Road to Camp N

   So I met the same Canlubang herd (I'd like to think) again this past week... The same herd in my Venare post, and most likely the same herd outside Nuvali, on the road to Casile. 

    This time on the road behind (beside?) Elaro (which I am attracted to for its hills and trees), toward Camp N.

     It has been sunny and bright here, and by 4:30 pm cool and windy. Temp read 25 but it felt more like 20. Tonight the moon appeared, full, bright yet diffused.

Note the Egret

Note the peak up ahead...Palace in the Sky (People's Park) and Tagaytay Highlands

Full Moon, Narras Bloom, 36 degrees and Maybe...Hopefully, (a few minutes more)...RAIN

    When it is this HOT and HUMID, and one has a HEADACHE caused by dehydration...it is a struggle to do anything that involves movement.  I woke up to this perfume--it is rich and for some reason (maybe the Gap Guest House's jasminey or honeysuckl-ey air) reminds me of Chiang Mai, Thailand. It has not rained here in weeks; last weekend the forecast thunderstorms quickly reverted to the sunny 36 before Friday even came.



    In the beginning of this blog, I wrote about how the Narra blooms after a brief shower usually in the month of March.  Now, no rain, but just a very full moon, and voila, yellow flowers, heady scent.  I appreciate the scented air, because really...enter a shopping mall these days and you won't escape the air heavy with the scent of mmm....pawis (perspiration).

     So anyway, I need a horticulturist to confirm this.  It seems to me that flowers bloom when I water sporadically. That is, water it well an deep one day, and then the next maybe skip watering, even in the heat.  The sampaguita has sure proven this to be true. It does not want too much watering. And now it has presented us everyday with our daily dose. A fist full of flowers.  
     

Ay nasingit (oh! it got squeezed in)! These are flowers of the MORINGA OLEFEIRA (malunggay)
They emit fragrance too.

Finally, cool nights and a bright moon

The nights have been cooler all around, but the climate, I don't have to tell you, remains inconsistent.  Yesterday, though the sky was sunny, the air was windy cool, by 5pm it was what I would call "chilly", and by evening, my outdoor thermometer read 24 degrees Celsius. It actually felt a bit more like 22.

The moon is halfway on its way to fullness.  It was quite bright out, and for the first time in two years, I looked up again.  Really looked up.

The kid made me do it. I was looking down. Down to where the garbage can was, to toss the food trash in the nabubulok bin. 

Thank goodness for the wonder. She was looking up and urged me to look up at the fast moon too. The clouds were actually the ones floating---no--cruising really quickly past the silver moon.  After a minute or so, "mama please can we sit down and watch the moon go fast".  Bliss, 'no?