Twin Portraits in Placidity

Crane at home on a branch felled by Hurricane Wilma a year prior. 
The branch had become a part of the landscape. 
 Flamingos come to feed on our lake abundant with fish. 

Flamingos, wild ducks and the renegade goose share the same space.

 
Flamingos in Flight

The Portal to My Kingdom

My Piece of Sky
 

The Twin Towers That Hurricane Wilma Could Not Topple Down
 

 The Crane at Home on a Dead Branch
 
Life grows in the most unexpected places

“ Swan Lake”

I am a believer in God.  He is not just a Being out there in the distant heavens, looking down on me.   He  constantly reaches out to me—in small ways, and once in a while, in  BIG ways impossible to ignore as illustrated in  this true story …
 
The Table Cloth

The brand new pastor and [...]

 
A child must know, in his heart of hearts—as I believe every parent—the significance of learning how to bike. As far as I know, it has always been a childhood rite of passage.
 
On the day my son Matthew just learned how to bike, I watched him propel himself, balance with ease, cruise along ever so confidently, faster than me, turn [...]

 
Years ago, it was just an ordinary cush pillow I bought at Walmart but ever since MatMat discovered its soft, cool snuggly-ness, Papa gave it a name, and MatMat drew it a face,– - “it” became a HE, and from then on became  a member of the family, beloved of MatMat, and his own “Blue [...]

He was delivered at my Tita Nilda’s house, by the local midwife, Mrs. Cordero. 
I remember standing in the doorway of the room where my mother lay in labor, baffled by the mystery of my baby brother’s birth.
Once born, Lola Tanciang took the liberty of naming him Alan—after an actor of a bygone era-Alan [...]