Happy Earth Day 2026 !! Spring set in early in the mountain west of the US this year, and trees and bulbs started blooming weeks before they usually do. And then there was a snow storm and seasons collided. This tulip in my backyard with its snow cover caught my attention to the beauty, fragility […]
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Equinox, is a cyclic event and marks an exact moment when the Sun passes through the plane of Earth’s equator, and the earth’s axis is positioned such that it’s neither tilting toward nor away from the Sun, rendering the alignments to result in almost equal lengths of day and night times for the entire planet.
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An oil painting of Venice, I painted a few years back and titled it Reflections on water. A ‘floating city’ with its meandering waterways and the gondolas, Venice has captivated my imagination since I was a child. I first learnt about Venice, about a city built on water, in my geography class. Venice and its
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As we turn our clocks back today for Daylight saving time in most parts of the United States, I got to thinking about another kind of seasonal natural rhythm. That of plants keeping their ‘promise to bloom’ after long cold winter months, and the migratory birds keeping their ‘promise to return’ every spring in the
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