असली बम लहरी,rain

Jogi ji, this is divinity, not singing. This is a complete quote. Unique. In this is the soul of the land of India.

Original Bam Lehri - Shri Bansi Jogi and Party, 1995, असली बम लहरी

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~ Muriel_Spark,Territorial Rights, 1979

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Rain today

Yesterday it was a bit of dim and dreary here in Hisar-the sky was grey, it rained in the evening only for 30 minutes, but  everything was a bit damp and horrid.

rain drops on my blooms 

Don't know why monsoon got angry for our city. It is raining in all the surrounding areas, but there is a draught -like situation here.

Rain! where are you!

 

So we haven’t had any rain for nearly a month,  except for a small downpour that lasted about 5 mins.  And then immediately ran off into gutters.  Plus we have had sweltering temperatures for weeks like much of the rest of the district. So it got very, very dry here. 

 

I’ve been doing my drip & mist watering thing with the my courtyard garden and the flowers so things haven’t died but they are stressed.. .a lot. 

 

I took a bunch of courtyard garden pictures a few days ago; I hope to share them with you by next Saturday. But I did start hearing the word “drought” from various weather folk around here and that’s BAD 

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Squash creeper in the PARK......, sis

Giant yellow squash

Yes! Its amazing Giant yellow Squash growing in our front  park from the Compost pile.It is huge!

Yellow squash flowers bloom

This is summer Squash .Yellow Squash flowers bloom on yellow summer squash. These flowers are not only beautiful to look at; they are functional as well. Both squash and yellow Squash flowers have been a nutritious part of the diet in many cultures for hundreds of years. 

You can eat squash flowers raw in salads or battered and fried. In Bangali families, squash blossoms are eaten stuffed in pakoras.

 I became nostalgic, wonderful huge plant with huge flowers. Iv remembered my childhood in the Jamnagar. Those garden squashes of our house garden. Bose aunt frequently asking for yellow squash blooms for pakoraas...the squash curry yammy with missi rotties in summer.I guess even the whole creeper is the same
terra cota bins at my sis's place
we were at my sis's place in Jind on 23/5/2013

clouds as seen from my front yard ion  May 12 it seems rain will come in the month of jaishtha....
something(proverbs about rain.

There are proverbs about distribution of rains during the year.

Four month do not need even a rain of gold (mid November to mid- December, chaitra(mid-March to mid-April),vaisakha(mid-April  to mid-May) and jyestha(mid-May to mid June). Except for these four months, rain is desirable in all the other months of the year.

For some unknown reason people except the monsoons to break over  Bombay by tenth of y June. The onset of winter rain is calculated as following a hundred days after the end of the summer monsoon.

Despite the summer rains being monsoon, it is the short winter rain that Haryanvi farmer prizes more.’ winter rain is gold, hadha (June -July) rains silver, and sawan-bhado (July-September), mere copper, says a proverb. ‘If there is a spell of rain in margasirsa(mid-November to mid-December) the wheat will have healthy colour. there are parallel proverbs instructing farmers what to do during winter monsoon months:’if you do not plough your land in hadha you will be like a dry swan and a child who learnt nothing to school.’ if it rains on Diwali (the festival of lamps that falls early in November) the sluggard will be more abundant.’

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