Flowers: free and for all

As the winter winds to a close and the summer begins, with those dry, dusty breezes already making the afternoons just a little bit sleepy, I want to pause to say thank you for the flowers. Our little garden is a source of so much pleasure – I love to wander across the lawn in […]

Domestic Comforts

We have lived in our own house for nearly three years now, but I still walk around it sometimes in a daze of delight, unable to believe that this beautiful place really belongs to us. I love everything about it, from the garden to the verandah to the living room to the desk in our […]

Flowers

It’s not quite flower season yet here in Dehradun (that’s January and February), but the wonderful thing about this city is that there are flowers literally, year round. Especially if you have a gardener like Ramesh Rawat. Ramesh is a genius.His father was our gardener when we first moved here and Ramesh has inherited the […]