Hey Amazing People!
Hope and pray that life is beautiful at your part of land and temps are dropping form shivering point(hopefully) .
I bet your heart is listening the voice of spring which is moving on her tiptoes towards your gardens :)
Hope in parts of land where are summers now days weather is start to be pleasant and chilly !
Here in Pakistan where i live (southern part of the country) weather has changed almost suddenly .We took off our sweaters and jackets inevitably as we wish winter could stay little longer because our summers are SCARY!
50 plus celsius remember?
Since few days i was little out of my routine as we received invitation for child(boy) 's Sunnat ceremony .I don't know about other religions but in our religion (islam) each boy child has to pass trough this tradition .I don't know either how to explaining this to you .But i can tell that most of people here celebrate this like huge ceremony and family and friends are invited to participate Child gets gifts and people who attend ceremony are served best food and musical programs .
My whole in laws family had left to attend this ceremony two days ago , but like always i avoided the most noisy and crowded part of ceremony and went on last day just to participate the calmer part in which families sit and chat with served food and then tea and refreshments later before they leave.
I know this sounds quite rude to not attend the main event but luckily after almost 26 years my in laws know me better now and they know that such functions don't belong to me anymore as in youth i enjoyed them though but in this age i can't stand them so i am forgiven for my delay on such occasions.
I like final day of ceremony when people get tired of singing and dancing and sit after turning of the high volume of music and exchange their thoughts and views with each other .I like specially when people ask questions about each other's well being and how they doing ?
what is going on in their lives.
Because i go in such gatherings after long times so such conversations seem interesting to me .Either i take part in them and get involved with their all kinds of topic to make them feel that i am not different then them as they think often (because i am from northern part of country totally different from herein many aspects)
In such events sitting arrangements for gents and ladies are separated . The child who went through this was son of my one of daughter of my husband's eldest brother .I spent two hours there and enjoyed my time with my few sister in laws (sisters and wives of hubby's brothers)
I drop gifts and some money as gift to mother of child .This was sunny and breezy day and i managed to take some photos while driving home to share with you .
we left for this village at 1pm
both sides of road were embellished with date tree gardens
these one i took when we were returning home before sunset almost 5pm
i found these huge grass lace beside the road interesting
this one is also at returning time ,water of canal looked serene and appealing!
this one is taken by my youngest son who always love chasing these goats and chickens whenever he visits there
beautiful girl in brown dress is the grand daughter of my aunt (father's sister) holding her own son
this is wife of hubby's brother ,she was trying to keep her eyes open as they sang and danced whole previous night together
youngest sister of my husband who is married in same village ,she is teacher in primary school in village (we spent 1 hour at her home)
another wife of of one of brother in law who has retired from army two years back she is 15 years younger then her husband with 5 children
on right my elder sister in law with her daughter who is married and have three children
(with her newly born baby boy) you can notice her heavy gold jewelry which is permanent part of getting ready for any ceremony here .
I too have light set which i wear to be familiar in such environment.
this photo is taken by my youngest son while i started to get ready for leaving for village .
this is all for today ,hope you liked the very different environment in these images where life still is quite backward yet peaceful .
please take great care friends!
stay strong as you are and love you creator ,love yourself and all around you including your own loved ones!
God Bless You ALL!!!