First long weekend of 2024, stunning beauties on my morning walk.

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Good morning from this side of the planet . It's a beautiful Saturday morning here. The sun is warm and bright in the sky and we have a cold breeze. So, that's a perfect combination for a gorgeous weather . It's the first long weekend of 2024. We have a holiday on Monday on account of Makar Sankranti. That's the first festival of the year and is celebrated across India with different names in different states. I have written a post about it last year. I might write one on the day . My husband left for airport early in the morning. This year, he wanted to celebrate this festival with his mom. It seems that he has not celebrated it with his mom in the last thirty years since he left for his college. In fact in thoss years when my mother in law stayed with us, he was always out of country on this day. So, though I have celebrated a few Makar Sankranti with his parents, he has not in the last thirty years. And in the last few years, my mom in law is mostly confined indoors due to restricted mobility. So, she is not able to travel and visit us. She was with us from 2012_2018. My father in law struggled with cancer for two years and then passed away in 2014. Since then she stayed with us as she needed medical care and a full time nurse to manage her osteoporosis and dementia. She would go for a month to her native place. My husband's elder brother stays there. After her visit in 2018, she couldn't come back as she had a fall in bathroom and had fracture. Then pandemic happened. And after two years, her health deteriorated so much that she could not make long travel. Since then my husband makes sure to visit her a few times in year, mostly on long weekends when we have no other plans. I would also visit her whenever I can. My husband left at 5 AM. I cooked and packed for my daughter, finished some chores and snuggled back to warm bed around 7 . Then I got up at 8:30. The weather was gorgeous and I went for a long walk . These were the beauties blooming along the walking track in our apartment . Aren't they gorgeous? We have the sides of the track full of them in pink and purple shades. Happy to walk a bit late as it was bright sun outside and I could get some Vitamin D . That's all for now. Catch you later. Have a good time in your myLot corner