Post Card from USA

Yehey! Today, Mr. Postman delivered my first ever post card from the US.

 Ate Kim send me this lovely flower post card. I believed she photographed it herself.

 
I love it so much Ate Kim and Thank You Very Much. Mwah!

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Man Made Pond

“Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.” 

~Percy Ross~

 

A man-made pond inside Greenhills Memorial Gardens. Taken using my mobile phone Nokia N86, my companion during my early brisk walking.

Water World Wednesday

Nature Footstep Water

Outdoor Wednesday

 

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Pretty Spider Lilies

 “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”

~Buddha Quotes~

Spider Lilies

I do not know the exact name of this flower, but I'm pretty sure that this belongs in the lily family. Since it looks like spiders because of the slim petals, I tried to google it using the name "spider lily".  Luckily luck, I found her, it is indeed named Spider Lily!

taken using Nokia N86

These pictures were taken early morning in the neighborhood while brisk walking using my mobile phone.

Macro Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday

Wednesday Whites

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Sunrise + Streaks of Clouds

Oh how beautiful is the sunrise! 

Strips of clouds sprinkled in the sky make our morning glorious.

taken using Nokia N86 mobile phone

This photo was taken yesterday at Greenhills Memorial Gardens, Cagayan de Oro City. 

The sun rises gloriously here in the southern part of the Philippines while the heavy rain devastating the areas of the Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon. I hope today the sun will shine and rain will cease on those areas.

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Wooden Rafts at the Sea

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

These are three wooden rafts along the waters of Iligan City near the Centennial Park.

Water World Wednesday

Outdoor Wednesday

Wednesday Whites

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Okra, The Lady's Fingers

One my favorite vegetable is Okra, also known as lady's fingers in other countries. Okra is actually a perrenial flowering plant that has no certain parentage but some says belongs in the mallow family and is scientifically known as Abelmoschus. It bears several dark green pods that are eaten as vegetables.

These are the flowers of Okra, blooming in our front yard. 

My husband chose to plant okra near the front fence to shield us from extreme heat from the sun because okra grows up to 2 meters tall. The instruction was to plant the okra with 90cm distance from each other but my husband misread it, instead he planted it with distance of 9cm. I do not know if they will still grow as high as 2 meters because to date it had grown around 2 feet tall and has started to give us pods for vegetables. 

Anyway, even though they will not serve the purpose of giving us shade but at least they have given us healthy vegetables.

You can check the health benefits of okra here.

Macro Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday

Green Monday

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St. Augustine Cathedral

This is the St. Augustine Cathedral in Cagayan de Oro City.

photo taken using Samsung Galaxy S2

Early morning of August 1, 2012, my husband and I attended the 6am mass at St. Augustine Cathedral that we have offered for our little angel who was taken from us 40 days ago. She was a stillborn baby girl, my little angel that supposedly should be born this month. But unfortunately, God chose her to be His angel before she was even been born. Although I already accepted everything that had happened. still the pain remains in my heart.

SkyWatch Friday

Blue Monday

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