One of my hobbies is photography and I enjoy taking pictures of just about anything which catches my attention. I was at Hickam Harbor and I saw this plane just landed and moving towards the terminal. I took the picture while it is moving and I keep clicking the shutter until I have the plane just by the tip of the Diamond head in the background.
I think it’s quite a nice picture, I might consider making a painting out of it.
I wonder if anybody remembers I posted a cat in the garden about two months ago. Cats are uninvited guests but they seemed to be comfortable in my garden. I was surprised when I saw little kittens one day. She had three cute little kittens and I was only able to capture this one. I…
I have just harvested these turmeric rhizomes when I took this picture. I just love to have this valuable spice/herb in my garden. Not only the rhizomes are very healthy for you, the plant leaves are beautiful addition to a tropical garden and the flowers or inflorescence are also amazing. I don’t really know the…
“Halo-Halo” is the most popular dessert in the Philippines. If you have a sweet tooth, this is the dessert for you. I was in the Mall of Asia in Manila when I had one of this famous halo-halo. It’s so colorful and looks so delicious. Halo-halo means a mixture of things in Tagalog. It’s a…
Did you know that pineapples came from the family of bromeliads? No wonder the plant looks just like bromeliad except for the showy fruit we know as pineapple. It is called pineapple because it resembles pine cone. It was introduced by the Spaniards to the New World and now it is widely cultivated around the…
It was a nice day to walk and I decided to go Ford Island. I particularly like the long stretched road they have that used to be a runway for planes. I came across this tower that had been made famous in the movie “Pearl Harbor”, so majestic looking as a foreground to the clear…
Mangroves are very important in our ecosystem. Their roots are habitats of almost all species of fish and crustaceans. Oysters, barnacles and algae all make mangroves their home. Shrimps and lobsters also stay in the muddy bottoms of the mangrove forests. Mangroves have adapted to their harsh environment like low oxygen, salt intake and water…