Bonne fête chère Cécile/Happy birthday dear -soirée du / party of /25 mars 2013

Jane + délice ...Photo: Shahrzad

We missed all who were absent specially dear Ritza, Francis, Igan, Eric and Bernard...

Déliee...  gâteau du chocolat fait par chère Jane's... chocolate birthday cake délice
jamais pourait être fait aussi bien par quelqu'un autre que Jane...
can ever made by anybody else than Jane...
Photo: Shahrzad

Jane  &délice ...Photo: Shahrzad

Cécile bonne fête/ Happy birthday

Beaucoup de bonheur/Lots of happiness

Bonne santé/good health...

Beaucoup de chanson ensemble/lots of songs togethe...

Je t'aime très fort pour la personne exceptionnelle et généreuse que tu es/I love you strongly because of the exceptional and the generous person who you are...gros bisou/big hug

Cécile 1..Photo: Shahrzad

Cécile 2..Photo: Shahrzad

Cécile 3..Photo: Shahrzad

Voici quelques photos de souvenir pour toi notre chère et précieuse Cécile/Here a few souvenir photos for you our dear and precious Cécile

photo 1-par Christian

photo 2-par Christian

photo 3-par Christian

photo 4-par Christian

Happy birthday dear Melanie-

With our best wishes for you with lots of Lilas for you, the Daughter of Spring and your dear family...

Mélanie & the Orchid, Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Mar.2013

Love, Shahrzad

Beauty embraces Beauty...Mélanie & the Orchid..., Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari, March 2013


Age...
A flower has no age,
Even though time has its effects on it...
A woman has no age,
Even though time has its effects on her...
When I look at a flower,
When I looked at a woman like you,
I thank time to remind me,
How far we are come from,
How far we are going to.. .
Thanks to time to trace the Life Expressions on so pretty faces called 'Nature's Graceful Wonders'...


Dear Mélanie,
Every time I see you and your graceful presence in your ballet suit, I say to myself that I should let time trace its presence through real expressions on me.
I am so grateful that I can use photography to catch some of what I see and feel by watching and feeling Life through the wonders of life and lives....

Thank for letting me express how I see in you by my Mind!

Happy birthday...

Beauty emraces Beauty...Mélanie & the Orchid..., Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari, March 2013

Mélanie in the Greenhouse.., Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari, March 2013

NUTMEG-Noix de muscade

Pour plus d'information or visitez les sites suivantes:
For more information, visit the following sites:
Attention: les photos sont des sites suivantes-photos are from the following sites.

http://www.visoflora.com/photos-nature/photo-photo-n-1-noix-de-muscade-myristica.html


Noix de muscade

Plante

La noix de muscade est l'albumen de la graine du fruit ovoïde du muscadier, un arbre tropical de la famille des Myristicacées haut de dix à quinze mètres. La coque de la noix de muscade en est le tégument.Wikipedia

Rang : Genre Classification : Myristicaceae Sous-ordres : Myristica millepunctata, Myristica philippensis, Plus.com

http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/7-health-benefits-nutmeg-provides.html#b

http://www.visoflora.com/photos-nature/photo-photo-n-1-noix-de-muscade-myristica.html


http://www.savezvousque.fr/produit/alimentation/noix-muscade-mortelle.html
Alimentation insolitewww.savezvousque.fr 

Norooz /Joyeux /Happy Norooz....20 Mars 2013

Joyeux Norooz...Joyeux Printemps...
Happy Norooz ....Happy spring


Hier, en regardant la belle neige je me suis dite,'C'est Noêl ou Norooz?'!
Je me suis consolée en acceptant que le printemps arrive plutard ici à Québec,
Pour garder notre belle tradition ancestrale, j'ai visité la Serre Municipale de Westmount en attendant du Printemps!
Quel Import,
J'aime la vie, et toutes les saisons!
'Vive la vie' comme le répète souvent cher Marc Hervieux ...

Soyons heureux et en bonne santé et vivons en bonne harmonie!

Yesterday, when I saw the beautiful snow I said to myself,'Is it Christman or Norooz?'!
I comforted myself by accepting that the spring arrives later here in Québec,
To keep this beautiful ancestral tradition, I visited the Westmount Greenhouse until the spring shows up!
No matter,
I love life anyway and all its seasons!
'Live Life' as dear Marc Hervieux repeats it often!

Let's be happy and healthy and live in good harmony!


Shahrzad

Narcisses/Daffoddiles, Greenhouse, Westmount, Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari, 19. Mars.2013

Neige à Montréal aujourd'hui et hier...
Snow in Montreal yesterday and today...

La neige.../The snow...Westmount, Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari, 19. Mars.2013

HAFTSEEN, Preparation NOOROUZ .....(traditional Iranian prepartions for New Year)

Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari, 2013

READ ABOUT HAFT-SEEN BY VISITING THE SITE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haft-Seen

Haft-Seen (Persian: هفت‌سین‎) or the seven 'S's is a traditional table setting of Nowruz, the traditional Iranian spring celebration. The haft seen table includes seven items all starting with the letterseen (س) in the Persian alphabet. Haft-Seen was originally called Haftchin (Haftĉin) derived from the words Chin (چین), meaning "to place" and Haft (هفت), the number 7. The Haft Chin table includes the following items which symbolize Zoroastrian yazatas or divinities such as ātar and asmān.

