Rainy Baisakhi - Espanola Nagar Kirtan

It was a rainy day this Baisakhi, but it didn't dampen our spirits. The sangat was still excited to follow the Guru (inside a car) with the Panj Piare down Shady Lane from the Ranch, perform gatka and sing the Guru hymns all the way to the Gurdwara.


Sita and an unidentified friend took shelter under colorful umbrellas.


Guruprakash Singh and Siri Dyal Kaur sparred in front of the procession


The Gurdwara with packed to its fullest with sangat members.


Amrit Singh enjoyed some one and one time with Dharam Inder Singh at langar.

More pics of the Grand Canyon

We just received another disks of photos from Michael, one of Noor's hiking buddies. The following are some of my favorite pics.


Checking the map...now where are we?


The river was so muddy this year they couldn't filter water out of it to drink.


But they enjoyed beautiful arches...


...and tranquil waters.



If you look closely, you can see Noor scrambling up the side of the rocks.


It was so steep in some places they had to repel down. Fortunately Noor is a good rock climber and showed the others how it is done.


He's also the master of a good nap.


The group counts on him for great dinners as well. Here he is busy putting something good together.

March snow - 3/27/09

I know I'm a little late in getting this post up but I wanted to remember this heavy snow we had. Seems we always get big snowfall in March. We were pretty surprised to wake up last Friday morning to 6 inches of snow!



The branches were so heavily laden with snow that some snapped and fell to the ground.



These icicles weighed down the honeysuckle bush which was already showing new spring growth. Good thing is that everything usually melts within a day or so.