My Manila

"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road." ~Beatrice Wood (1893–1998), American artist a...

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." ~Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Sco...

Back in November 2013, my husband and I spent five days in Siem Reap , Cambodia with a couple of friends. We got home to news of a large ty...

When we were children, we would carefully pull out the fine filament in the middle of each floret to suck the santan 's sweet nectar.

Yet another flower which I have no name for has just bloomed in our garden. This time, I'm quite sure that it's not from the seeds ...

One of the common names of Colocasia plants is "elephant ears" because of the shape of their leaves. Some species look more like...

I don't know what this flower is, but it bloomed one day in our front yard and now, several bushes line the curbside. All I know is, th...

An itinerant fruit vendor on the sidewalk outside the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish church was selling green mangoes , sampaloc ( tamar...

The view which greeted me when I stepped out of our office building a little before 6:00pm yesterday, taken above the roads, parking lot an...

The house across ours has been empty for about half a year now. It was supposedly bought by a developer who was going to build row houses, ...

The designer of Basil used the naturally-occurring outcrop of adobe in its small lot—filling its crannies with plants and building a waterfa...

A flame tree blossom-covered sidewalk at the Ateneo de Manila University .

At Resurrection Furniture and Found Objects Gallery (see yesterday's post), reused and recycled objects are not only found in the piec...

The second floor landing of our office building got all dolled up with a lovely faux indoor garden for its blessing yesterday. This is my...

Since I'm absolutely awful with plant names, it's kind of useless asking me what these flowers are called. Each flower looks like a...

…on my favorite flower: white lilies.

Madagascar Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) grows in our garden all year round with absolutely no effort on our part. White is more com...

I like how some people grow plants on the branches of trees. The trees don't seem to suffer for the presence of their guests and the va...