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...

Happy days are Here Again...!!!!Have been enjoying a couple of days of "Winter"and it definately makes a difference, to most of the happenings around us, the people in the buses are more than happy to have the windows shut, and a slight crowd does not matter in this time, the fruits are luscious the blushing strawberry and the sugar watered Oranges, the black currants are all the rage in the fruit market, ....
I love this season, the cool morning walks, and some pet owners even wrap their little doggies with jackets and scarves, people sitting around a wood fire to warm themselves with cups of chai...I love these simple pleasures
Maybe we have just a few days left, as we have the festival of Holi which is meant to herald spring and then we get into the blistering hot summer, on the flip side don't we all wait for the King of fruits to arrive ?
For miles around us we will see a" golden sea"mounds and mounds of mangoes around us, people carrying boxes of them and some of them like me, setting out to make pickle, that is really meant to last till the next cycle, but believe me ... it really does not sit around for that long, an aunt here a neighbour there and the rest is meant for "us" "Hey mom where is the pickle you made last month ?"
Till then happy winter days !!!!