Bucao River is one of the rivers in my home province.
My other entry gives emphasis on the side of this bridge that brings me closer to our family home, where my parents and brother live.
Bucao River flows from Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that erupted in the early 1990s after being dormant for almost 500 years. Its ash fall reach other South East Asian countries.
Anyway…
When we went home last Sunday to celebrate my father’s birthday, I asked my husband to stop so that I could take photos of the river and of the bridge on the other side.
The bridge in the foreground is newer because the bridge before that was destroyed by lahar flow.
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Tags: bridge, Bucao River, nature photo, Philippines, river, Zambales
One of the few songs that I love to listen to is the song “The Water is Wide/Deep River” as sung by Barbara Streisand. Click here to listen to her sing. The song has a relation to my entry, in terms of its lyrics, and NOT its interpretation.
Below is a photo of a river whose bed rose because of the sand deposits from the lahar flows as aftermath of the Mount Pinatubo eruption which happened in the early 1990s, after being dormant for 500 years.
Click here to read about its effect.
The Macolcol River was not a wide river before the volcanic eruption but it became so due to the forces of nature that men can not stop. The water has stopped flowing too. To think this river suffered only minor damage compared to other river system just shows how nature is really a force to reckon with.
Pardon the photo quality because we were in transit when I took a snapshot while on the new and taller bridge crossing the river:
The river is not flowing anymore, except maybe during typhoon season. It looks like a wide expanse of white desert with pine trees on either side and the mountains as its backdrop.
I wonder if Pomegranate trees will survive here?
The water should flow towards the sea, though I have not seen that happen in a long time.
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Tags: nature photo, Philippines, Photo Hunter, river, Zambales
Ants are social insects that live in colonies that has a hierarchy of positions and duties.
Ants are very industrious insects. They labor when the sun starts to rise and continue their work until the sun goes down.They get all the food they can get for the colony and stuck these for the rainy days.
Ants know how to adapt to situations like when a block to their foraging ways happens, they try to find new routes to overcome the block. Crushed ants emit a scent that will make other ants scamper for safety.
They foster cooperation among themselves in foraging for food and fighting their enemies.
Humans can learn a lot from observing ants, starting with being industrious and saving for the rainy days.
Tags: ants, industrious, NaBloPoMo, nature photo
Every Saturday, participants post photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday is BLUE.
Nature has so many colors to offer and BLUE is a prominent color, except of course on rainy days. It is considered as a “cool” color because one is reminded about water, whether its the sea, the ocean or water in a pool.
Here is another photo of the place and below is my Blue in Nature photo of a part of the South China here in the Philippines:
Click here to read about South China Sea.
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Tags: beach, nature photo, Philippines, sea, South China Sea
SAD. This is Photo Hunt’s theme for today. I have written a long post about what makes me sad (and angry) here.
I will just post a simple photo and a few lines from Karen Carpenter’s song, Rainy Days and Mondays. Listen to her sing here.
I don’t know why but this photo makes me sad. It feels like…what does it feel like to you?
“No need to talk it out, we know what its all about. Hanging around, nothing to do but frown, rainy days and Mondays always let me down.”
What makes you sad?
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Tags: nature photo, rainy days
