SPRING HAS COME & SPRING HAS GONE- but CLICK is here to stay!
The Click duo, Jai & Bee have got a beautiful theme going this month, CLICK: April 2009. (Spring/Autumn), and as usual, I’m racing. This post is not a foodie post. It’s just a SPRING post, posted a little sadly, because Spring disappeared quite a while ago. Currently we are in a ‘mercury rising’ situation, where the highs are around 43C, & hot summer winds are sweeping the Northern Indian plains! Another degree & they’ll declare it a heat-wave!! Whatever…
The first picture above is a guava flower from my dad’s little patch; a TI NY patch in his back yard, yet it’s amazingly fertile. He has a guava tree, a papaya tree, a curry leaves tree, a pomegranate tree & a lime tree all in one small patch ( about 6 X 6 ft) … & they are all in full bloom! There were over a 100 flowers, now turned into tiny guavas, & similarly for the poms! 
This last picture is my entry for CLICK: April 2009. (Spring/Autumn) @ Jugalbandi. Mulberries herald the beginning of Spring here, & are a constant source of fascination for me (as all berries are now). I can sit around mulberry trees for hours gathering this juicy berry. Used them for my Daring Bakers Cheesecake post, & also mentioned them as one of a clutch of Indian berries here!
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
23 Comments
noble pig
You have been clicking away with some very worthy specimens!
Parita
wonderful picture deeba..love all of them 🙂
Nachiketa
WOW!!!! lovely pictures…..
Loved the birds n the chilli plant…..
The mast head is looking very SPRIGYYYYY…. 🙂
Happy cook
Beautiful click. Last year when we went to Indianand ther was a nest in my moms kitchen veranda and shyama was so excited seeing it that every five minutes she was going there to look at it, in the end we had to tell her stop going there otherwise the brd won’t come back.
Núria
Your pictures always make my day!!!! How could I missed you for so long? Ahhhh a delicious taste of Indian Spring… lovely, fresh and tender 😀
How on earth can we compete with your pictures ;D
Simply Beautiful Deeba♥
Ricardo
Lovely pictures well done for sharing these. 🙂 xx Rico-Recipes
Kitchen Flavours
Nice said….Spring has come…..Nice click too…
Ivy
You have captured Spring in all its form. Lovely pictures Deeba and you made my day with those mulberries. We used to have a lot in Cyprus but didn’t know what they were called in English.
meeso
So many beautiful pictures… You are quite talented with the camera 🙂
Dragon
I’m always amazed by you talent. Wonderful photos!
Gloria
Dear Deeba you have the most beautiful pictures always I think my dear, all look beauty!!! xxxxGloria
slow-one
As a young one, I fondly remember two mullberry arbors we had on my friends property where I grew up.
Oh how I miss being young and those fond days…
Helene
I have admired your beautiful pictures. So nice.
coffeegrounded
If I want happiness, I visit here.
🙂
Thanks, Deeba. Your photo’s are spectacular and your father’s garden is amazing … 6 x 6….he is a MASTER gardener!
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
Deeba your photography is jaw droppingly beautiful! 😮
Juno
I am really intrigued by your mulberries because they are so long! Here in South Africa our mulberries are shorter and fatter. I spent the best years of my childhood up a mulberry tree and a purple-stained book!
Nicisme
Lovely Click!!
Vandana Rajesh
The pics look so good. Nature surely has a lot to offer. Love your cheesecake(have been wanting to make a cheescake for long now but cream cheese is not available here in India). Is it just curd hung overnight or is there some addition to it?
Natashya
Beautiful pictures! I have never seen mulberries before – they look just a little bit like caterpillars!
bee
you have such life and beauty in your garden. don’t robins have the prettiest blue eggs? thanks for the click entry.
Divya Vikram
All pictures scream SPRING!!
RecipeGirl
Wow, you’re sure good w/ your camera! All beautiful pictures! I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a Mulberry before.
Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella
That is an AMAZING job you did there Deeba. Bravo, you have reason to be so proud! It’s so gorgeous and original 🙂