White Christmas

taken on Christmas day

Wishing all of you Good health and happiness!

Old creation given new life

You can't tell but the scene WAS taken one crazy morning in Szentes many moons ago . The apple(s) of course was added later by yours truly.

Story behind this post...
When Mandy requested from a bunch of us for a photo of apple, I remembered this and dug it out from my archive . Then she come up with this haiga which I simply love!

Mandy submited it to an interesting astropoetry project - Newton and the Striking Apple coordinated by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . This morning, I got news that our work (mainly Mandy's) have been published . Do visit the site, it's an eye opener (for me)

Many thanks to Mandy and Andrei for this opportunity!

Oh, here's wishing all a blessed new year !

Time goes by...

Christmas has come and gone, but I'm still digesting the delicious fish soup, stuffed cabbage , bejgli (a type of pastry) and assorted meat!

I trust that whereever you are you've enjoyed your holiday rest and time spent with family and friends as well.

sunny christmas

Decor. around town II

Baby Jesus crafted by primary and kindergarten students of St.Elisabeth Catholic School. The students must be so proud of their wonderful work. I just want to pinch that little button nose of baby Jesus. Wish I can show you another photo of wider angle but flickr is not co-operating this morning :)

Here's a wider angle

Decor. around town I

click here for larger version

Gone for 3 days, came back to to find a christmas market all set up at the town's square. I like that the decor. is kept to a minimal. This arch is particularly elegant to me and am quite satisfied with this shot especially that I didn't spend time composing it..may be should make it into postcard?

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Hello, miss you guys ! sorry, no post yesterday 'cos modem out of order. Thank goodness that our internet provider was efficient to bring us a new modem by the evening!

Greetings

One of the first things I learnt here is to greet , greet , greet!! There are many rules to greetings in Hungarian. Example, when we see our neighbour(s) or when entering a shop, there are 3 different ways to greet :-

... to someone younger than us (anytime of the day) - singular "Szia! {see-ya}" , plural "Sziasztok {see yas-tok}" basically means "Hello !"

... to someone older than us - "Jó reggelt! {yow raig-gailt}" , "Jó napot! {yow naw-pot}", which means "Good morning!" and "Good day! /Good afternoon!" respectively ..

...Then there's special greetings to women (with highest regard) - "csokolom {cho ko-lom}" ..usually to women elder than us .

I still often mixed-up the greetings and sometimes just say "Hello!" instead :). The funniest would be when you see a group of people (old,young,women altogether) infront of the apartment and you start greeting all 3 different greetings at once ..Phew !:D

What about your town/ city /Country ?