Category: Photography

photos from our travels, other interesting places and events

Cold day

It was such a beautiful day in this photo almost a month ago. Today we had also a pretty day, no rain, the sky so bright, in fact so bright there is something into it, then I realized, of course, almost all the trees are leafless and lifeless, it cleared the area, a very very cold, quiet and indeed a lonely place this time of the year. But I had a wondeful day. I’m seizing it.

Burning leaves

Such a beautiful day this Fall, my in-laws’ were burning some of the fallen leaves on their grounds, which I found out from the traces of the fire and the soot, father-in-law was burning them leaves along some length of the small ditch, that was cute. Back in Tagum, at least in our Barangay, we could not burn anthing outside anymore due to some campaign, so we just wished we could. But here too, Lee is too cautious to burn any leaves for fear of possible lawsuit in case some splinters of fire goes astray on some neighbors’ properties who live off lawsuit compensation, or at least ride with it..

Greens

It’s such a very quiet countryside, and this time, a colder place. I was visiting the field to see how the crops are doing, the seeds Lee planted by the signs, and ‘because’ the stars shined ‘okay’, everything turned out well; it seems everything is in perfect timing, including the rains we have had these past weeks. The plants are so green and healthy and doing well. They are growing fast and fat. Aside from the apparently deer leaving their tracks and some bald greens with the missing leaves, the only witness to this greens are Rusty, the in-laws’ dog and me. The dog is a companion, a real delightful creature. He goes wherever I go. Well, father-in-law offered and wanted to help and goes there too to tell us everything is okay. But I have to go for myself to take the photos I would be sending to the Middle East.

Cutest picture

This is ‘Rusty’, my in-laws’ dog. Well at least that is his new name since switching bosses. He is a very sweet dog, very friendly to everyone. Sometimes make me wonder how he will do when there is a threat, or an attacking enemy; but animal as he is, he must have an instinct to defend his packs and friends. We were coming down to my parents-in-law’s house when he met me up the hill, in this photo. Isn’t this picture cute? But the cutest picture I saw that day was when both my mother-in-law and father-in-law stood side by side (a record) on the door, fitting through the opening, watching Rusty and me as I squatted down the ground to pet their dog. That was priceless.

Turtle crossing

I remember the sign that says, “Pelican crossing”, but the other day what was crossing the highway was not a pelican nor a cow, but a turtle. I was delighted to see such adorable little creature creeping on the road, it was so cute to me, but at the same time, I was worried, you see, for sure we will not run him over, but others might. Of course we could never make a turtle transport itself faster by its own (it has been said that it was the turtle couple who last came in and went out of Noah’s ark), but I was so relieve while straining my spinal cord as I looked back at him making it across the other side of the road while there were no other vehicles coming. It was a success for him.

It was just one turtle, but can you imagine 78 turtles crawling onto the tarmac and eventually shut down an airport runway? Without considering the delays they innocently caused, the sightings must have been breathtaking, after all, it’s not everyday you see those kind of reptiles, 78 of them, make a crawling showdown.