tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27775053985440211052024-02-20T10:28:23.103-05:00My Ginseng KamandaluDescription of short travels around, and away from my suburban nest...and the longer ones towards the sub-continent...and then some.?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-40352152151761736292011-07-25T13:56:00.003-04:002013-08-02T09:42:00.728-04:00Evening Aarti at Pashupatinath...
Evening Arati during Sravan month, for the river Bagmati at Pashupatinath Temple Ghats.
This graceful co-ordinated ritual conducted by a group-3 or 5- of young priests, pays homage to the river Bagmati everyday without fail.
It is conducted from across the Pashupatinath temple, high up on the stone-paved terrace across the river, and near the steps to the temple, burning pyres on the ?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-69612928356908054122011-06-25T00:25:00.000-04:002011-06-25T00:25:49.485-04:00Monsoon in India, 2011
Home...Our arrival a couple of weeks ago coincided with the monsoon. For privileged people like us, in terms of a safe and dry haven, watching the monsoon, getting drenched by choice and viewing the monsoon through the lens of nostalgia and old window bars, cozy on a bedroll, with books by the side and hot food... it is a different reality.
Flowering shrubs against the&?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-85704787089830247022011-03-26T12:55:00.000-04:002011-03-26T12:55:41.007-04:00Spring
Cherry Tree at the Japanese Garden, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.This weekend, the National Cherry Blossom Festival is taking place in Washington DC. IT has been a mixed feeling, viewing the cherry blossoms season here. In between the historic events worldwide and the tragedy in Japan, the delicate pink blossoms came and gave way to leaves of different hues! The Kwanzan Cherry blossoms will ?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-49714751228129254182010-08-10T22:28:00.001-04:002010-08-10T22:45:26.592-04:00Stormclouds in August...After thumbing our noses at this type of entertainment for all our lives, we finally packed our bags....
and reached here under the gathering storm....To sample some Butterbeer and goodies.?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-83510568685894017212010-07-31T08:30:00.000-04:002010-07-31T08:30:44.263-04:00Summer thunderstorms and Jasmine
For a heartbeat, one was back during the Southwest monsoons: the smell of rain and wet earth and trees.The jasmine bush on our deck from April through July in its second bloom.?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-22118942421816655342010-07-13T08:32:00.001-04:002010-07-13T08:38:06.472-04:00Coneflowers and Lilies...An Hybrid variety of Echinacea but gorgeous gorgeous shade of pink!Loved them on the weathered blue gray of our deck but it would soon be transplanted.Had to move them to the shade during the 3 digit temperatures during the last week; the buds were getting burnt!?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-78203677674631006302010-06-30T09:29:00.001-04:002010-06-30T09:30:00.366-04:00PortulacaPortulaca on my weathered old blue deck.This has been prolific over the past few weeks in shades of Rani Pink, Golden Yellows, White and shades of all.....?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-67348331018023670122010-05-25T09:58:00.000-04:002010-05-25T09:58:09.002-04:00Wild Strawberries...
And who plucked the rest of them....?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-56513408341513783922010-05-16T17:33:00.001-04:002010-05-16T17:34:18.802-04:00Gardening..Early morning finds in the backyard...strange unmoving deadly beauties....
Have to find out what they are...?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-48166650906108035632010-05-06T22:08:00.009-04:002010-05-07T17:03:17.692-04:00Frabel's Beauties at GinterHans Godo Frabel's art displayed in the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Conservatory.
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-79644246890280504242010-05-03T23:32:00.006-04:002010-05-06T21:53:22.270-04:00Spring: Bearded Iris
The Bearded Iris clumps started in profusion last week and bent down with the weight of the blossoms: blue's, brown's and yellow's...?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-57594846732450527792010-04-19T22:19:00.017-04:002010-04-19T22:31:22.814-04:00Lewis Ginter: Spring 2010....
Tulips at Lewis Ginter.?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-89648135389641322112010-04-19T20:26:00.021-04:002010-05-03T23:57:45.956-04:00Early Spring:Our neighbour's Kwanzan Cherry blossoms...always happy to share!A little late in posting these early spring beauties; no tinkering with any software in these snapshots!Remember the day as being cloudy.?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-11810857947920655992010-04-10T16:10:00.000-04:002010-04-10T16:10:26.913-04:00Conservatory at Longwood Gardens, PhiladelphiaLook the flowers came onto my dress!
An old but ever fresh, fragrance and memory from childhood...?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-56412864607631877502010-04-08T23:28:00.000-04:002010-04-08T23:28:05.569-04:00India in Philadelphia...?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-72435637210479371612010-04-08T00:12:00.002-04:002010-04-08T07:11:25.614-04:00Longwood Gardens, PhiladelphiaLongwood Gardens, PhiladelphiaCherry Blossoms at Longwood.
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-91648596285608290802010-04-05T22:52:00.008-04:002010-04-08T21:04:59.990-04:00Cherry blossoms, Washington DCCherry blossoms on Ohio Drive across The Wharf at Washington DC with a tiny speck of a helicopter, like a persistent fly in the photo!
We just missed the all-white cherry blossom exuberance over the sunny weekend at DC. Were fortunate to find a parking spot right across a few trees with an almost-all-pink/white blossom-burst...the others had donned the green and looked beautiful but ?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-243361539320238292010-01-07T08:14:00.000-05:002010-01-07T08:14:21.938-05:00Terracotta Warriors: Gaurdians of China's First Emperor
The fact that Mao Zedong loved Qin Shihuangdi and not Confucious, helped us see models of this army miles across the oceans!
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-8098678896836852482009-12-22T10:32:00.000-05:002009-12-22T10:32:08.531-05:00Comfort...Jewels on a snowy day.....
...And the comfort of tea!
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-39020114476699044182009-11-25T10:32:00.001-05:002010-01-12T07:34:01.783-05:00A tiny window from across the oceans... A temple pond among the green fields, somewhere in the foothills of the Kolakkadan Hills, Palakkad, November 22, 2009.
Image Courtsey: CCT
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-44569905896769413832009-11-15T10:51:00.018-05:002009-11-15T11:33:18.109-05:00Morning Walk...
Fallen Leaves
The Leaf that fell in front...
Rows...
Fall Colors ...
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-65022760058784273692009-10-30T16:27:00.013-04:002009-10-31T19:28:45.975-04:00Route 60
The Apple Lady
in Route 60 had gone to sell apples and produce at the Powhatan Fairgrounds.
The Lady's cheerful husband was on hand!
More on The Tiffin Carrier Antic/que!
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-30032653474902909322009-10-26T07:28:00.003-04:002009-11-15T20:11:14.086-05:00National Zoo, Washington DCFall in the National Zoo!
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-87889364833529116962009-10-25T18:44:00.001-04:002009-10-25T20:21:56.065-04:00Fall Festival of Arts, DC: Leela Samson
Exquisite and graceful!
?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777505398544021105.post-22477334049771143042009-10-23T09:16:00.065-04:002009-11-04T08:17:01.521-05:00Fall festival of Indian Arts in DC: Alarmel ValliAlarmel Valli, acclaimed Bharatanatyam artiste and proponent of the Pandanallur style tonight :
Friday October 23 at 7:30 pm
Lincoln Theatre
1215 U Street NW
Washington D C
http://www.dakshina.org/2009/08/19/allarmel-valli/
More details on the website and post performance reviews later tonight or tomorrow morning!
:-)
October 24, 2009
Beautiful!
the programme ended past 10 pm...the ?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05327527822936233398noreply@blogger.com0