tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647128006518318342024-03-18T20:36:28.817-07:00Cherishing India.....Diary of my fond memories from India..as a 30-something, living in the USA for the last five years..I hope, it will be a nice stop over....Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-11611610739939729932017-06-18T01:06:00.000-07:002017-11-12T01:37:46.749-08:00Reminscing the village mud kitchen.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We had this mud-plastered kitchen in our village house.......<br />
On festivals o feasts, savories were prepared there........<br />
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Or for preparing foods like fish curries........<br />
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Sitting by the woodfire, and having conversation with my mother, helping her with preparing the snacks was one of my happy, nostalgic memories....<br />
When it rained the joy was higher.....</div>
Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-24479553443613750452017-06-05T01:28:00.000-07:002017-11-12T01:29:56.314-08:00Indian poverty............<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Extreme population and poverty is scourge of India.....</div>
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I saw this scenario in Howrah, Kolkata.....</div>
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People taking naps in the median of noisy, dusty, crowded road just outside teh busiest railway station.....</div>
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Now wonder, diseases like tuberculosis never go way from India.....</div>
Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-55220421518951712252017-05-30T01:23:00.000-07:002017-11-12T01:25:38.267-08:00Plum trees in Shillong.........<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Shillong in the northeast corner of India has a cold climate...<br />
Plums are abundant there.........<br />
Saw plum trees in the yards of almost every house......<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-81838495236559372017-05-15T01:22:00.000-07:002017-11-12T01:23:05.329-08:00Train travel memories.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While I was pursuing my PhD, I used travel a lot in trains....sometimes for 2 days continuously.....</div>
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To pass the time and monotony, I would carry fiction books with me......</div>
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Sometimes I would just watch the sceneries...<br />
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Or talk to people....</div>
Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-67561657533531290052017-05-03T01:12:00.000-07:002017-11-12T01:19:37.999-08:00Visiting Ramachandi........<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its Ramachandi.........a tourist place in Odisha...<br />
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I had visited with my spouse when we had just married....<br />
I remember the pleasant time by the bank, as we sipped tender coconut water, watching the water...<br />
We used to study a poem written about this place, as our our school curriculum...<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-60997091047144751312017-04-30T01:16:00.000-07:002017-11-12T01:16:41.602-08:00Hill top hiking in IIT Guwahati campus.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There was this beautiful hill in the campus in IIT Guwahati..........we used to hike up the hill sometimes.,</div>
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It was such a spring day......</div>
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Beautiful blooms.....</div>
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Shady nooks.....<br />
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Offering nice views......<br />
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I can still remember the lush freshness...the aromatics fragrance emanating from the vegetation.......</div>
Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-70494276582317439872017-04-10T23:55:00.000-07:002017-11-12T01:11:35.655-08:00At my first job place.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was the place of my first job...........Lovely Professional University, Punjab.....<br />
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It was my second visit to Shillong and Cherrapunjee......<br />
We stopped by the route......to appreciate cascades of pink cosmos.........it was autumn....<br />
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Its in Cherrapunjee....at a view point.....<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-5127576277842116622017-03-30T15:01:00.000-07:002017-03-30T15:01:09.729-07:00Mango blossom time..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mango blossom in one of our mango trees...</div>
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How I miss the fragrance? The tiny fruits...the tiny leaf hoppers will mob you, if you dare to reach near the tree..the spring frenzy!</div>
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-39360231132350132662017-03-14T21:48:00.000-07:002017-10-07T23:58:33.677-07:00Assamese vocabulary.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I lived in Guwahati for three years, during my study in IITG...picked a few Assamese words during that period..<br />
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Poita bhaat: Watered rice<br />
Bhoja: Fried<br />
Saru maas: Small fish<br />
Aloo pitik: Mashed Potato<br />
Dailor bor: Lentils Fritter<br />
Bota: Chutney<br />
Baah Gaajor Achar: Bamboo Shoot<br />
Bhut Jolokia: chilli<br />
Mitha Tel: Mustard Oil<br />
Nimokh: Salt<br />
Koni: boiled egg<br />
Aamor Achar: Mango pickle</div>
Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-21425663362053854472017-02-23T16:55:00.000-08:002017-10-07T23:58:06.641-07:00The suffering of widow old lady in our neighborhood...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Humans can be selfish beyond mention..</div>
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I remember this old widow in our neighborhood...</div>
