Monday, January 18, 2010

PONGAL CELEBRATIONS AT HOME

The turmeric plant at our backyard in full bloom three months before



Harvest before the festival Bhogi



My daughter puts a kolam in the frontyard for the festival



Pongal paanai decorated with the harvested turmeric





Kanu festival

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23 comments:

  1. Pari VasishtMonday, January 18, 2010

    Wow. Everything looks so beautiful. You have celebrated it so elaborately..must be fun and lot of work. The aviyal looks perfect, I love to have it with rice and rasam.

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  2. Sushma MallyaMonday, January 18, 2010

    Lovely pictures..was nice viewing it...

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  3. RachanaMonday, January 18, 2010

    Wow!!! I love the beautiful pictures...never seen a pongal celebration...thanks for sharing the photos:)

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  4. Priya SureshMonday, January 18, 2010

    Very traditional pongal celebration, really miss everything here..

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  5. lata rajaMonday, January 18, 2010

    Excellent Shanthi! It is so good to celebrate with elders and dear ones.

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  6. TinaMonday, January 18, 2010

    Lovely clicks dear...

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  7. NithyaMonday, January 18, 2010

    A perfect celebration captures.. Looks fantastic. The kolam is amazing. Hats off to your daughter. Nice to see a very traditional post on the whole. :) Wish you a belated Happy pongal. :)

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  8. UnknownMonday, January 18, 2010

    Lovely celebration, the kolam is beautiful. Kudos to your daughter.

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  9. lubnakarim06Monday, January 18, 2010

    Nice to see celebration through pics....

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  10. Valarmathi SanjeevMonday, January 18, 2010

    Beautiful pics, lovely celebrations.

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  11. gtyukMonday, January 18, 2010

    that's so nice to share the pongal celebration!! I have the impression of almost being there :):)everything is so perfect and done traditionally!! so lovely with the home cultivated turmeric!!!

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  12. Anu NanduMonday, January 18, 2010

    WOwwwwww...love all the pictures - it feels like my home in salem - the kanu reminds me of what we all did at home. Love that you grew your own turmeric. And perfectly harvested it for Pongal.

    Unga ponny kolam rombha super. Loved it!

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  13. SimplyfoodMonday, January 18, 2010

    Its so lovely to see how the celebrations take place ,the rangolis are amazing.So beautiful.Thanks for dropping by my blog hope to see you again soon.

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  14. Gita JaishankarMonday, January 18, 2010

    Nice lovely pictures...pretty kolam too :) It has been 2 years since I put kolam for this season...I miss all the celebrations back in India.

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  15. AnuMonday, January 18, 2010

    Wow lovely pictures... Very traditional... Super kolam and pongal..

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  16. Saraswathi IyerMonday, January 18, 2010

    Nice and lovely pictures. I couldnot keep Kanu here. Kolam is excellent.

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  17. Rekha AMonday, January 18, 2010

    Wow So beautiful pictures... So big and colourful rangoli... Being in US most of us are missing the celebrations..

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  18. RohiniTuesday, January 19, 2010

    So beautiful...Loved the kolam and the traditional celebrations!! :)

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  19. RaksTuesday, January 19, 2010

    Became nostalgic seeing all these,my mom and MIL has same kind of vengala uruli ,still i dont own one..next year for sure!

    Kolam looks neat and nice :)

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  20. Sailaja DamodaranTuesday, January 19, 2010

    YOur festival is very inviting.....missing all the fun.

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  21. AnupamaTuesday, January 19, 2010

    This is so very traditional. I miss those days!

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  22. LifenSpiceFriday, January 22, 2010

    It was so nice to see the traditional pics. Loved the beautiful Kolam too:)

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  23. my kitchenMonday, January 25, 2010

    U celebrated traditionally like my mom,Beautiful kolam

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