Crystal Mushrooms?
Another addition to our exotic mushroom collection. These tend to appear for a day or two at a time near our Nepalese Ganesha entrance. We refer to them affectionately as our “crystal mushroom.” You can see why. Sometimes they are milky, as this one, and sometimes totally clear like glass.
Tropical Marvels: Bugs, Vines and Little Lizards
We went wandering today with our camera. It was a "Gekco Hunt" to capture images of the ever fascinating little dragons that run all over the place. Technically we have photos today of Lizards and the Head of the Lizard Association of Kauai is adamant about telling everyone "We are not to be confused with Gekcos! We Lizards have the power to completely change our colors. Those weak skinned Gekcos can barely change from a light shade of brown to beige! But we can change from Bright Green to Lava Rock Black in a few seconds!"
Well, I have to be honest then, our Gekco Hunt turned about to be a Lizard Shoot. Lizards are more fun to photograph anyway, as they have a sense of curiousity about "The Big Human Who Is Watching Me," and rapid clicking of the shutter only makes them more interested in watching the Watcher.
Along the way we spied a bee getting pollen for her little sisters back home and the magnificent Jade Vine in full bloom, hanging from high up in a tree like some incredible arati lamp made of blue fire falling from a green canopy above.
Our New Kitchen Making Progress
John Anderson and his team have completed the work of demolition on the old kitchen space. The interior was completely gutted out and cleaned. New electric circuits, insulation and plumbing were put back into the walls and the room was then covered in again with plywood and sheet rock.
Here John is working on the joints on the ceiling.
After this comes painting, tile and installation of new cabinets. Progress!
Little Teva Receives His First Solid Food
Sudarsanarao and Mani Akkineni came from Chicago area to guide the annaprasana samskara for their 6-month-old grandchild, Teva. Teva lives in Maui island with his sister Tulasi and parents Roopa and Joseph.
A flower, book, pen and money are traditionally placed in front of the baby to see which one he'll crawl toward first, thus perhaps indicating future tendencies.
He chose the flower.
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Pilgrims Texas Have Darshan with Bodhinatha
Drs. Nipank and Leena Shroff, and Drs. Nalin and Kamal Tolia made their first visit to Kauai. They stayed with sishyas Mrunal and Padmaja Patel family. They are all from Midland, Texas and founding members of the Hindu temple there.
Amey Deosthali returned to Kauai, this time bringing his family guru, Sri Vidya Gurudev, Shri Shriniwasji Katkar (center in photo.)
Sri Gurudev is in the Sri Vidya tradition and Bodhinatha gifted him a copy of a new English translation of a Sri Vidya scripture. Sri Gurudev said that he read some of our late Gurudeva's teachings ten years ago and made a plan to visit one day.
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Homa Begins With Temple Full of Pilgrims
Bodhinatha is back home and we began a new phase today. The temple was filled with pilgrims. Bodhinatha gave a wonderful upadesha.
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Weekly Visitor Tour
The way our panchangam fell into the lines of the Gregorian calendar we actually had two tours this week. None last week were scheduled and it poured down rain every day. Nice to know the devas are in charge! Wonderfully respectful and open group. So quiet, with many very insightful questions.
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