Summer is back ! what a lovely sight to see the mango trees outside my window bursting with blossoms all waiting to" grow-up". Some have already turned over into tiny mangoes and some big mangoes.
On our morning walks have seen a jackfruit laden with TINY jackfruits, tiny as in comparision with the size of the fully grown up jack. The birds cannot decide which fruit platter to choose from, will it be this or that, must be their state of mind in summer everytree is showing off, the jambuls are there up too, when the tree is too tired to hold up sooo many ... there they go all over the pavements, streaking it, with a lovely royal purple. The targula will arrive shortly and a corner on the street where I live has this vendor bringing the delicious targula directly from the tree breaks the nut and there for all to see the lovely sweet kernel a smaller version of the coconut.
The watermelons have been around for most part of the year, not the big round variety but the tiny oblong ones, which are crisp and sweet, I still prefer the huge round watermelons.
The grand entry will be made by none other than the KING, of all fruits, at the wholesale market we will see trucks unloading huge baskets and not so huge boxes, and then for us truly summer has arrived...

On certain days, the parent/guardian is permitted to come to see their child, at the orphanage in the vicinity where I live. It is an all boys home and maybe housing around 200 boys of all ages the biggest being in class 10th the littles ones who are so kindly housed here are a treat to behold, they are so little the tiniest maybe in the range of five/six years cannot really place a finger on the right age, however they are a lesson for us to learn in terms of so many things that we and our children take for granted .
They wake up at 0600 am every morning except on holidays when they are given a little extra time for sleeping, and then they go for their prayers and breakfast and school and the usual happenings that would take place in a little ones life except that they do all this without the aid of their parents no pampering to wake up, or go thru their breakfast eat what is placed before you and they look well fed,( mind you not obese) they get their share of play every evening and the very tiny ones are looked after by the nuns from the nearby convent (Glad for that as they have a mothers' touch here!) When dusk settles I can hear the hymns and praise they give The Almighty ... which is so touching ..
Whenever I watch the little ones play sometimes a small boy will look around and see me and smile and a braveheart will even wave at me, such innocence !!! At this moment I can only feel so grateful for everything that HE does for everyone of us and cares about each of his creatures both Big and Small ... He is the God of all.....