Year of Learning spanish: kudos to duoLingo

DuoLingo app is doing great job in motivation using data, incentives. 

Motivating insights

Glimpses of Fall

 [Rest] - A Sunday afternoon walk with Family

Perfect halloween afternoon

Colors of Spring

 

April Tulips bloom @ the Community Garden, Belmont

Night Lights: adieu 2020

 

Beautiful, isn't it? 

    What a year? Time to bid adieu to 2020

Bake off

 

A composition of holiday bakes [courtesy of Kripa]

Christmas 2020

Star of David shines even in Kerala

The people living in darkness have seen a great light !

 

Beauty in bare nature

 

Evening walk after a snow storm

 

 Calm after the snow. Dusk & powdered snow

    One of my favorite time to walk in the neighborhood: the day after all the snow shoveling

Holidays are coming: Cookie times

     

    Classic beginnings to the Holidays: Freshly baked cookies for the friends.

Almond flour chocolate chip cookies - by the junior baker

Special Edition: Donuts

 

Children & Donuts are like ...

                            a painter & his canvas !

Seasons

The beauty of seasons: enjoy the new-england season, from perspective of this tree :-

Luscious Green

 

Changing Colors

Bracing for the Snow

After 16" snow [Dec 17th 2020]

Water fun

 

                       Children & Water are like ....

                                             Cinnamon & Sugar

October Snow

    It was an early snow, melting away now after two days. Kids enjoyed the powdery snow. Josh has been sneezing whole day yesteday. Let us see how he holds up.

Kids had a blast, after being cooped up for so many months

 

White Beauty

 

It's here

 

Bright Orange

 

Along the Mill Pond

An Autumn run to remember

 

    On a beautiful crisp October morning, we started on a unique adventure: Trek a new trail nearby, then to post a letter at Lexington center, burn some calories, targeting for 4 miles,  learn some geography and to see what nature throws at us.

Here we are all pumped up, at our starting point, at Bowman school's backyard Dunback meadow, ready to conquer the world.

After crisscrossing Dunback meadow, we landed at Clarke school. There at the field, we paused, to thank the Lord for a safe September & October so far, and for this new middle school.  Then at the wide open field, Kripa got some geography-lessons on maps and LatLong. 

      Then we headed towards the post box at the town center. We enjoyed the houses decorated in orange & yellow themes. The town center was buzz with Saturday morning routines, for e.g. joggers and walkers on the sidewalk, town residents posting letters & checks at the Clerks drop box.  Heading back on mass ave we talked about plans for the rest of the day. Then we took a side-street across the SeasonFour store, thorough open backyard of Lexington Community Center and back through our favorite familiar inside-road to Bowman.  

Here are some visuals, we captured along the run!

We saw this father and son duo, on the school field, sharpening their soccer skills.

 

What a creative Fall decoration, by these folks !

And we captured images of nature: leaves and worms along the way

In Kripa's words:

"Yesterday I went with my dad on a 5 mile walk - starting and ending at Bowman.

After driving the car to Bowman we used the path, and went to Clarke. Once we reached Clarke, we walked almost up to the town Center, found a post box and dropped a letter. We finally took a new side street that led to the Scottish Museum and soon Bowman.  This walk took about an hour and a half and I really enjoyed it. One thing I learned during this experience was about mapping places and landmarks out in your head. Once we reached Clarke, we stopped in the field and tried to figure out where certain shops were. This is a really useful skill to have in the future, if we lost our way. Another thing I learned was about having an open mind. The side street we took ended up being a short cut, and we wouldn't have known if we hadn't explored it. "

To add to the motivation, we tried a mapping/sharing app, Strava. It turned out to be a nice loop, ~5 miles with 179ft elevation.

 

Here is the rock wall by the side-street, and a jump into the leaves, which was Kripa's favorite part of today's adventure.

After all is said and done, with a great sense of satisfaction, slightly tired, signing off for the time being.

    -- Dad , edited by Kripa

What a Fall !

Fall 2020

Sea Meets Sky

Finally, got out to a beach this summer

 

How vast is the ocean

and How little are we !

 

Kite Surfing is temperamental