On May 13th last year, less than a week after I got my Canon EOS 350, a Mother’s Day gift from my husband, I went out of the house, took a leisurely walk and took photos of anything and everything that I found interesting. I even went to the subdivision next to ours which has [...]
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Akismet anti-SPAM software is comes with every Wordpress installation. All one needs is an API key (just register with Wordpress for one) and Akismet is activated. Been happy so far until, a few days, ago, I started noticing the avalanche of SPAM in my comment threads. Of course, I have comment moderation ON in all [...]
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Taken at the backyard. At least three kinds of wildgrass peeped above the wall that divides our property from the vacant lot nearby. I had to wait until the cloud was in just the right position before taking the shot. 
Taken with the Canon EOS 350D.
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Grass is slippery when it rains and I don’t bring out my camera unless it’s safe. The one morning early this week that it wasn’t raining when I got out of bed to fix the kids’ school lunch, there was this lavender gumamela (hibiscus) that was just starting to open. No longer a bud but not yet in full bloom. Too irresistible. I simple had to freeze the moment.
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I took these photos last summer at the MMLDC, the same day that I took the photos of the cuckatoos and the parakeets. I hadn’t gotten around to posting these koi photos because the composition of the originals was rather hilo. It was too bright, there were too many ripples that obstructed the images of [...]
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Published as an op-ed column in Manila Standard Today
EXECUTIVE Order 51, or the Milk Code, aimed at promoting breast milk and breastfeeding, took effect during the term of President Corazon Aquino. In May 15, 2006, the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of Executive Order 51 were approved by the National Executive Committee of the Department [...]
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I really don’t know where the color lavender ends and the color lilac begins. I’ve always referred to these as my lavender gumamela. We have two varieties, the smaller ones that we bought in Los Baños, Laguna, years ago, and the bigger ones with overlapping petals from a cutting given by Jay and Jet David [...]
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If there is one aspect of photography that I find absolutely fascinating, it is nighttime photography. I just love the play of lights, colors, shadows and highlights. The following photos were taken last year from Robinson’s Place where my brother-in-law and his family stayed for a month when they visited from Chicago.
Above, the Robinson’s Place [...]
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
