Onam 2009 - Kerala Festival

Onam, God's own country's biggest festival, the Festival of flowers. Though staying out of kerala, we do celebrate Onam by putting Onam(Decoration with Flowers) everyday. Appa gets the flowers the day earlier and amma put the Onam every day early morning all the days. Myslef & Gauri join her on the weekends.

Gauri & Amma with the Onam in front our house, posing for the photo.





"Onam is celebrated in the month of Aug/Sept to celebrate the yearly home coming of Asura King Mahabali who ruled Kerala. He was a pious king and kerala was  believed like a heavenly place with no thiefs, people were self sufficient, healthy & wealthy. The people of the country were very happy and lived in peace. "

In today's world all these are stories... we can dream to have these days coming back...

Though brought up outside Kerala, I wish Gauri to know of our culture and enjoy it .....