{Crocheted Table Topper}

Crocheted Table Topper for layering with linen table cloth...

Yes, that is one more item I did hand crochet. My Mom had used to have a stash of Dutch, Durable cotton and I did purchase quite some skeins from her.

You see it right; there is a PEACH in that fruit bowl with some Bosc pears... even in mid-winter!

A nice table setting for three.

Crocheted from an Aarlan magazine, with obviously nicer thread that had a pretty sheen...

Funny that I could almost copy-cat everything in the above photo...

My white octagonal Seltmann Weiden Mirabell china from Germany.

French Baccarat Piccadilly, narrow and somewhat wider champagne flutes.

Dutch Gero Zilmeta Menuet 528 flatware.

Creamware Fluted Salad bowl made in Leeds, England by Hartley Greens & Co., famous since 1770.

Available at: Williamsburg Marketplace

The Evil Eye from Turkey is adding some blue...

Just a simple star pattern...

Added the  crochet pattern for those that would like to copy it...

{Part V of Trip to India - Chail Himachal Pradesh & Highest Cricket Ground in the World}

High in the mountains

Look at that sight!

Snow capped Himalayan Mountains and here is the world's highest cricket ground!

Incredible view with snow capped mountain to the right.

You really do feel like being on top of the world!

This is Chail, in Himachal Pradesh...

Chail  ←click it

Related links:
The highest cricket ground in the world | information about Chail
{Part IV of Husband Pieter's Trip to India -  Solan, Himachal Pradesh} | previous post by me
{Part III of Husband Pieter's Trip to India - Maharaja Amarinder Singh, Patiala Punjab} | previous post by me
{Part II of Husband Pieter's Trip to India - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh} | previous post by me
{Part I of Husband Pieter's Trip to India  - Arrival in New Delhi} | previous post by me
{The Mission of H.R.H. Prince Claus - Husband Pieter's Trip to India} | previous post by me

{Part IV of Husband Pieter's Trip to India - Solan, Himachal Pradesh}

From the visit to one of the Maharaja's residences in my previous post, see below, we now continue to Solan in Himachal Pradesh State.

Nature in March starts looking at its best, lots of fruit trees are blooming on the slopes of the hills.

Husband Pieter did climb atop of these beacons for having a better view of the valley.

Here is the car in which they traveled, with the driver to the left.

Another Dutch gentleman on the right, who also had opted for traveling to the rural areas instead of staying close to the University of Delhi's Research.

Just to give you an oversight, from the Patiala, Punjab capital they were now heading towards Solan where the red dot is, in the Himachal Pradesh State.

Center top shows you The Great Himalayan National Park

Transport...

Children on their way to school, carrying the typical Himachal Pradesh book bag, made from jute thread.

Mountains and a quite different Flora...

A look down below the valley where a river peacefully weaves its way.

A little bit more to the right and amazing to see cacti growing here!

What a view!

How they cultivated all those terrasses in the mountains!

Makes one feel like being on top of the world...
Clouds are coming in here.

Narrow walk ways through the fields...

Yes, and here people are living!

Homes...

Visiting the Department of Agriculture
Husband Pieter is the one wearing the batik shirt and the brown leather bag...
He is checking the compost, the substrate for mushroom growing.

In front of the Department of Agriculture with Dr. C.L. Jandaik, one of Pieter's former students.

Looking at their mushroom growing facility...

One of the girls working inside such a mushroom growing room.

Another girl watering the mushrooms...

Looking away at the snow capped Himalayas...

Snow capped Himalayas and huge deodar ceders with catle.

Marked in yellow: The Great Himalayan National Park...

Related links:
{Part III of Husband Pieter's Trip to India - Maharaja Amarinder Singhm, Patiala Punjab} | previous post by me
{Part II of Husband Pieter's Trip to India - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh} | previous post by me
{Part I of Husband Pieter's Trip to India  - Arrival in New Delhi} | previous post by me
{The Mission of H.R.H. Prince Claus - Husband Pieter's Trip to India} | previous post by me