Happiness unlimited with my new backyard patch -project... :)

“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
Immanuel Kant

Happiness unlimited with my new backyard patch -project... :)

Relaxing with lime tea and recipe books after an early morning bout of planting the first batch of saplings (Tulasi, chillies, cauliflower and a couple of flowering plants) in the backyard patch.

A new dream...

22 June, 2016

“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
Richard Bach

Not giving any details right now about this picture. Except that I have finally gathered enough courage to venture into monkey and bandicoot-land, aka the hittla/backyard and have a dream for this space too. And I am ready to work hard for it...

Am overjoyed with having completed step one. And now I'm raring to go with how many ever steps it takes to make one more of my green dreams come true...

Delight in the unexpected gifts of nature...

 “Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
Charles Dickens

And I couldn't be more delighted to find my broccoli sporting a handsome green head...

My lone broccoli. The only one from the twelve seedlings I had planted, that survived a bad bandicoot attack.

And there it is, my lone broccoli, happily ensconced in a merry melange of Pundi palle/rosella, hoovukosu/cauliflower, badnikaayi/brinjal, bhendikayi/okra and arishina/turmeric and some greens...  :)

Finding Magic in Life’s Unremarkable Moments...

Finding Magic in Life’s Unremarkable Moments

"The unremarkable becomes the screen against which the remarkable shines its luminous beam."
Mary Oliver
And in my little green patch right now, the very unassuming act of having scattered a few mustard seeds in the gaps between the flagstones, has taken on a supremely extraordinary, a magical quality... I didn't sow the seeds in anticipation of something big, but now, it is nothing short of a beautiful little miracle that is now unfolding around me...

The magic of rain...

Picture 1: The bhendikayi/okra seeds that I sowed this morning

Picture 2: The mixed greens seeds that I sowed yesterday morning

Picture 3: The saasvi/mustard seeds that I sowed this morning between the flagstones that line the path in my patch

Picture 4: And after last night's beautiful rain, the menthe beeja/fenugreek seeds ha ve germinated in a mere 24 hours !! And the other greens will follow suite in no time... And I am sure, the bhendikayi and other seeds I have sown this morning too will pop up very soon...

That folk's, is the magic of rain...

My little green patch, my haven...

O, money can't buy the delights of the glen,
Nor Poetry sing all its charms.
There's a solace and calm ne'er described by the pen
When we're folded within Nature's arms!
James Rigg

My little green patch, my haven.

And this time, I'll let the pictures do all the talking...