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Asian Festival at Salinas Chinatown: Celebrating Chinese, Japanese, Filipino...
What warms this lola’s (grandmother’s) heart? Seeing the next generation Filipino-Americans continue to learn and dance the “tinikling” at the Philippine Community Center — one of the venues for...
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From waves to a single California poppy for the WPC: Forces of Nature
My entry for this week’s Weekly WordPress Photo Challenge theme, Forces of Nature… I took the above photograph after learning about “scale” in an earlier challenge. I think including the silhouette of...
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Broken little hearts at Dennis the Menace Playground
There is a popular playground in Monterey’s El Estero Park called Dennis the Menace Playground — named after the comic strip character. The creator of Dennis the Menace, cartoonist Hank Ketchum was a...
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Broken down barracks of Fort Ord in the Monterey Bay
Starting in 1917 and up to the 1990’s, almost 1,500,000 military troops trained at Fort Ord. It was a major army post, located here in the Monterey Bay, in California’s central coast. Although the...
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Holding hands on the way to a nature park
I love this picture of my first-born grandson, Jun, holding the hands of my sisters. It is very sweet, and I can’t believe how tiny he was, and how big he is now. We were on the way to a nature park…...
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Banig mat patterns plus a vivid parrot
The theme for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is vivid. The bright colors and striking patterns of Philippine banig (traditional sleeping mats) came to mind. Natural plant fibers are used for...
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Should you buy those seashells sold by the seashore? On beach walks,...
I love seashells. I am a collector of little shells and interesting objects I find while walking on the beach. While some beaches are known for their variety of seashells and for beach combing (like...
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Roy G. Biv – A post for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge are photos with colors in a rainbow. From Michelle W: “Roy G. Biv” is an acronym made of the first letters of the seven colors of the rainbow, to help you...
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My muse: The ocean and two little men
This week, the WordPress Photo Challenge theme is “Muse”. Sometimes, these photo challenges (like on refraction) are indeed, a challenge. But this is an easier one for me and I bet it will be for many...
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July 4th red, white and blue symbolism for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge
The theme for this week’s photo challenge is symbol. From host Jen H: Symbolism is uniquely human. We use symbols to represent intangible things like our beliefs and emotions, and to convert the...
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