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Peony Rosas (LP 143)
Mar 16th
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Kulay Rosas. Rosas. Bulaklak na kulay rosas ang ninais kong ipamahagi sa aking LP entry ngayong Huwebes.
Dahilan sa hindi pa rin matapos-tapos ang aming winter ay wala akong mahanap na rosas na bulaklak sa aming paligid, maliban na lang sa mga flower shops. Subalit ang bulaklak na ito ay hindi ko basta na lamang matatagpuan sa mga flower shops dahil seasonal ito, available lamang kapag springtime na. Kaya opo, inumit ko lamang ang litratong ito mula sa aking baul.
Isa sa pinakamabangong bulaklak na nalanghap ko na! Kaya naman hindi maaaring hindi ako bibili nito kapag lumabas na sa mga shops at lalo na sa mga palengke! May kamahalan nga lang, dahil ang 4 na tangkay ay pumapatak ng 600.00- 1,000.00 Php (converted) ang presyong ito ay noong nakaraang taon pa at sa palengke pa lang yan, malamang ay mas mahal ito sa darating na spring.
Hay, hindi ko na mahintay ang pagsibol ng bulaklak na ito. Babango na naman ang aming bahay. Hindi naman po kami mabantot ha! ha! kakaiba lang talaga kapag may humahalimuyak na bulaklak sa loob ng bahay.
Happy LP sa inyong lahat!
Sino, ako? (LP 123: Ingay)
Oct 27th
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MaINGAY. Ako. Ay. MaINGAY!
Sa aming lugar ay napakatahimik! Sa sobrang tahimik ay masakit sa tenga. Hindi po ako nagbibiro. Hindi rin eksaherasyon. Kaya naman lalo na sa gabi, ang aking aso na si Charlie na sa silong bahay natutulog ay dinig na dinig ko ang kanyang pagkakamot, pagbuntung-hininga at syempre pa, ang kanyang paghihilik! Kaya kung sinasabayan ng aking esposo ay duet na talaga sila, ayoshoepatus! Hindi na ako makakatulog nyan. Pero kapag ako naman ang nakatulog, sa umaga ay sinasabi ni esposo na ang lakas ko daw maghilik. Ganti ganti lang, ha ha ha!
Kapag nasa mood at summer…ayan sadyang maingay ako talaga. Paano? Nagpapalahaw sa kakakanta! Noong nabubuhay pa ang aming canary na si Peedy ay sinasabayan ako sa kantahan at talagang tinatabunan nya ang volume ko, I kid you not! Sayang at sira na ang aking mini CDplayer kasi doon ko lang pwede i-play ang cd, kung hindi ay ipaparinig ko sa inyo ang kanyang ingay…nakakatuwa!
Pero ang ingay ko, promise, hindi nakakatuwa 
Let dogs be dogs.
Jun 28th
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I found this photo from my 2008 files. This was shot at Bangkok’s Pratunam Market. I took this shot not because I thought the dog was cute but on the contrary, I was pissed off at its owner. Not only that the dog was dyed with colors but to add insult and DISCOMFORT to the poor thing, it had a shirt on. On a humid and high-temperature day! I don’t know if this was the dog owner’s way to attract people to buy from her or just plain naiveness.
I can understand people clothing their dogs during low temperature but in BKK where people would take their shirts off if they could, this was just wrong. I am no stranger in clothing dogs because my own pug has his jackets, which I seldom put on him and if ever I do, only for a few minutes of photo shooting, that’s it. But even when I do it only for few minutes, my husband would scold me bacause it’s not right to that to a dog, any dog. And he is absolutely right! Dog experts say that an exception is the chihuahua breed. I don’t know about that because I don’t have a chihuahua (yet.)
Anyway, imagine yourself covered with hair and living in a land where the average temperature is 29C? And with a shirt on?! Perhaps you’ll pant, hang your tongue out until it drops to the ground and BITE others around you because you’re irritated and feeling discomfort, wont you?
Let dogs , be dogs. Without shirts and not dyed, that’s the way they are created and should stay.
Note: background was changed into B&W and dog was selected to show only its colors.
Some people!
Jun 17th
There is something definitely WRONG in this picture. Can you spot it?
Some people really. Some people!
Pass the salt, please.
Jun 12th
Dining out is one opportunity for me to take photos. Although my dinner-mate (my husband) does not like it a bit when I do that. He finds it disrespectful because flash is annoying other diners, flash that I SELDOM use in restaurants, so it’s just an excuse by my husband really *wink*
I’m ‘embarrassing’ him, simple.
Laughing out loud!! ha ha ha!
I did it again Friday night. While waiting for our appetizers, I clicked!
No harm done.
Angie’s rose
Jun 8th
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Last year during one of our many conversations, Angie my friend mentioned that she wanted to get hold of a photo of Peony rose (pioenroos in Dutch) have it blown up and to be displayed somewhere in her home. I said I will provide her that photo in high resolution but we have to wait for the rose season, which is now. Since I buy flowers every Saturday, I have been hunting for a good bunch, which isn’t easy to find. I love this flower too because of its heavenly scent! I remember my father in law cutting his peony roses from his garden just to give to me. It’s a shame that my father in law now lives in a nursing home.
Anyhow, what you see here isn’t that photo yet because this was just among the test shots I made last night (yes Angie, that was the reason why I suddenly had to leave you during our YM chat last night )
I tested it against a black background figuring it would bring out the color more. I’ve tried 1, 2 lamps. With external flash. With built-in flash. Even without light at all. The delicate almost silk like petals made it a bit difficult for me to balance the light ( oh, the OC in me, for crying out loud! ) I also wanted to try a light behind it but I forgot that I don’t have that (light), duh! But perhaps after +70 shots I started yawning and well….went to bed to get my zzzzz’s .
I hope to find more fresh poeny roses to shoot…by hook or by crook, Angie will get her photo. I hope.
Old and New
Jun 5th
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KINDERDIJK, almost dawn.
The Netherlands is famous for its windmills. Today there are still more than 1.000 mills. Nowhere in the world you will find as many windmills as near (the Dutch village) Kinderdijk. Around 1740 no less than 19 sturdy mills were built here. They have been well preserved to the present day.
The mills drain the excess water from the Alblasserwaard polders – which are situated below sea-level – after which the water is sluiced into the river Lek (the Rijn).
The powerful mill sails serve to transmit the force of the wind on to large paddle-wheels which scoop up the water. Nowadays power-driven pumping engines do the job, including one of the largest water screw pumping-stations in Western Europe.
The foundation “Wereld Erfgoed Kinderdijk” maintains and preserves the windmills in Kinderdijk.
The preservation is not limited to the windmills themselves, but also covers the area in which the windmills are situated. The foundation makes use of funds from the government and the members of the foundation each contribute to the cost of maintenance. Additional sponsoring should take care of reducing the backlog of repairs.
In 1997 the mills of Kinderdijk were put on the World Heritage List of UNESCO.- source
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