Morning scene in the village of Santa Barbara

Photo shows two major products in Barangay Santa Barbara known also locally as Odikin — the hats perched on the little girl’s head for delivery to the village hat trader and the pili nuts being dried along the cemented village road. (July 12, 2014).

It is still rice planting season in Bulusan

I can’t get enough of the rice planting scenes in the countryside of Bulusan. Though it may look generic to many, to me it is a continuous shift of wonder every time I pass by the 30 plus km-long stretch of rice field patchworks lining the road to my hometown from the neighboring towns of Gubat and Barcelona.