spring onion!

spring onion

my Chinese friend who lives across the street gave me 3-4 spring onion from her garden in sep o9 and warned me not to plant in the ground just plant them in a container since they spread a lot, but i didn't listen to her and planted them in the ground and now i harvested them since i am loosing place in my tiny patch and i have to remove them and replant them in the container just like she told me!

 new bulbs to plant
these are the new ones coming on top of the mature spring onion, what i have to do is separate them and plant them again. isn't that easy!

but the crop is great, i get rid of mature green but kept the fresh greens, onion bulbs and new bulbs to plant.
 now i have to look for recipes that i can use all of these fresh and healthy looking greens and onion bulbs. yey!

Recognition

Like everybody else I am taking pictures for a long time but never interested to share them to public in flickr, after i started blogging i put some interesting photos in flickr and in April i received a mail from

Subject: Schmap: Chicago Photo Short-list
Date: 14th April, 2010
Hi migration musings,
I am writing to let you know that one of your photos has been short-listed for inclusion in the eleventh edition of our Schmap Chicago Guide, to be published early May 2010.
http://www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=27188631N08/c=SO2015954
Best regards,
Claire Evans
Editor, Schmap Guides
www.schmap.me/claire.evans

After reading this i really don't get what this is all about, i was

thinking like, i am not going to loose any or gain any so i

submitted the photo and forget about it.

recently i received the mail again,

Subject: Schmap Chicago Eleventh Edition: Photo Inclusion
Date: 14th May, 2010
Hi migration musings,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released eleventh edition of our Schmap Chicago Guide:
Navy Pier
http://www.schmap.com/chicago/tours_tour5/p=10712/i=10712_175.jpg

some incidents are so funny and unexpected, even though 

I don't gain anything from this, i take the recognition as

simply as encouragement of what i love to do. 
 
 

 

Nature-al parenting

Nature at work
these cute Canadian goose couple are so busy now a days.
they are new parents!
mom and dad goose teaching everything what those cute goslings supposed to learn!
every minute they are protecting and keeping an eye on babies, don't even dare to go near them while they are parenting.
fun to watch from my kitchen table. 

parents visit

They are here!

both of them are adjusting very well of the new surroundings.

Nanna is observing my lifestyle for the first time,

I left his house 14 years ago as a bride, visited him every two years but never had enough time to sit and talk in those visits, with long list of to do things and visiting relatives it's always hectic.  mom is busy cooking and dad is busy doing his work.

so here they are, just for a change
 in my world and sweet home. 

They are asking millions of innocent questions of how things work from faucet to American system of law!

what not, anything they see there is a question.

so much curiosity and observation.

wondered and amazed by the quietness of my surroundings,

ducks in the lake, lawns in America and how much time, water, energy especially money wasted for that grass. 

schools, drain systems, cars and roads, trees and landscaping, 

heating and cooling systems, markets and price comparisons,

food and packaging, the fact that they didn't smell anything even though they are in meat market!
they like every inch of it.

suddenly nanna asks, where are the people! i can see only cars, but where are the people!!

My kids overwhelmed by the fact that grand parents visited them, so they could share the stories just like there friends sharing with them.

showing off everything and try to adjust, forgiving ammamma's constant criticism and comments. 

  

my husband is in ecstasy because i am controlling my temper towards him and the company of my father.

for me nothing changed so far, at the same time everything changed.

 

welcome to the otherside

To day a man's dream is going to come true!
my mom and dad are coming to visit us! 
mom visited once but this is my dad's first international travel. i bet he is so excited but never expressed it.

Never prayed this hard in my life, 
for his safe journey from Bangalore India to Cleveland, Ohio. 

None is going to touch his dreams to shatter, None....bird, volcanic dust from Iceland, dopey pilots, maniacal terrorists, tired airport staff, flight food, immigration, security, gruesome travel for 22 hours sitting way up 34,000 feet in the air, confusing time zones, jet lag, sudden adoption of deviant land.
mighty transformation in 24 hours!!
i can't wait to welcome him to this side of the earth.

hard to be patience

 being patience For me, is one of the toughest things to do! it's a struggle to except the fact that things don't go the way I planned. i simply can't take it. Nature is being just what it suppose to be. raining, windy, cold, hot, sun and moon are doing their jobs, plants are waiting so patiently to go outside......wait! plants are not waiting they are growing perfectly fine in the pots where i plant them, they actually don't know weather they are outside or inside so they are fine. 

problem is ME, and my mind. 

i am keep bugging myself why Cleveland weather is contently changing and didn't let me plant my plants outside:(

about week ago temperature is 75 degrees and i quickly clean the beds and ready to plant and today 41 and sooo damn cold. 

 i learned very important lesson that no matter what, i am not supposed to think about planting Indian veggies outside in the beds until May last week!

 i don't think it works but i have to train my mind for that.
people who know me would say yeh! right! 

 

First Spring Harvest

First harvest of Methi (fenugreek leaves)

never fails to show up and great health benefits as green veggie.

the seeds i sow directly outside(spinach, carrot, beetroot, cauliflower) showing up one by one .
so excited, weather is so beautiful, 72 F sunny and warm but i am not falling for this weather or neither getting confidence to transplant my seedlings out yet.
i will wait one more week.