holi

Grab your white clothes, your gulal and get ready to party.

Wet weather turned Holi's colored powders into paint.

Thousands of revelers got color bombed on Sunday, in keeping with Hindu tradition.

The most colorful festivals in NYC.

Thousands gathered in Brooklyn to listen to music and throw colored powder!

Have colored powders, will throw them at people.

Winter, get outta here!

There's a good reason why Hindu celebration Phagwah, aka Holi, is known as a 'festival of colors,' as you can see in the gorgeous portraits above of many of the revelers in Richmond Hill, Queens.

Our photographer tells us, "A kid poured baby powder down the back of my shirt" and then "his mother smeared my face" with powder.

Flickr user ennuipoet Yesterday, Hindus (and fans of fun spring parties)