Haft Chin

The "Haft Chin" items are:

1. Mirror - symbolizing Sky
2. Apple - symbolizing Earth
3. Candles - symbolizing Fire
4. Golab - rose water symbolizing Water
5. Sabzeh - wheat, or barley sprouts symbolizing Plants
6. Goldfish - symbolizing Animals
7. Painted Eggs - symbolizing Humans and Fertility

The term and therefore the original custom was changed due to the digraph Ch (چ) not being present in the Arabic language leading to its replacement by the letter S (س). The invasion of Sassanid Persia by the Umayyad Caliphate in 650 brought acculturation and cultural transformation to the local Persians. This subsequently forced the local population to adapt and replace many Zoroastrian customs and words with Arabic and Islamic concepts. "Zoroastrianism was replaced by Islam as the religion of the rulers of Iran" ^[1] The Arabic language was heavily enforced upon the conquered from the local Persians and other Iranian speaking populations throughout Greater Iran and the surrounding areas. The Arab conquests dramatically changed the Middle East and North Africa in respect to language, culture, and religion. The digraph Ch (چ) is not present in the Arabic language leading to its replacement by the letter S (س) in the word Sin. The Arabic assimilation of the Persians and other Iranian groups continued under the Abbasid Empire until the revival of the Persian language and culture by the Samanid Empire in 819 although the term and custom of Haft Chin had evolved into Haft Sin after nearly two centuries of Arab rule.

The Haft Seen items are:

1. Sabzeh - (Persian: سبزه‎)-wheat, barley, mung bean or lentil sprouts growing in a dish - symbolising rebirth
2. Samanu - (Persian: سمنو‎)-sweet pudding made from wheat germ - symbolising affluence
3. Senjed - (Persian: سنجد‎)-dried oleaster fruit - symbolising love
4. Sir - (Persian: سیر‎)- garlic - symbolising medicine
5. Sib - (Persian: سیب‎)- apples - symbolising beauty and health
6. Somāq - (Persian: سماق‎)sumac fruit - symbolising (the color of) sunrise
7. Serkeh - (Persian: سرکه‎) - vinegar - symbolising old-age and patience

Mary Boyce described a traditional Sharifabadi Zoroastrian New Years observance as including:^[2]

• Sabzeh - Sprouts from seven different kinds of seeds
• clay figures, whitewashed (favorites being domestic animals, cows, donkeys, sheep, camel, nightingale, peacock, also household objects such as sugar-loaf, bowls, or a three-legged stool). These "bear witness to the triumphant works of creation."
• a mirror
• a low brazier full of fire
• a lamp
• sprays of cypress or pine
• pomegranates
• painted eggs

Bonne Anniversaire 'a nous!

Une journée merveilleusment belle d'hiver partagée avec Lew Chien Yung

Photo:Shahrzad Ghaffari, FEB.2013

Certains moments 
sont gravés à jamais dans nos mémoires, comme la matinées que cher Lew et moi, après le Tai-chi avons fondus avec nos apareils photos dans la beauté d'hiver au parc de Westmount...quelle joie de partage!

Lew Chien-Yung en prise de photo, Photo:Shahrzad Ghaffari, FEB.2013

Lew Chien-Yung en prise de photo 2, Photo:Shahrzad Ghaffari, FEB.2013

Photo:Shahrzad Ghaffari, FEB.2013

Cactus-Photos: Shahrzad Ghaffari Montreal

Cactus...

cactus 1-
photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari, FEV. 2013

Autres fois, vous n'apparteniez même pas aux archives de ma mémoire,
Depuis que je vous ai visité chez ma chère Michelle, vous constatez que je m' interesse à vous et vous à moi!
Voici ma chère Michelle quelques photos de tes amis Cactus prises tout récemment, toujours impressionnant...!

Fleur de Cactus Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Je t'emrasse et à bientôt,
Shahrzad 

Photos prises en fevrier et mars 2013

Fleur de Cactus Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Cactus Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Cactus Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Fleur de Cactus, Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Fleur de Cactus 1- Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Cactus Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Cactus Photo: Shahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Cactus Photo: Dhahrzad Ghaffari-MARS.2013

Vue d''hiver de la terrace du/The view of winter from Manoir Ville Marie Montreal-Fev.2013

Auberge Manoir Ville Marie, bâtiment Patrimoine Historique Exceptionnel

PHOTOS: Shahrzad Ghaffari, FEV.2013

Vue sur le fleuve St-Laurent du Toit Manoir Ville Marie..Montreal-
Photo of the ship taken by Shahrzad Ghaffari

Vue sur le fleuve St-Laurent du Toit Manoir Ville Marie..Montreal-
Photo of the ship taken by Shahrzad Ghaffari

Toit Manoir Ville Marie..Montreal- photo of the ship taken by Shahrzad Ghaffari

Toit Manoir Ville Marie..Montreal- photo of the ship taken by Shahrzad Ghaffari

Toit Manoir Ville Marie..Montreal- photo of the ship taken by Shahrzad Ghaffari

Toit Manoir Ville Marie..Montreal- photo of the ship taken by Shahrzad Ghaffari

Toit Manoir Ville Marie..Montreal- photo of the ship taken by Shahrzad Ghaffari