Wordless Wednesday

... welcoming Spring ... 

Delicious Italian Easter Breads

Italian Easter Breads in preparation...

and afterwards...

prepared with flour, eggs, butter and love 

and 

Dorothy's Bread Machine recipe of her Grammy's Italian Easter Bread.

If you are in search of that perfect bread machine recipe for Italian Easter Bread... then look no further.  Hop over to 

Shockingly Delicious and get started on your bread. 

Sending the first photograph to Black and White Wednesday, a photography event started by 

Susan of  The Well-Seasoned Cook, now organized by Cinzia of Cindystar and 

hosted this week by  The Well-Seasoned Cook.

Jamaican Banana Fritters...

Jamaican Banana Fritters. filled with the goodness of oats and banana, these fritters make the perfect breakfast bites. for the recipe hop over to Sumee's Culinary Bites and delight your family with milk and fritters at breakfast today...

Sending the photograph to Black and White Wednesday, a photography event started by 

Susan of  The Well-Seasoned Cook, now organized by Cinzia of Cindystar and 

hosted this week by Lynne of Cafe Lynnylu.

White Orchids....

 

 ......to add some beauty to your Tuesday !!

Have a nice day !!

Photograph taken by husband at  the Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show, Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh.

Life is full of interruptions and complications.....

and ... general opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed,
but I don't see that.

It seems to me that love is everywhere.....

 

Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there-

parents and kids,

....husbands and wives,   

boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends....

 When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love.

If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion...
love actually is all around.

the photographs:

• brother and me
• husband and me
• my mom and dad
• my dad with his youngest friend 
• mom and aunt
• friends from my graduate-years

updated with new images of us with our son on 6.11.2013

text quoted from Love Actually

Birdscapes...

Inspired by Pragya K's lovely birdscapes we tried to photograph some birds during our  trip to the Liberty Island, New York. i picniked our digital captures further and i am quite delighted with the outputs :))

i am contemplating framing at least one of them for the house. what do you think ?

This is all I bring today.......

   The skies can't keep their secrets

  They tell it to the hills-

  The hills just tell the orchards-

  And they the daffodils !

A bird, by chance, that goes that way

Soft overheard the whole.

If I should bribe the little bird,

Who knows what she would tell ?

                             

 -Emily Dickinson

                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                        the complete poem                                                                                                                          .

Just a picture today....

........  coz life surely does look pretty in snapshots..

      from an alley in Europe..... my dream holiday destination !!

The Puppeteer....

Though I have been meaning to write about my niece Shruti and our Dakshinachitra-picnic.... with so much work waiting to be attended to i can't seem to squeeze in enough time to touch up the photographs and write about everything we saw at the Heritage Cottage by the East Coast Road .... i am excited to share all about it with you and will do that as soon as i have enough time in hand .... till then feast your eyes on yet another glimpse of our day...

a scene from a puppet show that Shruti enjoyed.... and a photograph of the little puppeteer with his robust muscular puppet of Vanar Raj.....

a scene from a shadow puppet show we saw at Dakshinachitra....

the puppeteer with his puppet....

P.S: excuse the picture quality for  the mobile-camera found it extremely difficult to yield anything better with the puppets moving so fast...

ont une belle journée

photographs and stories of my nephew and nieces always make my day....

and so do photographs like this......

Have a lovely day !

[i had saved this photograph from a post at A CUP OF JO.... stumbled upon it yesterday while shuffling  the old folders.]