Janmastami coming up fast went to a tailor in Vrndavana for an outfit cleaned off the glue and the feathers stand out only seed beads and colorful thread left when it's done and picked up seems it was finished so quick keeping the vow of new clothes each holiday peacock feathers embroidered all over the cloth 3derfully sparkling in devotees eyes last arrangements are made for the opening at midnight see Sri Giridhari Gandharvika dressed in the fan of the peacock tulips and roses make the leis swaying from their hips to their toes in their dancing ways all are consumed by the outfit like a fan of the feathers of a peacock sun is out but not so much heat cycle babble and i are spinning hearing the song of the birds and smelling the flowers and trees along the beach where the sufferer thakura presides a team laughs and jokes with us beside floating along by the abhavana mauli over the railroad track to the trail of the wilder climbing the hill to panoramic view Seymour's museum and the great whales both grey and blue circling spinner's church and down the beach hill round the about feeling a chill between the lakes with the pitch on the right ratha-bhojana-vrksa smiles as we respect sprinting following the light vijaya greets us and bells begin kirtan cause all to grin in the evening swarga mega nightdress blue Giridhari in white at morning bells who ever gets this sight certainly will feel themselves blessed