The seminar went well, despite my coughing intermissions. And i ate a lot after that. I noticed that the cough went off somehow when i am eating, that is a lovely option. When others went on with their celebration and fun, i went out of the building and had some photo shoot. I always love these opportunities, and coughing was not active also when i was shooting. It was also a welcome sign!
a nice row of Licuala grandis palms are just recovering from the dry season, it provided contrast to the otherwise all coconut dominated landscape
a fully grown bush of yucca plants, a lot of birds have nests on the thick foliage
an old Cycas revoluta
Of course, you are already very familiar with this, the fully fruiting coconut palm. This is the sweet and aromatic variety, very much favored as a refreshment during the dry season.
Left: balloons decorate the walls and posts. Right: a high-rise nest, an elongated bird's nest inside a dense polyscia plant. I guess the nests are just added there each season with the present nest on top making it very long through time. I was not able to take the owner's photo, it suddenly leaped out and far when i went to look.
the anthurium spadix is full of seeds
above is the full set of arrangement which include Heliconia rostrata, anthurium and aster
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I hope you're feeling better. You sure got some great photos.
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Thanks so much Cher, the cough is almost finished, in a little while i will be fine.
DeleteI do hope you have gotten over your sore throat and cough. Great pictures as usual, I do like the Licuala grandis.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the good concern Alistair, and the kind words. Everybody seems to like the Licuala grandis.
DeleteDear Andrea, It is amazing how lush plants can be even in a dry period . . . or surviving one. I hope you too have survived and feel much better after your healing blessing. Really interesting posting with the yummy food and flowers. Your photos are inviting, lovely and exotic. Thanks for sharing and for all your kind words. ;>)
ReplyDeleteHello again Carol. Dry season in Mindanao is a bit lighter than our place in my province. Mindanao before has almost well distributed rainfall, but now also have different climate pattern than usual. I didn't feel the relief after the healing session, but i am much better now, though still have slight cough. Thanks much too. I hope you are much better as well.
DeleteWhat great tropical greenery, so lush and inviting. The food and decorations at the seminar looked very nice. I also hope you are feeling much better now.
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Thanks too FlowerLady. I am almost well now. And i miss the seafoods and other food from there.
DeleteOh wow Andrea, those Licuala grandis looks so stunning! And the Pansit is making me feel hungry :)
ReplyDeletehey Mark, i also had lots of seafoods which are very expensive in Manila, shrimps, alimango, lapu-lapu, inihaw na panga ng tuna, litson, etc, etc plus an aromatic sweet buko every meal. I was really pampered with food which really made good coffee even better! I am sure you are cooking pancit there in UK once-in-a while, haha!
DeleteI Agree with Mark the Licula is lovely
DeleteHi Gaz, am glad to see your comments too. I am very familiar to Mark's comments because he is inserting a very common term which he knows i can relate to!
DeleteUtterly awesome, Andrea ... and I can almost taste those fresh pineapples! I'm so sorry though that your cough and throat have been troublesome (doubtless an understatement, but it sounds as though you are now on the mend). We are having an unusually wet summer in England, with the jet stream hugging the country and bringing cool grey weather and flooding. I'm pining for sunshine ... and loving the bright colours on your post!
ReplyDeleteYes Caroline, i read that your conditions there now are almost wet and very wet, haha! I can send you some sunshine as we have lots of that here! Thanks for your concern about my condition, i am almost on the final stages of the cough, just a few more days and i am fully well. thank you so much.
DeleteSo sweet your story of the healing blessing. I love too the simple decoration of the candles. It's a great idea to use a leaf to catch the wax! And those noodles are looking delicious. This post is exceptionally visually stimulating! So much yummy goodness.
ReplyDeletehehe, yes Cat, and i took a lot of share from the food. I noticed there's no coughing while eating.
DeleteBless you dear! May your cough be gone for good. I like the fruit arrangement on the table.
ReplyDeleteHope you feel much better soon, Andrea... It's horrible to feel so sick while at that beautiful place... The grounds are gorgeous --and they certainly fed you well.... Now --take care of yourself and get WELL.
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Betsy
Beautiful. I especially love all those wonderful, lush tropical plants.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous serie of the green beauty.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a good time despite your illness. I hope it's all gone by now. What a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteAlso, thank you for letting me know about the malware. I didn't even know it was there. I'm glad it's gone.
I see pastillas and pancit. Yummmmm.
ReplyDeleteI love all the greenery. Hope you're feeling much better.
Photo Cache, the pastillas you see is makapuno candies. Now i am reminded to post the makapuno, an abnormality in coconut which is very much liked by consumers! Thanks for the good thoughts.
DeleteThis looks like it was a wonderful meeting, although I'm sorry you weren't feeling well at least part of the time. I hope the healing service helped. I enjoyed your photos.