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She was married to a landlord and had two daughters..</div>
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Unfortunately, her husband passed away young..</div>
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The greedy kith and kin of her husband's family grabbed her land and other properties within no time, thinking she had no sons..the wealth will ultimately go to other people...</div>
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In exchange of the lands, they agreed to give her meager yearly allowance of money and rise..</div>
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I had seen her misery..</div>
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While her tiny, dark, lone, corridor-like house was sandwiched by large , spacious, kid-filled houses of her husband's brothers....</div>
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I have visited her place a few times..no electricity....she would a simple meal by the evening and lit a kerosene-lamp...I wonder how her nights passed...</div>
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She lived on her own...for her daughters now married were housewives as well, and she is not welcome for more than months in their marital homes...</div>
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Her last days were particularly difficult...She was in her younger daughter's house..She got bed-ridden...even her lesions got worm-infected...</div>
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She died after long suffering..</div>
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I wonder, why destiny is particularly harsh on some while it favors some..</div>
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-809913194330675902017-02-13T13:52:00.000-08:002017-02-13T13:52:00.881-08:00Carambola flowers.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Most of we have seen and tasted the tart and fragrant exotic tropical fruits carambola..<br />
But, have you seen the blooms..<br />
They appear in late summer in India..<br />
Look like redbud flowers...in colors and shapes..<br />
Its clicked at my in-law's backyard..<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-57455814899119182652017-01-25T14:34:00.000-08:002017-01-25T14:34:11.431-08:00When I used to socialize more...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Time an duties have made me more confined..but, not long before, I used socialize...<br />
Some memories..all of these are from North East India..<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-54581512892972879742017-01-17T13:41:00.000-08:002017-01-17T13:41:01.276-08:00Reminiscing happy childhood.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I did not have luxurious childhood.............but sure had a happy, loving, stable one...</div>
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Among other joys...one joy was abundant and variety of foods...mostly fruits, nuts, tubers, veggies..</div>
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We had our own orchard and vegetable patch..with dozen varieties of produce..including those ever-present crunchy guavas..<br />
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Also, our relatives would there harvests like sugarcane, peanuts, peas, mushrooms etc...</div>
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The tribal ladies will fetch truffles and other forest products like honey, East Indian ebony fruits (locally called kendu)..charoli nuts (which were used for sweets)...</div>
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Myriad other wild fruits which I remember but can't tell their proper names....if only I knew them and can give them ttheir due popularity...</div>
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Village kids will roam on summer noons with basketful of plump date palm fruits...also palmyra palm fruits... sometimes, Spanish lime (mamoncillo/ kusum)..<br />
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Mother would dry the dates and kendu fruits and keep in clay pots, for us to enjoy in rainy season..<br />
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Village men would scour the ponds for water chestnut....we used to relish them raw or boiled...</div>
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In Dusshera times, custard apples were abundant....the sweet, fragrant flavor takes me down the memory lane..</div>
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I am sad to realize, most of the plants have been victims of over-exploitation...</div>
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Ignorant of their value, tribals have cut them for firewood and timber..</div>
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Overpopulation have ruined the world...</div>
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-37180745218780994032016-12-28T15:17:00.000-08:002016-12-28T15:17:05.279-08:00Kamakhya temple in Guwahahti...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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All ten forms of the Goddess such as Kali, Tara, Sodashi, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi and Kamala are worshiped here..</div>
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The dome of the main temple...you will find lots of white pigeons perched on the dark, bee-hive-like dome..</div>
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Sad, but these pigeons are kept for sacrifice...<br />
Even once I saw two severed goat kid heads, just near the sanctum sanctorum...<br />
Why don't people understand that no God likes killing..<br />
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Myself in front of a fig on the path to the temple...<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-4024621026068092352016-12-27T13:52:00.000-08:002016-12-27T13:52:00.200-08:00Innocent children...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our house maid's granddaughter.....<br />
Is not that face angelic? Brimming with innocence..<br />
