Street Scenes in Munich

Lucky to see rainbow in Munich!

For: Learning much – but always more questions

For: Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 34, #MySundayPhoto – Bank Holiday Flowers, Art My Friends Gave Me (Sundays In My City)

Street Scenes in Kerala

day-to-day activities in Kerala – so colourful!

For: Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 33

Travel Theme: Indoors

orchestra

For: Travel theme: Indoors by Ailsa

Also for: someone turned on all the heat

Staying indoors on a rainy day!

Flowers in June

All lovely flowers in our garden!

For: FFF238 – FORGET-ME-NOT and Preparing for summer school midterm exams

Hydrangea

Hydrangea in the rain – still pretty!

For: FFF234 – ROSA ‘FRIESIA’ and Six Word Saturday

Sunday Tree

As the wind blows, trees sway!

For: Six Word Saturday

The Sound of the Trees
by Robert Frost

I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a listening air.
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As it grows wiser and older,
That now it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways to my shoulder
Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door.
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.

For: among the vines… , #MySundayPhoto – Forest Love and Soccer Mom (Sundays In My City)

The Katipuneras and Babaylans

Women who fought for our freedom.

For: Six Word Saturday

Tandang Sora was poor and her only means of livelihood came from the profits she got into selling. One day in August, the Supremo and his forces, tired and worn out, but determined to fight the enemy, came to the house of Tandang Sora, who immediately gave them a hundred sacks of rice from her storehouse, ten carabaos and tools they would need. She herself had become a revolucionario. Her help extended from giving provisions to the movement; she took care of the wounded and sick freedom fighters, not fearing that she would be caught by the Spanish authorities.

A Filipino Woman Married to a Spaniard – she overheard remarks about the Filipinos from her Spanish guests. She was in her room, went out and told them to stop. When they wouldn’t stop, she told her husband. He sided with his countrymen and ignored her request. She took a stick and sought to drive them away by beating them. They arrested her, but she was able to escape through the window of her house.

Trining took part in many battles – Dressed as a man with a wide brimmed hat, she went with rebels wherever they went. Some of the battles include the battle of San Ildefonso, the battle of San Rafael and the battle of Zaragoza. At the battle of Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija, the enemy shot her right foot. She fell unconscious, but when she recovered, she spoke with the Katipuneros with a smiling face. In the midst of shots and bolo flashes, she never showed the proverbial female weakness.

These are some of many brave Filipino Women – the Katipuneras or the Babaylans who took part in the Philippine Revolution of 1896.

For: Prompt for Today: In the Footsteps of the Suffragettes

B is for Ballad

Keeping me busy with all challenges!

For: Six Word Saturday

Ballad – A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. The story of a ballad can originate from a wide range of subject matter but most frequently deals with folk-lore or popular legends. They are written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with graphic simplicity and force. Most ballads are suitable for singing and, while sometimes varied in practice, are generally written in ballad meter, i.e., alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with the last words of the second and fourth lines rhyming.

The Ballad of Maria Makiling

REFRAIN:
There was a mysterious fairy
Guarding Mount Makiling
Her long hair floating in the air
Her singing echoing
I.
She appeared after a storm
Wandered around the woods
She mended wings of butterflies
Replaced nests on branches
II.
Storm vanished as she walked by
Roses and orchids bloomed
Birds built nests and chirped happily
Deer ran around again
(REFRAIN)
III.
She was known to have a good heart
Helped old women get wood
Left them with gold nuggets and coins
Cooked meals for hunters, too
IV.
Nowadays they saw less of her
Why? Excessive hunting
And people cut a lot of trees
Which disappointed her
(REFRAIN)

(c) ladyleemanila 2016

For: Day 2 and Day 2 and the Party is Just Starting to Heat Up! #AtoZChallenge

Skywatch Hong Kong

We had fun in Hong Kong!

concrete jungle

For: Six Word Spring Day, Skywatch Friday – 24 March 2016 Edition and on Good Friday…

They’re Up – Gin, Rex and Niki!

They have been hibernating since December and now, we woke them up for Spring. Welcome back, our tortoises!

For: Six Word Saturday and SEASONS – Almost-Spring by Jesh Stg