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Summer Farewell Table...:):)

Setting a summer table for Kathleen's challenge with touches of summer palettes and elements for one last time, before the regimens of fall and winter days takes our focus, was fun.The colours Green,yellow,off whites with birds and bunnies on the table let us savour the memory of long summer days slipping into the shorter days of fall.Placing few yellow Daises in the pitcher gave the entire table a brighter look.Fried potatoes looked apt for an evening summer gathering.                                                                    Thank you for your Visit Please Visit Cuisine Kathleen

Crystal Grandeurs 100th post.Garden tour---Part 1

This is my 100th post at Crystal Grandeur with fifty thousand page views and indeed a special one, as I present here, our home garden and the cause for it. Plants have always been a part of our lives and our home. Every plant lover knows the joy of gardening and the great return it heaps. The person who puts in the hard work for the the garden to look green & fresh is my husband Mr. Pratap. His passion, love and hobby is gardening always. He has a green thumb, this passion runs in his blood as I have heard his father too had  love for gardening and had a huge fabulous garden with varieties of flowering plants and fruit bearing trees in their huge compound . Having been a Senior Executive in the Airline Industry (Air-India), my husband, yet, found the time for gardening. His first love is Bonsai and in the last 27 years, created more than 400 Bonsai trees  to his credit and has several masterpieces to his collection. Beside other reasons for his love for gardening, he feels