My daughter Monica took a lot of pictures of me at the farm. So now I have enough pictures to do one of those “A Day in the Life Of” features! Thanks for the pictures Mon! Continue reading “A Day in My Life 2014 Edition”
Category: nature
Good Morning, Birds!
Mornings at the farm start very early. And very noisily. No, we don’t wake up to the ti-tilaok (that’s cock-a-doodle-doo in Pilipino) of a rooster. We wake up to a dawn chorus! Wild birds sing with extra gusto and energy first thing in the morning. Birders call this phenomenon a dawn chorus. Continue reading “Good Morning, Birds!”
If Only They Were All Butterflies. But No, They’re Flies.
A plague of flies! Right after Typhoon Glenda, we noticed a LOT of flies at the farm. We would be eating in the kitchen and there would be 10 flies on the window screen trying to get inside. Eww. Continue reading “If Only They Were All Butterflies. But No, They’re Flies.”
Dear Walis, It’s Over.
Even great love affairs end. Yes, I drew a whole comic strip about you last year and waxed rhapsodic about your graceful construction, hand-crafted from dried Tiger Grass stalks. Continue reading “Dear Walis, It’s Over.”
Tonji and Sylvia's Wildlife Refuge 