aroused more curiosity to energize the next adventure.
  It is a very tired, crusty, worn down, rugged textured, dirt poor city with a smattering of sparlkles.   Like an oyster - pretty ugly on the outside sheltering an occasional lustrous pearl.
  The gems are far out numbered by the crust...but I found a few.
  Topped by Al and Buju's wedding. -

A colorful event shining in energy and light rich with colors and delight inside a facility that sheltered the gem from the crusty KolkataI'm streets.

Note the lovely traditional flower decorations - they can be purchased at the flower market

Every day flower vendors are at work at the flower market stringing thousands of marigold and other flower buds to make miles and miles of living decorations.

The  New Market is a beehive, buzzing with buyers and sellers creating it's own unique din and

hard to escape without buying something

 or seeing something with its own unique character

And my friends know how to have a rock'in  party at the Kolkata Rowing Club

Most of us were feasting on Chinese food - cooked by Indian chefs with their own spice racks - while the energetic crowd tore up the dance floor.

The city looks so different at night as darkness masks the crust and lights on all types add a nighttime glow that softens all the real hard edges here

There are plenty dark crusty images - well get to that vapor trail soon