The farmer is king, and the fields are his dominion. (But the capitalist market is overlord of all.)
Photo by I.R. Arenas
Category: Rural
Post 492
You know everything is well when you still see a flock of birds doing what Nature designed for them to do. And perhaps humans can learn from the birds – that sometimes being carefree is what we need to be.
Photo by I.R. Arenas
Post 491
The question that runs in one’s mind is “How did it get there?” Surely there are many answers. Yet the sight of nature taking over the proud machines of human invention is assuring enough that the organic always have its way of conquering the lifeless.
Photo by I.R. Arenas
Post 489
It seems unlikely that one can purchase shoes and shirts along a highway, not in a mall nor in shopping centre. But business is thriving even in a farming town.
Photo by I.R. Arenas
Post 487
A brief conversation ensues between a bicycle and a motorcycle rider as they meet on a road almost hidden by trees, grass, and rice paddies.
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Post 486
Most of the times, the unorthodox way of things is more fun, as what these passengers experience hanging precariously at the stern of a jeepney.
Photo by I.R. Arenas
Post 485
The barbershop is an interesting locale. Many things happen at the same time: waiting customers, a diligent barber, a patient kid surveying everything reflected in the mirror, and a bored mother.
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Post 484
What more rurality can you ask in a scene of lifeful green rice paddies and a guarding dog?
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Post 482
This scene is no more. Livelihood and tourism brought people to reside in the Taal volcano island, considered a permanent danger zone. Now it is unlikely that people can remain there in many years to follow.
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Post 480
This bus conductor never hands out paper tickets but only lists fare payment on a folded sheet of paper. Such display of honesty is in the psyche of the Cordilleran people.
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Post 478
Strings of clothes by the roadside make provincial life charming such as this scene.
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Post 450
Living at a time of online and virtual games, these kids opt playing outdoors with all the dirt of the ground, using marble balls. Such a game dates back to thousands of years. Marbles will probably stay a thousand more.
Photo by I.R. Arenas
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