Skywatching Pastime

There are very few weekends i don't go home to the province for the butterflies and hoyas. Looking for butterflies means i have to go for a walk to the slightly wild surroundings or to the less traveled paths; that i have to encounter a lot of mosquitoes, insects, spiders and their webs on my body and a lot more of unexpected incidents, nice and bad! These walks end with itchy skin, though i use rash guards, sometimes scratches or when i inadvertently slip there are some bruises. Sometimes these stayed with me for the next few days while already in the office in the city. But that is my body complaining, yet my mind and heart is contented and happy. I love doing it and will continue till i still can. Meanwhile, i am now in the city, did not go home, intended to rest and clean my condo unit, and do whatever task i've always laid aside.

So when these weekends happen, i always have the sunsets to have a semblance of being with nature while inside the concrete jungle! The photos are all taken from the 5th Floor Window!

I included the dates and time the pictures are taken. They are all Straight out of the Camera, no alterations, not even cropping.

                                                           

   Friday, October 12, 2018; 5:55pm. 

The moon is already visible at the west as the night sets in.

                                                 Saturday, October 20, 2018; 5:08pm.

 Saturday, October 20, 2018; 5:13pm.

 Saturday, October 20, 2018; 5:14pm.

 Sunday, October 21, 2018; 5:03pm.

 Saturday, October 21, 2018; 5:39pm.

Saturday, October 21, 2018; 5:40pm.

Saturday, October 21, 2018; 5:41pm.

Skywatch Friday

A Decade of Blogging!

Time went by including blogging. I am not thinking about the time i've spent here, i just know a lot of changes happened through the years. It has been supporting me through, and i realized it has already been 9 years, as in NINE YEARS! It only takes 1 more year to be a DECADE of Blogging! It started on March 26, 2008. I also changed the design twice but not completely. Also, my Header Title changed once, but my name there remained. When i made another blog catering to my own garden and locality, this older one remained totally devoted to travels, photos and plants not from my own.

I still remember my blogger friends who taught me developing this, how to insert some changes, put some links, the data in my side bar, etc., etc. And some of my friends from far away countries already got other life achievements, or careers. Many already became grandparents, or acquired sons or daughters-in-law. Others still continuously comment and make virtual contacts. Others still blog but felt my posts are not interesting for them anymore. Some are still around but completely stopped posting; and unfortunately, some already passed on to the other dimension. Somehow another blogger friend let us know someone's passing and i always send prayers for them. We just leave this world in our own designated time, and we are all going there!

Blogging still fascinates me. It serves as my venue to show my photos and my interest with plants, creatures, landscapes and places. It also let me spend my extra time to simulate a semblance of diligence, not let my mind wander to maybe harbor some negative thoughts. I was given chances of putting words into thoughts and ideas, and let whoever may drop by know my preoccupation at the moment. My posts are normally spontaneously written, just my thoughts that moment. I treasure all the time they have spent reading my posts, looking at my photos and of course leaving their thoughts and comments. At this moment there are 220,082 visitors who dropped by.  As i put below my page, "your comments are the life of this blog", and they really propel me. I truly appreciate all of you, your energies sent here, and these all delighted me through the years. Thank you very much. As in any commencement exercise, a culmination is also the beginning. I hope you will all still be with me.

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More 5th Floor Window Sunsets

When time doesn't give me much option to do things i love doing, i post sunset photos direct from my drive. I hope some of you remember my sunsets. I love photographing them again and again, they come in so much variations and they change so fast in a matter of minutes.

the moon joined the landscape

Skywatch Friday

Skywatch Friday of Philippines skies for 26 November 2010

Rosie of leavesnbloom commented in my last Skywatch Friday post she noticed  that we have lots of wonderful sunsets in this part of the world! Yes Rosie, we are getting lots of them, and not only sunsets but sunrises as well. As you will remember in that last Skywatch post there are sunrise frames too.

  Luna Miranda, who is also from this patch of earth, has been posting lots of beautiful photos from her building residences's rooftop. Maybe most of us living in high rises are very privileged to have these views. I sometimes go home early cutting off my office time just to be at the 5th floor for the sunsets. And i want to share some of those afternoons with you.  

Ordinary day view, zoomed out

before an impending rain, and clouds are still a bit far

above is just an ordinary sunset with dramatic clouds, while the following three (3) are real ordinary days and ordinary view of sunset from my window at the 5th floor

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Skywatch Friday: November 5, 2010

This progression of scenes happened only in a

matter of less than 10 minutes

Taken while at the Malimatoc Beach, Mabini, Batangas, Philippines

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Skywatch Friday: October 22, 2010

Note:  Please look at the lonely white cow at the lowest right side of the last photo, watching the sunset! Do you know if cows really love sunsets?

I would love to dedicate this post to my friend Edna, for her birthday at the end of this month.

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