In the eyes of a child

When I went to a study location of my officemate, I had this encounter with children that really amused me. Though the place was not remotely far from the center, only about 7 km from the center proper of the municipality, the environment though seemed tell the other way. What amused me much was the smile and the looks of the children as they saw me. It was as it they have seen a celebrity (lol). They were hiding to a post and giggling watching me while I was helping my officemates collect the yield data. When I looked at them, especially the two girls will run away laughing mightily as they can, looking for farther structure they could hide. When they saw one, they would peek and look again to my direction and kept on giggling.

Remembering the camera inside my bag, I got it and pointed to them, the more that they run away and giggled. But when a little boy came near me and I took his picture, they slowly left their hiding place and came near me and loved the camera.

In the eyes of a child, life is so simple, and only fun. How I wish to be a child again.

Hiding behind a structure and peeping at me

Coming out and walked straight to me, they somewhat loved my camera

the pose

playing, but the girl kept her eyes on the camera

new things in life

While on a working trip on a farm site of a project, I strayed away from our group and look for something weird and unusual. And these were what Ive seen:

This tree is surprisingly quite beautiful at closer look. Afar, it has nothing impressive of this tree. It looks like any other ordinary tree. But when I observed the fruit along the twigs, it amazed me. I passed this tree twice and only I noticed this when I was leaving the area and planned to go back to the group to help collect some data. It was like coffee plant bearing fruits profusely. In one side, it looks like “bignay”. When I asked a local if this is “bignay”, he said it was not.

from afar, nothing special of this tree

like coffee beans on branch

up close

Another plant I observed was this green fruit bearing tree. It is also an ordinary looking tree but it also has a beautiful green fruits. What caught my attention when I zoomed in my point and shoot camera, it has some fruits that cracked open. I believed it is its propagation mechanism to spread its seeds for another plant of its kind will grow. But looking around, there was no other same plant that grows near the tree.

cracker tree(?), green rubber seed?

While taking a shot to this tree, something white thing leaped up. When I checked what it was, this cute white tree frog, I guess, seemed wanting to be featured also. Definitely, it gets what it wants.

this was taken 5 inches away, apparently it loves the camera

In the area, and like other marshy part of the province, the “lumbia” is quite common. But it was not always that I can see that most of the plants bear fruit. It was the reason that I strayed from the group because of this lumbia. And what supposedly only a lumbia shoot gave was a more fascinating discovery on this part of the farm.

With this I affirmed, one cliché that sometimes we put too much passion on the biggest dreams and priorities in life that we fail to love the smallest pleasure from simple things. We search so much for the right choices, for the right paths to walk through, for the right time and for the right reasons. But life is not about searching for the things that can be found. It is about letting the unexpected happen and finding things you never searched for...