Vraj Beautification

 6th Sept marked the 'Shri Giriraj ji Festival' at Vraj. It was a wonderful long weekend.  Was there for a couple nights, and noticed a lot of activity.  Lots of people stayed over for the long weekend, which meant quite a few kids and the playgrounds were full of activity! But when I had to go out to my car after Dinner of Pulav, Kadhi and vegetables, was amazed at this beautiful pic of our temple! On the other hand, after doing the Yamunaji aarti in the morning, was blessed to see a rainbow!  Check out a couple of the pics below! Other activities included weeding in most cases, and we had Uloopi ben helping out in the sun weeding, trimming and arranging additional flower pots at the Giriraj ji premises.   The remaining time was spent in the Yamunaji Garden, clearing weeds. But was elated to see a couple cat's munching away on the Milk Weed plant.  Yes, they are Monarch cats! check out the pics below. Hope you enjoyed the pics.  Do come over for ...

 Happy Ganesh Chaturthi! This is the Shri Ganesh (beginning) of an experiment to have a forum to share news, views and pics of vraj and its beautiful and serene Vraj Bhumi(campus). We humbly welcome you to this forum and hope that each one of you will be actively participating here. From our perspective, participation can be active or passive.  Active-where you can share your views, pics and feedback with us, or Passive-where you regularly come over to this blog and go over the news and happenings and smile! That said, we are always looking for more participating volunteers and you can definitely join us, but before that a little about us: We are a group of volunteers, giving our time and efforts to the Vraj temple.  Our contributions are not only towards the gardens, but some of us have helped as and when needed to other activities too, like serving food, cleanups, visitors management. You would be surprised to know that the Wi-Fi setup though out the temple premise...