From the monthly archives:
Last Saturday was the scheduled Parent-Teacher Conference in the kids’ school. My husband had made arrangements with his office so we wouldn’t have to rush. We were hoping for a relaxed afternoon after the lunch at U.P. Diliman’s Chateau Verde that I had planned. But something urgent came up–my husband had to go to a [...]
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A portion of a bouquet of white flowers from my husband. Beautiful–I couldn’t take enough photos!
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They’re called baby’s breath. These tiny white flowers, no more than half an inch in diameter, are used to enhance the apprearance of bouquets and other floral arrangements. They’re inexpensive and they stay fresh for days, often outliving the more expensive blooms that they enhance.
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The third batch in my 14-year-old daughter’s experiments with macro photography, this time featuring rusty objects. The chain in the photo above is actually part of a bell chime that hangs on the banaba tree in our garden. Sam tilted the camera to photograph the chain at such an angle.
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When you marry, you marry a stranger. It doesn’t matter how long you have known the man, sometimes, even after a lifetime, one doesn’t truly get to know a person. If the risks for women in “ordinary” traditional relationships are real, the risks can even be greater when a woman marries someone she has only [...]
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I am good with the needle. Was. When I had 20/20 vision. When we were living in the city, I made curtains, my daughters’ dresses, even mine…
I like needlecraft. Used to like. Used to enjoy. I used to get such high grades in elementary and high school with my projects. I could sew well, I [...]
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More of my daughter’s photos. Her subjects are getting more and more strange. Above, that’s how a fish bone looks like after the cats were through with it.
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Have I mentioned that both my daughters are into photography? These photos of insects inhabiting the garden are the first in a new series on Sam’s macro photography (she’s 14). She spent two hours yesterday crawling all over the house and the garden to find interesting things to photograph. I must say she found a [...]
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It has dry, bumpy skin and it “walked” instead of hopped. I guess that makes it a toad rather than a frog.
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A fiery sunset. Photo taken by my husband somewhere in Batangas. I’d ask where exactly but he’s fast asleep.
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