I think this is my third blog in a series of shots that I took giving colors to the day. At first it was orange, then white, let’s have it in yellow today. Life in our neighborhood is a quiet life, it’s the noise of the vehicles, tricycles and motorcycles that shatter the peace and quiet. All our streets were named after flowers. One such stretch that I love is the street perpendicular to ours which is called Aster. Our two village gardeners have planted annuals lining the sidewalk and it is a sight to see the yellow colors of blooms facing the sun.
And I was wondering why they didn’t plant Aster flowers to fit the name of the street instead of these lovely Cosmos blooms only to find out that the latter are also called Mexican Aster 🙂 They are eye-catching and when the wind blows, they sway…
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Another lovely morning spent in the garden!
A perfect day to stay in the garden for a while. There is a typhoon coming but the sun is slowly showing its face, begging for those quiet moments that one dreams of. It’s the morning ritual of greeting the day with so much hope and enthusiasm, taking a few shots of the garden. Everything is grace, even the simple task of picking calamansi fruits for a healthy juice later.
I have to use a ladder since the fruits on top are in clusters and can’t be reached. I just love these moments – being with nature and enjoying the morning . What a life 🙂
We have two dwarf calamansi trees which we planted at the same time that we constructed the house seventeen years ago. They bear fruits all year round but summer is the best time to harvest them. When the rainy season sets in, they stop…
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