ReplyDeleteInteresting insight into all those plants! Those yucca plants look a bit like dwarf palms! They're fascinating!
ReplyDeleteInteresting post.
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Really like the group of yuccas and the row of licuala.
ReplyDeleteIs this still in Zamboanga? Where is the curacha?
I hope your cough is gone by now. Who was the healing priest?
yes that group of yucca is already big. Yes this is still in Zamboanga. Sorry i forgot the name of the priest already. I actually don't like curacha, i've tasted it long time ago, i've been to Zamboanga many times. I prefer the coconut crab in Batanes.
DeleteIs that exclusive to Batanes? Or is it available here in Manila? We had crab several times while in the US. Meatier but not as tasty as our local crabs or Asian crabs for that matter.
DeleteHi Andrea, I hope you feel better soon. I had to bad chest colds earlier this summer that left me coughing endlessly. I found the coughing was worse when I would lay down at night, which made it hard to get any sleep. Looks like you had lots of yummy food at your seminar. I like that short, stubby old Cycas revoluta. Take care and feel better!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Jennifer, yes it happened that way the first few days. Then i simultaneously used herbal medicines which I tried because i don't want to take antibiotics yet. More problem ensued because my allergy joined the infection because i think my system is allergic on phlegm, of all things. So now i think the infection is out but coughing due to allergy is still here!
DeleteHi Andrea, That looks like a beautiful place. I enjoyed the pictures of the landscaping plants, the festive decorations and food. I hope you are feeling better now. :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes we have no choice but to take antibiotics to avoid a prolonged cough, Andrea. Hope you get rid of the cough soon. Thanks for sharing a part of what you are involved in, like this seminar you attended. Gives us a good idea of who Andrea is! :)
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Thank you Rosie, at least i am now free of the infection without taking antibiotics. I just tried improving my resistance, coughing now is because of allergy, but it is not really very difficult!
DeleteHope tat cough is all done now! I had a bit of a bout while I was in China, but I did not take anti-biotics. Still, you seemed to have a marvelous time down south.
ReplyDelete[Andrea, how long must I live in the PI before you'll stop calling me a foreigner? ;-) If you were to live in Canada for 22 years, no one would call you a foreigner. Talaga. I never did find out why my name is spelled as it is, except it's the same as an aunt's.]
Hahaha, i am sorry about that, it's not meant to offend! If someone is white and big (LOL), when we see them anywhere they look like foreigners, and that is the immediate thought. The Filipino-Chinese are living here since time began, yet they are Intsik, I don't know why but it seems to be the normal term, till recently when they are formally called Chinoy. Maybe it is not in the length of stay but in the physical features, even if the birthcertificate shows Filipino. But are you aware that we are traditionally exceptionally kind and accomodating to foreigners?
DeleteAndrea, thank you for sharing! I wish I was there to taste that yummy food! Love the pictures of plants. Cycas revoluta is my favorite!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Andrea, thanks for your comment and sorry for some confusion on my blog. If you edit your old draft, Blogger publishes it with the current date, not with the date when it was written. This is what happened.
Huge fan of the Cycas. And as for keeping up with my blog...um.....you run two!!!! I don't know how YOU do it my friend. So. 1. That food looks absolutely divine....and sumptuous(I've always felt that that was a sexy food word:). I was hungry looking at it. And I love that pic of the candle decoration. Really interesting and different.....and when i say different...I mean...great idea. Take care of that throat and cough my friend. You've had that cough for awhile now.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking.....I know I know....dangerous.....but I was thinking. I get these coughs when the seasons change from dry air to moist air. Do you have dry air right now? Take care of yourself. Happy thoughts your way. Kreesh:)
haha Kreesh, sumptuous is sexy, then what about pre-sumptuous! Senses can be entertwined and maybe the brain does trick sometimes! Yes i put that candle because it was different, also my first time to see it. I had the cough because of decreased resistance! Less hours of sleep and talking so much, that was a bad combination, and then have sweets after that provoked the microorganisms just waiting for food!
DeleteI am well now, can talk and eat well again. Thanks!
Beautiful series of photos. Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you are sick and hope you get better...amazing how things are recovering from the dry season...we are having an unexpected dry season and we need some rain soon...lovely photos.
ReplyDeleteHi there - there are some great pictures in this post. Hope you are on the mend from a health point of view!
ReplyDeleteThe birds are called Butcher Birds because some of the birds in this group hunt from thorn trees and when they catch prey they "pin' them to the thorns for later consumption - so a branch can end up looking like a butchers rack!
Stewart M
Thank you so much Stewart. ..and i don't think i want to have that Butcher birds in the vicinity, the branches they keep might look morbid!
DeleteOh, now I have to return to my country Malaysia to lay my hands on the coconuts...
ReplyDeletei hope you're on the road to recovery Andrea. beautiful variety of plants. i love the flower arrangements.
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