Thursday Brownies | Spider

Brown is the color of my Thursday, but since I don't have that much brown pictures, I checked my vaults for this one:


I took this one while vacationing in La Union with my sister. We just got home from Urbiztondo Beach (watching the Surfing Break). Since our bathroom was near the back area of the house, critters can freely enter the windows and I was so surprised when I entered the bathroom and see this huge spider.

Surprised as I may be, I wasn't scared of it - in fact, instead of using the bathroom, I went to my room and get my camera to photograph it. :)) I like this kind of spiders - very still, and such a willing model. :) I actually took this with the camera's flash on and it didn't even move! When it comes to macro with flash, I miss my old p&s. My new one can't do such wonders.

*** Jenn ***

After the Rain

Third day of joining color-themed memes, and White is the color for Wednesdays! My share:

I was uploading June 2010 images on my Facebook (yeah, I am so way behind on the uploads - editing each picture while juggling work / home chores / personal time is eating so much time), and when I saw this, I knew I'd make it my first post for Wednesday Whites.

I took this while walking to the nearby market, just outside our neighborhood. To save money and to exercise, I decided to walk. The rain just passed, and the rain drops created embellishment to the flowers and leaves. At that time, I was also doing my Project 365 (my first attempt), and seeing a housefly on the white flower, I took out my cell phone to take a picture. Despite the gloomy weather, I was pretty impressed at how my cell phone was able to capture this image well.

*** Jenn ***

Datu Snoopy

I was cleaning the house this morning, and while wiping the Snoopy toys, I decided to take a picture of this particular toy.


This toy (along with the other 27 figurines) were something really memorable for the family, because we all went crazy scouting different McDonald's outlets just to buy their Happy Meals because we wanted to collect all 28 toys. It was a moment when we all could say we didn't want to eat their burger again because we had to eat a McDo burger multiple times a day, hahaha. But even if we were getting tired eating McDo burgers, we were happy when we were able to get the last batch of toys.

Of the 28 Snoopy figures wearing different national costumes, this is my favorite because this was the traditional Filipino costume. Well, not the typical costume I knew of, but this Snoopy is wearing the traditional "Datu" costume. People from the south part of the country wears this - if they are a Datu, of course.

*** Jenn ***

Critters in the Garden

I realized this weekend that there are photo memes devoted to colors... so while I am joining the usual memes I do for this blog, I am also going to join the color memes, simply because I think life is much better with a splash of color. :)

For Mondays, I noticed there were four color memes: one for Red, Black, Green, and Yellow. The Red one I will do on Tuesdays, so for this day I will do Yellow and Green.

Both images taken April last year while jogging around the neighborhood plaza. Near the Multi-Purpose Hall was a garden, and it was really a delight to see critters greeting "Good Morning" (of course, not literally). Living in a subdivision in the city, it's rare now for me to see these fascinating creatures, so it was such a blessing that I was carrying my camera with me as I jog. Well, I do bring either my camera or my cell phone whenever I go out, so I would be ready in taking pictures of things that captured my interest.

Happy new week, everyone!

*** Jenn ***

Fabulous Friday | Berry Berry

Last Tuesday, I went out the house to find subjects for another photo meme, and it led me find these berries.


Even if I took this stem off the plant just so I can have a subject to take pictures of, I did love the outcome of the shoot. I shared one image over my other photo blog (reasons why I have two is a long story to tell, haha), but there was this other image I took that I really liked and I decided to share it this week on Fabulous Friday.

Editing this, I used the Ancient Warm action and Kim Klassen's "The Wall" texture.

*** Jenn ***