Before I walked into the center of the Fuente Osmena Circle park the other evening, I walked around the park perimeter...

Sinulog Festival parades #2: we loved the colors and pageantry, but the participants worked hard because of the many pauses and a long day. Still, there were many smiles and good cheer. Even some of the Santo Nino statues of the infant Jesus looked tired...

We've gone to two of this year's Sinulog parades so far: wonderful costumes, amazing colors, drums, bugles, and two young men really getting into character :)

National Museum of the Philippines #2 - I liked the lighting and window reflections througout the exhibits. The first photo shows one of the many artifacts from the last several centuries. These were found in a sunken Spanish galleon? I got sidetracked by my own reflections at one point.

mountain countryside photos #2 - before I watched clouds move through the valleys, I wandered through the gardens of AO Park and took some photos of the many plants...

We visited the new National Museum of the Philippines here in Cebu yesterday. There are collections of Filipino fine arts, anthropology, and archaeology. They also had displays of the Philippines botany, zoology, and geology roots. The museum's lighting and display layouts caught my interest right away, especially the mostly natural window lighting in many of the rooms. My favorites were some hanging painted screens in one of the large rooms.

I spent some time just watching the shadows of clouds move through the valleys...

We got up into the "countryside" yesterday...cooler temperatures and lush greens

I'm cold... and I do not want my picture taken!

a walk through the neighborhood yesterday, with two churches, a motorcycle, one house, plenty of wires, and my shadow...

in my FB Memories folder this morning: frozen ice images from January walks over the years...the overnight forecast for Seattle was 30 F. That's 1.111 C