There's nothing quite like being out on the water in the Tropics, on a beautiful day...

I didn't take a photo when he emerged from the pontoons of a neighboring bangka boat. I thought he was another snorkeler, but he had this box he was pushing along in front of him. He had paddled out from the nearby island, and he was making his way to all of the island hopping boats. He was the Ice Cream Man! Only in the Philippines!

"Tricycles" on Bohol Island, #1

9 years ago, ripples in a shady pond in Tukwila WA, and window reflections shadows in downtown Seattle

I'm not a people picture taker. I'm more comfortable taking photos of trees. Sometimes though, when I'm on a bus or in a taxi, I just hold my cell phone up to the window and Click away...

We visited the Cebu Taoist Temple yesterday, it being the Chinese New Year. I especially liked the meticulously painted dragons, and a few chickens, when I was able to navigate around all of the selfie picture takers. Oh well :)

En route to Mantayupan Falls in Barilli, we stpped at a small public beach outside of Moalboal...

Mantayupan Falls in Barilli Cebu #1, last week

I don't think about religious connotations that much when I'm taking photos in churches. Colors, lines, textures, etc are what interest me. The candles here, with their sort of Blah colors, were fascinating. I liked the flames still going on some of them, the drooping columns of candles that had shorter lives, and the tiny rivers of colored wax that flowed down to collect in the bottom trays. It's a bit of a leap, but the bottom trays reminded me of walking across some frozen-in-time lava flows of Hawaii's Kilauea volcanoe. I was with my brother Mike in the late 80s, and we were in Hawaii the day that the small town of Kalapana was cut off forever by the latest eruption. Kalapana was famous for it's black sand beaches.