Spring is in the air! In many Indian cultures April 14 and 15 marks the start of the New Year. This is the time when farmers in India prepare their fields ready for the planting season.
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Spring Veggie Seedlings 🌿
Hello and Happy Monday! How was your Easter weekend? Good? Relaxing? Spring is in full swing around here. Warm temps, sunshine, trees all green and flowers bursting into bloom 🌺. It’s such a beautiful time of year I wonder why the calendar doesn’t start in April instead of January?
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March in the Garden. Spring has Arrived
Hello and Happy Friday! I hope you had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend. Around here spring has arrived with warmer temperatures and lots of sunshine. Trees have started sprouting and flowers started blooming. Here’s a look at my garden in March.
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March in Sonoma Wine Country
We headed to Sonoma wine country last week for a couple of days and it was absolutely beautiful. Quiet, calm and peaceful with amazing weather, surrounded by the beauty of wine country. A perfect two days in Sonoma.
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Friday Flowers. February in the Garden 2025 First Signs of Spring
Hello! How has your February been? Good? Around here we’ve had storms, cold temps, and spring like weather all within a month. Our recent sunny warm temperatures felt like spring is fast approaching, with colorful blooms bursting open here and there in the garden.
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Christmas 2024 Holiday Craft Project
Hello! Happy week before Christmas! I hope you’re having a great week leading up to Christmas Eve and Christmas next week. I’ve been busy meeting with friends and family trying to cram in seeing as many as I can before the new year. Speaking of family time, our daughter Sridevi had us over for another year of holiday craft project. This year we graduated to a more sophisticated art project 😃🎄🖌.
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Happy Post Thanksgiving Week & Happy December!
Hello! Happy Monday after Thanksgiving! I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving celebration. It’s the start of December and time to get into the holiday spirit 🎄😃. I do love this time of year, holiday joy can be seen everywhere ❤️.
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Navratri Lunch with Girlfriends 💕
Hello and Happy Tuesday! How was your weekend? I hope your new week started off great! Last week was the start of the Indian fall festival of Navratri – a nine-day festival celebrating the divine Goddess in all of us.
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Dinner and Candles with Parag and Pallavi & Evening of Hors d’Oeuvres with Sheila and Mark
Hello and happy new week! I hope you had a good weekend and are looking forward to the week ahead! Our weekend was nice and relaxing with casual dinners with friends, a chance to catch up and talk for hours 🥰.
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Dad’s 90th Birthday Celebration 🎂🎉
Hello and Happy Weekend! Today I wanted to share pics of my Dad’s 90th birthday party that we surprised him with last weekend. My sister even flew in from Philly to surprise him ❤️ . Dad had a blast!
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