Photo Essay: Snow and Umbrellas
Like Cafe Dissensus on Facebook. Follow Cafe Dissensus on Twitter.
By Mosarrap H. Khan
I walked through the snow on my way to work. The soft snow flakes lent a calmness to my senses, almost inducing a dreamy stupor. A bright red umbrella blazed through the languorous landscape, erupting as an attractive woman, whose charms you could hardly escape.
I got to work and tried to settle down. But the red umbrella had already set my heart on fire. Like a man possessed, for the rest of the day, between smoke breaks at work, I chased men and women with colorful umbrellas. I trailed them, followed them, and stalked them. In the process, I realized how fast men and women walk when it snows, without realizing the beauty of a snowy day.
What follows is an amateur effort at capturing the colors that punctuate the white snow.
Like Cafe Dissensus on Facebook. Follow Cafe Dissensus on Twitter.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday is the blog of Cafe Dissensus magazine, based in New York City, USA. All materials on the site are protected under Creative Commons License.
***
Read the latest issues of Cafe Dissensus Magazine on Short Stories, themed around ‘Night’, edited by author, Sumana Roy.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 
7 Responses to “Photo Essay: Snow and Umbrellas”
Beautifully written and captured.
Thank you very much, Bhaswati!
Shows how fruitful a simple theme can be! Also reminds me of my days growing up in NYC, searching for color in the slush just like you 🙂
Thank you, Joyce! You must come back to NYC to relive your childhood.
I try to make it once a year and always stay with a friend in Chelsea, not far at all from where you took these photos. These streets inspired my first poetry at the age of 17 – a series called The Bus Poems.
That sounds wonderful! When you visit next, we must meet up, if I’m around at the time…
For sure.