I remember the son’s field trip two months ago when I asked several of his classmates to name what this fruit is. I got several answers but the closest thing I got was a calamansi or calamondin.

When I said it is in fact a guava, my son was surprised because he said he knows guavas are big, way bigger than this one. Ack! He is correct in a sense because we buy those big yellow green guavas. The oldest child loves to munch these guava slices.

Children these days, they can download from YouTube, chat with friends and relatives and watch events happening on the other side of the planet via the web but can’t name native games and native food.

It sure is a good thing the children’s school have these nature trips and they get to see unfamiliar things in nature.

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If we don’t have digital cameras, we wouldn’t be able to take as many photos as we want to. Everything we see will just remain in our mind (which is also good for it will make us be more creative in describing what we saw to others).

There are times when my camera is like an extension of my hand. If you are the type who takes photos of almost everything, you’d understand what I mean.

Here is a Fire Tree, captured in pixels and shared to those who will land on this page (and its Flickr page). I would probably find it hard to describe how it looked like when I saw it but this photo shows how beautiful the tree is.

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I don’t really remember if the rains poured on this day (I edited the date of this post, LOL) but dark heavy clouds are a welcome sight to some of us who wanted to have a break from the sun’s piercing heat.

During weather situations like these however, the temperature feels hotter, more humid and the skin has a sticky feel to it. Ewww…

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For me, this is a lovely serene photo.

People were looking at me when I was taking these photos because I was sitting beside the pool using a plastic chair as my tripod.  I don’t really care what they think as long as I get the photos I like

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Pink flowers

On our way up the train station, I stopped to take photos of these pink flowers blooming on a tree. The flowers smelled sweet.

A lady even smiled at me while I was taking photos. This tree with pink flowers, which I can’t identify, is full grown and surprisingly is thriving even if it was planted on the sidewalk of the busiest highway on the metro.

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