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I was a bit frustrated for I wanted to see the sun rise over the mountains. But we had a slow start so the sun was already rising when we were still in the house.

We traveled anyway and seemed to waste gas along the way.

As we did so, we saw lush green mountains, which were a part of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, said to be the longest mountain range in the country.

The roads started to twist and turn as we burned fuel. I don’t really mind, we were enjoying the scenery.

Oh no! It is starting to rain. How will I take photos? How will we have our outdoor breakfast?

We didn’t get our outdoor picnic breakfast. I wasn’t able to take the photos I wanted but we got this:

Nature really is full of surprises

We also went to another wonderful place not frequented by people but that would be for another post.

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(There was a nasty accident involving a motorcycle rider before or after that turn in the second photo. The ride was really in bad shape and the rider was lying along the road with his fellow riders. I hope he is ok. There have been a lot of motorcycle-related accidents in this area I am wondering they weren’t banned from going this way. They could get  really fast on these twisties and tend to overdrive and have accidents. I shudder thinking about this when my husband rides with his buddies to this place.)

Tags: Environment, nature, nature photos, SierraMadre, weekend

I remember this song back when I was younger: “I sing because I’m happy. I sing because I’m free. His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.”

Click here to listen to the song and its lyrics.

No, the Weekly Question is not about singing. Yet.

It’s about crying. Why crying? Because this song, with its wonderful lyrics, makes me want to cry. And so does a lot of other things.

So here goes the Weekly Question Number 16:

What makes you cry?

 

My answer:

There are a lot of things that make me cry:

• When one of my children is hurt, I cry.

• When I hear sad love songs and watch a sad movie, I cry.

• When I watch something sentimental, even a television commercial, this makes me cry.

• When I hear wonderful comments for me and not-so wonderful comments, I cry.

• Even emails with heart-wrenching lessons and life stories make me cry.

• I  cry usually when I am frustrated like when I lost all my photos during the WordCamp Philippines 2008 event yesterday. All photos of the lectures I attended were there. I just didn’t have the opportunity to do that because there were a lot of people.

• Pretty much a lot of things make me cry. I will not deny this. I don’t want to watch some TV shows because these make me cry.

I cry silent tears.

I sniffle.

What about you? What makes you cry?

Tags: crying, emotions, feelings, Weekly Questions

This theme is difficult for me. Copper is everywhere, from the food, the electrical wirings, in automobiles, architectural structures, plumbing, computer chips and even in coins. But even if I have these photos, it was difficult to describe how copper was infused.

Ang temang ito ay mahirap para sa akin. Ang tanso ay ginagamit sa maraming bagay, meron sa pagkain, sa pagdaloy ng kuryente, sa mga gusali, sa daluyan ng tubig (tama ba ang term ko?) sa computer chips at pati sa mga barya. Meron naman akong mga larawan nito kaya lang parang mahirap sabihin kung paano ginamit ang tanso sa mga ito.

Green olives are good sources of copper, click here to read.

Ang green olives daw ay mainam na napagkukunan ng copper.  Dito ito mababasa.

In my research about copper, I have found out that copper is one of the friendliest metals around. It is good for defense against germs so bacteria growth is inhibited. It is used in doorknobs and other push panels that are both touched by hands which can be the source of germs.

Sa aking pananaliksik ng tungkol sa tanso, nabasa ko na ito pala ay isa sa mga hindi matatapang na bakal. Sa katunayan, ito ay magaling na panlaban sa dating host ng That’s Entertainment mga mikrobyo para hindi na lumago at dumami ang bakterya ng pinanggagalingan ng sakit. Ginagamit ito sa mga door knobs at iba pang bagay na tinutulak, na nahahawakan ng kamay na siyang kinapapitan ng mikrobyo.

For more information about copper, go to Copper.org.

Para sa karagdagan kaalaman tungkol sa tanso, maraming mababasa dito sa Copper.org.

Tags: health, information, Litratong Pinoy

We are loyal Faber Castell products users. No, they are not paying me to say so.

There are different kinds of pencils to choose from.

When the children were starting to write, they used grip pencils to help them hold the pencils properly.

Now that they are older and are able to write better, we use the #2 pencil, usually the green color because I can’t stand the color orange.

The children also use the Faber Castell erasers.

And the Faber Castell colored pencils.

Ok, you got my drift.

One of the company’s products that we love are the sharpeners. We have had several sharpeners from them but these are either lost or misplaced. The older ones are still being used but when they have a new design, we just have to get one or maybe two.

See? No mess when the pencils are sharpened.

Check out one page of the Faber Castell site here and our homeschooling site here and see the colored pencils on both sites

Tags: consumer products, school supplies

Living in the city is synonymous to being busy and having a hurried and harried life.

The sound of vehicles, the heat, the smog and the lack of trees around make people just accept urban living as devoid of nature’s sights and sounds OR they might crave for it’s beauty, peace and quiet.

The sky which in itself is like a canvas where wonderful colors can be seen can sometimes be dull.

Instead of seeing sunrise and sunset colors as well as cloud formations which people often times do not appreciate, we sometimes see airplanes, huge ones, flying above our heads. Not that its bad to see these, no not at all.

So I decided to try zooming in on some interesting objects that I can see around me for comparison.

An airplane flying overhead. One of the common things being noticed in the sky because of the noise it makes or the lights it flashes at night.

People rarely stop to smell the roses, so to speak. We are fortunate enough to be surrounded by trees and therefore we often hear the sounds of birds, playing happily among the branches, twittering and chirping.

it is quite difficult to take photos of birds because they do not stay in one place for long and I am just glad I was able to capture this photo (plus other bird photos) when I spent some time “bird watching” on the third floor of hubby’s family home.

Which photo do you prefer?

Tags: brd watching, nature photos, sky photos, weekend