Outside My Home

October 09, 2008 Smitten as I am with European sceneries and culture, I'm posting here pictures I took one rainy Saturday (Oct. 04, 2008) of the area outside my fifth floor window which with a bit of imagination I can feel that I am in some part of Europe, a place I have to go to before I exit from this earthly life ...

Stick-Plant Flowering

To mark the annual flowering, beginning September, of my 30-year-old stick plant ( I never quite learned the real name or the scientific name of this hardy and weird looking plant), I'm posting these pictures ... The blooms exudes a rather strong perfumy scent, like dama-de-noche ... I've noticed that it exudes the scent only at night. This plant was given to me by a budding artist friend from UP way back in the early seventies, before she migrated to Canada . The only reason I can think of why this plant survived life with me for the past 30 years is that it's extremely low-maintenance ... like me, I suppose ...

A Fine House --- with Two Cats in the Room

Introducing the two cats, literally and figuratively , in my life .... reminds me of a song which goes like ' Our house is a very fine house ..with two cats in the yard ..' Have to modify that a bit ...'with two cats in the room' ...Shhhh - we're not supposed to have pet cats, as condo living rules go .... I'll tell the story of Badong and Kiko (Salvatorre and Francesco in Italian, Dodon and Coucou, in French.. didn't I tell you, we're trying to live here a copy-cat Mediterranean lifestyle), when I have the time to write longer --- but for now , some pictures ...

Some Other Sunrises

October 02, 2008

A take from David Benoit's 'Some Other Sunset' --- one of my favorite tunes ... This page will start the series of pictures of the sunrise as seen from
my bedroom window from a 5th floor room , somewhere in Q.C.

Fascinating the uniqueness of every day, starting with how the sunrise is painted in the morning sky ... Magnificent is God's morning art , the play of colours and light which I'm pretty sure is never replicated ...

Should remind me that my daily routine , seemingly boring everyday life is not really ever the same... I only have to be aware of the hidden details that might even be surprising .... Really I don't have the right to be bored ...

October 03, 2008 --- I'm thinking I'm going to post a series of pics of the sunrise from my bedroom window the whole month of October 2008...
Below are the October 03, 2008 sunrise :





September Morns --- ( Thanks to a Neil Diamond song title...)