Autumn Splendor...

I am not sure when October came and went by… I am taking things slow and putting my family, friends and health before everything! I know many have asked me the reason for absence of my blog posts, but it’s just that I feel that the compulsion to post recipes just for the sake of posting has never been my idea of blogging and I will post the recipes when an honest desire to breathe some life into this space takes over the lethargy! Although the number of posts may trickle down to just a handful, but please be assured that they will be something that I have loved cooking for my loved ones and you, my readers! I will try to post couple of recipes sitting pretty in archives whenever time permits.

I may have lost the appetite to photograph the food, albeit temporarily, but I have been enjoying taking my camera with me for my morning walks. I am sharing some of the photographs, from hundreds I had taken, of my most favourite season which I clicked through the month of October from the day the lush green leaves slowly changed colours to the brightest shades of yellows, reds, oranges, gold and rust… Autumn shows us how beautiful is it to let things go…

Summer Days...With Lil Dumpling!

Because it’s summer and the memories are just waiting to happen.
~ Unknown

So it's 10th day of my year long sabbatical and to tell you frankly, I have never been busier than this before! Few told me that they will expect me to post more recipes as I will have more time on hand to cook, photograph and blog the recipes! I just smiled and looked at my lil one who was sleeping in my arms, the only quiet in our home :) Once he is up, there is no way I get to do things I please ;)

Now after all these days, there is not a moment I can call my own. But I am not complaining! I feel blessed to wake up every morning and not worry about meeting project deadlines at work and other hundred things that revolves around work. I wake up with a smile on my face and look forward to spending many happy hours with Lil Dumpling. We colour, draw, learn our numbers and letters, talk non-stop about bugs, dinosaurs, go for long walks, play hide and seek, laugh more, sing songs, read stories, make our own stories, dance silly, cook together, talk a lot, make bubbles, splash water and create many happy memories! I am eternally thankful to get this chance to relive my childhood through Lil Dumpling.

One Sunny Weekend...

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

~ Henry James

Spring on Our Doorstep

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa

Spring is in full bloom and I had to share few snapshots of the season to celebrate the new beginning… Beautiful weather, vibrant colours and bees and people buzzing alike makes this season rather special…. So here are few photographs of the season from our doorsteps that brought so much joy to my heart!

Winter Wonderland!

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

~ J. B. Priestley

Delicious Autumn!

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~ George Eliot