09 Friday Sep 2011
Posted in Foto Friday
Happy Onam!
A floral carpet
of multi-hued petals
meticulously laid
in intricate patterns.
A labor of love
to welcome home
Mahabali,
king of yore
still living on in hearts
as more than just a lore.
– Shail Mohan (Sept 2011)
Incidentally, this pookkalam or floral pattern won the second place in the Keraleeyam Onappookkalam competition for the team of which my sis in law was a part.
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Happy Onam Shail 🙂
@Nivedita,
Thanks Nivs 🙂
Did you put it Shail aunty?????????????
@Swathi,
Arrey read na! 😛 My sis in law was part of the team, not me. 🙂 This is from Ghaziabad.
@Shail, oops i seem to ignore the italics note. hope you had a great Onam..
Happy Oonam Shail !
@Ruchira,
Thanks Ruchira 🙂
Happy Onam Shail. Getting to spend Onam in my hometown after ages. My niece and I manged to make a pookkalam with the flowers and leaves in my sister’s garden. Loved it:-)
@Nadira,
Ahhh lovely 🙂 Thank you. Hope you enjoyed your time at hometown immensely 🙂
Beautiful Pookkalam Shail. When I was doing my post-grad, we used to celebrate Onam in college by making pookkalam and payasam 🙂
Here’s a tiny snap of the one we had made :- http://momofrs.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/those-were-the-days/
(okay, so we had professional keralite seniors who did the actual work….but chopping petals throughout the night wasn’t all that easy either 😀 )
Also, Happy Onam to you and your family 🙂
@MomOfRS,
That looked such a lovely one Noorulayn. Enjoyed reading your post 😀
Thank you so much for the wishes 🙂
Happy Onam To you and everyone at home and around you .. Especially the Cats 🙂
@bikram,
Haha, I loved that about the cats 😀 Thank you Biks 🙂
Happy Onam Shail:):)
@Kala,
Thank you Kala 🙂
Happy Onam Shail!
@Agnija Bharathi,
Thank you. How was yours? 🙂
Happy Onam, Shail! The pookalam is beautiful!
@Sandhya,
Thank you on both counts Sandhya 🙂
HAPPY ONAM!! beautiful flower rangoli!!!
@Devika,
Thank you for the wishes 🙂
Uh-oh. I thought I had left a comment.
The pookkalam is perfect. The neatness and the creativity… just beautiful!
And the verse, a perfect complement. I love the optimism in the entire post 🙂
@Usha,
Thank you. And you bring a spark of optimism when you visit my blog. Always, without fail 🙂
B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L pookalam!
@Deeps,
Thank you. You can imagine the effort that went into it 🙂
Gorgeous and most deserving!!! Congrats to your sis in law.
And Happy Onam once again 🙂
@indianhomemaker,
Thank you. She says she was more of carter-of-flowers, cutter-of-petals, booster-of-morale and such 🙂
All important roles, I’m sure. It’s beautiful. Thank you for visiting my page.
Thank you 🙂