Tie a _____ Ribbon …
As far as I can remember, the Tony Orlando song goes: “Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree, it’s been three long years, do you still want me … ”
And the song goes on but each time the ribbon is mentioned the color is YELLOW.
YELLOW.
So to all you other ribbon tie-ers out there, tsk tsk.
August 21
I can’t think of a better recipient of holiday gifts than these two kids, and kids like them who spend most of the time on the streets. This picture was taken last August 21, by the side of the Quezon Bridge on the Plaza Miranda side. Maybe their parents have been paid to setup these flags and passed the task on to them. Maybe they were hired by whatever political party this was.
If only every flaglet they stuck on the ground would raise their hopes for a better future…
Once in a well, lifetime
The flower you see below is on a cactus plant on our neighbor’s house across the street. In all of the five years we have lived here since coming back from Mindanao, we had never seen it bloom till yesterday. Today it had already wilted.
It sort of reminds me of things ephemeral, like chocolates from abroad that come in big shipping boxes from a relative far away. You eat up all the chocolate and remember the taste for weeks on end.
I remember this flower, and I thank my camera I was there to shoot it before it died.
Looking for the Kwento
Just recently I blogged about joining PhotoWorldCup 2008 on Ning.com. One of the rules on PWC is to upload just one photo a day per member. This saves space and bandwidth on the server, as opposed to members being able to upload an unlimited number of photos in one day — uploading just one forces a user to choose his best photo for the day.
I received a comment on the first photo I uploaded, the one I call A walk in the clouds, reproduced here in smaller resolution.
Bryan Lee had commented: “simple yet it tells a lot of stories…hmmm, what would be the ending?”
And I realized that is the purpose of taking pictures. To look for the story and to tell it at the same time. And to succeed in doing so will be worth a thousand words.
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