Leaf: My beautiful singing guru and friend who moved to India the year I was born. 1977 was a good year for us! (Varanasi, India)

Rae: Everywhere, everywhere, the trees are flowering. We've been driving down highways flanked with color. Though the grasses are very brown, the trees are abundant in violet, yellow, red, orange, and white. (Pai, Thailand- but we see them everywhere, right now on the road to Laos.)