Posting for Water Water Everywhere challenge.
Tag: road trip
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Cee:
- This week our topic is Colorful Monochromes. Your photos needs to be at least 90% one color hue. Be creative and have fun with this challenge.
For this post, I’m focusing on GREEN monochromes. The photos below were taken in a Protected Area of the Philippines: the Mount Banahaw and Mount Cristobal Protected Landscape, which I visited last month. There’s a narrow path, along which visitors must walk to get to a waterfall. Along the way, you do see mostly green. Maybe less than 90% in some photos, but what the hey!
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This is another fun photo challenge. Thank you for hosting, XingfuMama!
Self spent last weekend in beautiful Mendocino. That place is so beautiful, it always revives her spirit.
She dropped by the Mendocino Coast Botanic Garden, where she saw this fabulous driftwood bench. She wishes she could get something similar for her garden!
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Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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Self thinks this is a rhododendron. A giant rhododendron. Either that or a giant azalea (lol) She dropped by the Mendocino Coast Botanic Garden this morning, and everything — azaleas, magnolias, rhododendron — were in bloom.
This neon pink bush was a few yards from the main entrance. They sell rhododendron in the nursery (and they now have a café!)
Posting for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day.
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This is a picture of self with two of her oldest friends — Carla Pacis and Judy Benares — and a new friend — Mahla Sen. It was her last full day in Manila after a four-year absence. The four of us had gone on a day trip of Laguna Province, just a few days prior. The theme of the day was historic churches. The four of us squeezed into Judy’s car and visited the church at Majayjay (and the nearby Taytay Falls), founded by Juan de Salcedo in 1573 (he was 23; the grandfather he came to the Philippines with was dead, and Juan de Salcedo kept on with his sworn duty: the Christianization of Spain’s newest colony) and the church at Nagcarlan (almost as old).
It was a very very long day (we were stuck in a four-hour traffic jam on the way back). Anyhoo, we exchanged stories and came to the conclusion that we made a good “team.” We started drawing up plans for future trips — Kalempong, anyone? Or Simla? Next year, we resolved.
The following Wednesday, Mahla invited us all over for a fabulous Indian buffet — the picture was taken after said lunch. Self had to suck in her stomach. She hadn’t slept a wink the night before — she always gets last-day-before-flying-home jitters, surprised she was still upright. Note the AWP tote? It’s already one of her most-traveled totes.
Posting for Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.
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The theme of this week’s One Word Sunday (hosted by Debbie at Travel with Intent) is COLOURFUL.
Took this picture of votive candles a few days ago in the beautiful Liliw Cathedral. The Franciscans built the first church on this site in 1578. It has been built and re-built many times, but the current structure has a striking, red-brick facade.
The church is a quick day-trip from Manila:
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Took this picture on Christmas Day 2022. Self had driven to Mendocino to de-stress. Mostly, she just walks around the Village, gets take-out from Patterson’s, and browses in Gallery Bookshop. The Corner Bakery makes the best tamales! You have to get there early: they might sell out.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s One Word Sunday.
The sign said “Open” but the bakery was closed in honor of Christmas. Whose bikes were those, then?
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Self loved, loved, loved the Pinschower Inn in Cloverdale, CA, which she visited for the first time last December. It had the most beautiful garden.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s Silent Sunday.
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Main Street, Mendocino, the day after Christmas 2022 (Posted for Wordless Wednesday)
Kanlaon 