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Linking today to Monday Mellow Yellow and One Single Expression

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One Squash

...Even though most people identify squash with vegetables, from a botanical standpoint, they're considered fruits because they contain the seeds of the plant. Squash along with corn and beans, are believed to have originated in Mexico and Central America where they were eaten 7,500 years ago. American Indians shared many varieties of squash with the European settlers, who took the seeds back to their countries. Today, squash and pumpkins are grown all over the world, and are wildly popular in many Eastern European countries...

...Every part of the squash plant can be eaten, including the leaves and tender shoots, which can be cooked in omelets or made into soup...

click here for a squash blossom recipe

...In a queer little bamboo house in front of a big garden lived a man and his wife all alone. They had always been kind and good to everyone, but still they were not happy, because the child for which they longed had never come to them. Each day for many years they had prayed for a son or a daughter, but their prayers had been unanswered. Now that they were growing old they believed that they must always live alone.In the garden near their house this couple grew fine white squash...
click to read the whole Philippine tale of 'The White Squash'

Today's Sunshine

Stack of Books

the title of this post has been changed from 'Book Pile' to 'Stack of Books'

From

Divali 2011

version 2


version 1

Shubh Divali

Renku Saturday 3

Inspiration for this haiku and image

evening church bells
pink clouds merge
into sunset
--(haiku and digital painting) © gillena cox


From

evening cherry blossoms
to the prayer gong's beat
scatter
--Issa, 1813

revisit Renku Saturday 2

Rain Storm

Early Morning

Rain Accompaniment

Shaft of Sunlight

Holy Week

read more here...(John 13:34-35): A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you...by this everyone will know that you are my disciples...

Window View

Looking

Downpour

Rainy Monday

music video; listen and enjoy before you leave
the blues read more

Labour Day

T&T holiday Labour Day
Julia Butterflies
send a free ixora e-greeting

Sun Rising

Clear

this was the mood out in theWestern Main Road in 2006 after our 'Soca Warriors' qualified to go to Germay

CLICK 'Western Main Road 2006' above