Nymphaeaceae - Water Lily

Nymphaeaceae commonly called Water Lily is a family of flowering plants that live in freshwater areas like ponds and with tropical climates around the world.

I saw these water lilies in a man-made pond somewhere in Bukidnon, I asked hubby to pull over for me to take some snaps. The weather was not that good, hence the photos are not well lighted. I wanted to take a closer shot, unfortunately this is the most my lens can take me. Nevertheless, they still look great for me. 

Next time when we visit the province, I hope to see them blooming again and hope they will be little bit closer to the edge of the pond for me to be able to take a close up photos. 

A share for Water World Wednesday and Outdoor Wednesday.

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Beautiful Pink Ti Plants with Flowers

Cordyline terminalis is the scientific name of Ti Plants, and are also known as Hawaiian Ti or Good Luck Plant/Tree. They comes is different colors, but the pink ones are the prettiest for me.

The Ti plants in our front yard are not that vibrant compared to those I've seen in Bukidnon. I assume these beautiful pink plant grows beautifully in the cool weather of the province.
 

And it's my first time to see them with gorgeous flowers.

These photos were taken using Canon 60D with Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 DG Macro.

Today's Flower

Monday Mellow Yellows

Macro Monday

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InstaPic: February 6-13, 2013

February 6, 2013 - At 1:00PM Hubby called up and asked us if it's possible for us to be at Malaybalay Bukidnon before night time. His father was in death bed and probably waiting for his grandchildren to arrive. But our car's two tires were dilapidated and very unsafe for long driving. I brought the car for a tire change first, and at 5PM we're still in CDO.

We postponed our trip the following day (February 7, 2013), because I'm not familiar with the Bukidnon highway. It was my first time to self-drive from Cagayan de Oro City to Malaybalay, Bukidnon. It took me 3-hours to reach our destination, considering the unfamiliarity and road conditions.

 

The weather was good and the clouds were neat, I asked Joy my son's yaya to take pictures of the clouds using my mobile phone.

Our little prince was having a rest in one of the bargain boxes of Gaisano Malaybalay, while I'm selecting/buying white t-shirts to be used by the immediate family during the burial.

Because according to the oldies, we're not allowed to take a bath at the house were the wake is. So every morning we went to husband's older brother house to take a bath. The little one was so busy playing around with the unhusked rice grains.

 

 

Unhusked rice grains were also being dried at the back of my parents-in-law's house. The little one loves to play with them.

The house was full-packed with mourners, family, relatives and friends. No matter what these two little boys were peacefully sleeping inside the room.

After the burial, we left Cabanglasan at 11:45AM February 13, 2013 and headed straight home to Cagayan de Oro City. I was the one driving again, because hubby had to stay for a while until the 9th day. I needed to report to office the following day, I had no choice but to self-drive.

The photo above was one of the delays at Bukidnon Highway because of road repairs. The irony was it was an uphill part of the highway, we stayed there for 15 minutes. My foot hurts from stepping on the brake pedal, hand brake was not enough.

At 3:22 PM, we finally arrived at the Puerto overlooking. I pulled over for a while and took a photo of the calm sea of CdeO. Yes! It's CdeO already!

I survived the 4 hour drive from Cabanglasan, Bukidnon to Cagayan de Oro City. Thankfully the weather was very cooperative.

Blue Monday

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A Tribute to a Father-in-Law

Though I have spent only counted days with my father in law, i.e. only during short vacations, I have come to love the very person who fathers my husband, my son's grandfather.

I have known what he was thru my husband's stories, and indeed he was really special in every way. A father, a parent who wanted only the best for his children, a family man who strive hard to provide for his family and a loving husband to a wife who was so patient and lovable.

To My Father in Law, you are surely loved and missed not only by your family but all the people who have known you in this lifetime.

May you have peaceful rest in the hands of the Lord.

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Baby Papaya Fruits + Papaya Flower

Can't get over with the papaya yet, I've been talking about them for the past weeks and I still can't believe that after I had posted the dismay we had thinking we're not be able to taste any fruit from these ladies that we had planted in our frontyard, now they actually are actually giving us hope.

 Because after we saw little babies evolving from the flowers of the second papaya plant (photos above), a single baby fruit (photo below) also had appeared from our first papaya plant (finally).

We're really excited how these babies will grow. Meanwhile our third papaya plant is already starting to give us blooming yellow flowers.

 

The light yellow flower is a delicate beauty.

Today's Flower

Monday Mellow Yellows

 

 Macro Monday

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InstaPic: Foodchain Food Trip in the Metro

A person who visits Metro Manila once in a blue moon will surely dig into fastfood chain foods that are not available in the area he's currently living. That's what we did when we had our short vacation at the Metro last week.

Because hubby had fever during our trip and had to stay at the hotel with the little one, I usually took out foods and ate them with hubby at the hotel.

On January 25 I bought half dozen original glaze donut from Krispy Kreme on our way back to the hotel after our 4-5 hours trek at Divisoria with Jefer and her sister.

SM MOA exploration was scheduled in the late afternoon of January 26, meanwhile I bought bacon mushroom burgers from Wendy's for lunch at Robinson's Place Ermita.

 

 At MOA, we had dinner at Sbarro and ordered Chicago White for me and Chicago Deep Dish  for hubby. Although Sbarro is already in CDO but hubby and I never had a chance to visit the famous Italian Pizza House.

 

 Before checking out late (I paid the hotel's late checkout charge because our flight was scheduled at 4:10PM) I bought two take-out meals of Kenny Rogers at Robinson's Place for lunch on Sunday January 27th.

So far these are the only meals we had that I was able to take photos.

Thanks to my ever reliable Samsung Galaxy S2. :)

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