I call this dear friend of mine, the Polish Woman, because…she went to the South Pole recently…something that not many of us are likely to do.

I’ve posted all the pictures from my long walk to my Facebook album, which (if you have a Facebook account) you can see if you

On the way back from the Lake of the Ozarks, we had a brief halt at

Are you aware that a bottle can contain more than 100%?

This morning, as I walked in Forest Park, I inhaled the heady scent of the magnolia blossoms, and though I am not a nostalgic person usually, the scent evoked memories of what I call the “pre-IT Bangalore”…the sleepy, lovely city that we moved into, in 1988. One of the loveliest memories from those days is that of inhaling the scent of the Sampige trees as I walked, and cycled, in Cubbon Park…