While the grandmoter comes for dish claning and sweeping to our house, this little girl tags along..<br />
My mother gives her something to eat, as she sits and waits in one corner....<br />
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Rural kids at a the village Rath yatra..the carnival of the deity 'Jagannath'..buying toys, bangles, sweets..</div>
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-44365948888999338842016-12-26T12:41:00.000-08:002016-12-26T12:41:01.462-08:00Those innocent days of courtship.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My now-husband, then-boyfriend made this for me........</div>
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I retaliated............<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-24482649645597419642016-12-21T12:20:00.000-08:002016-12-21T12:20:02.517-08:00Poor, but happy kids...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Village kids, playing on the river shore, Sundargarh........<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-84092936420852459022016-12-20T13:40:00.000-08:002016-12-20T13:40:01.595-08:00Rangoli...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A rangoli...........<br />
Made of marigold petals, and colored rice......<br />
It was drawn at a puja pavilion....<br />
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Some more, made during festivities........<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-5569532188912569422016-12-18T13:40:00.000-08:002016-12-18T13:40:10.151-08:00Uddhav: The dog....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a semi-stray, semi-pet dog in my in-law's place in Odisha...<br />
A mutt...with good manners...non-neutered..<br />
It has got best of both words..<br />
It roams freely....while hungry comes to the house...my mother-in-law feeds him...<br />
When I met him many years back, he was young...now aging..<br />
Resting on the grass...<br />
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Leaning against the porch wall..<br />
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Morning stretching....<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-87873303738277519672016-12-17T11:51:00.000-08:002016-12-17T11:51:01.870-08:00Sugarcane fields in Ib river valley.........<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Sugarcane fields in river valley near my home in Sundargarh ..the tropical climate and alluvial soil provide the perfect conditions for luxuriant crop. The clumps of shoots are tied together to prevent the ravage of high wind. It is seer fun to wade your way through the rows of sugarcanes, break a mature stalk, peel the tough skin and savor the sweetness, as the juices go dripping down your elbows. </span></div>
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A windy, blustery, rainy day at Marina beach, Chennai..............<br />
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Its in 2007.....I has been to IIT Madras for a conference...<br />
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It was late December...a storm was brewing...<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-6663941451736393662016-11-28T13:11:00.000-08:002016-11-28T13:11:00.716-08:00Haboob, the sand storm.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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'Haboob' is a severe form of sand storm characteristic of arid regions of the world such as Middle East, South Western USA, Australia, Sahara in Africa........</div>
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Whether India has such phenomenon or not I am not sure.....</div>
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But, while I was studying in IIT Guwahati, sometimes sand storm will come...for days...</div>
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But, when I would exit it, the weather would smell fishy....</div>
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When I would enter my hostel room, sand can be felt everywhere...study table, bed, floor..</div>
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The computer mouse would squeak againt the pad....sleeping on the bed will cause itching...</div>
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I would clean the room.......and close all windows..</div>
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Next day, when would come...the room is gain covered in dust.......</div>
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The only opening to the outside was a small ventilator...</div>
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How, frustrating it was!.</div>
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And there are some kids who have to fend for themselves from as early as a year or so.....the difficult survival skills that I have seen during my train travels...........<br />
In Bokaro......</div>
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Somewhere in Bihar....scavenging from trash can...feeding on the discarded railway food...<br />
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In Meerut...a kid sells garlands before the temple..<br />
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It certainly is no place for a kid's play........<br />
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Seema Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521925836584966910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64712800651831834.post-72999757461725860932016-11-26T13:11:00.000-08:002016-11-26T13:11:07.321-08:00My Parents..........<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A portrait subsequently....moisture has almost ruined the beautiful picture...<br />
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A shot taken in the 80's....in front of our lush front yard...<br />
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In 2008.......in front of our rose apple tree......<br />
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In 2013......20-25 years later.....the baby is my nephew..<br />
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It is a blessing to grow old together.......</div>
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