Through Picture: Holi: Color in the air

Holi is also called the Spring Festival - as it marks the arrival of spring[1], the season of hope and joy.

The gloom of the winter goes away
as Holi [2] promises of bright ..

earth-spring-equinox-from-spacepicture: LiveScience
21st March 2013

Perhaps 'Flame of the forest' (Butea monosperma)
are the tree who announce this change so vociferously
in Indian sky onto their canopy cover
and the rest of the flora follows..!!

pic courtesy: http://animikha.wordpress.com/

This change in the air, perceived by plants,
expressed through colors so vibrant
that human too followed to isolate beautiful colors
from Butea and sprinkle it all around
to their human-fellows with the drum beat and songs!!

pic courtesy: http://www.gardenworld.in/cfd30327e_butea.html

With the first full moon of spring time, India lights its bonfires and pours on color..

Women praying at the bonfire on the eve of Holi festival

pic courtesy: The Hindu, Photo: Mohammed. Yousuf

Originally, powdered colors thrown were made from medicinal herbs to prevent viral colds during the changing of the seasons. Today, the color is a symbol, and participants at the festival smeared powder on one another, threw it in the air,

Indian myth and mythology
is full of this 'color spirit in the air'
and lot are the folklore of vivid characters
still remembered all across it's huge boundaries.

Following are some human
imaginative-expression immortalized
by painters of different times ..
through color and brush;
which are still live in the memories of Indians;