Sun after a storm/SWF

The sun shines through the clouds after the storm.

Manila Bay

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain. ~ Vivian Greene 

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.  ~ Bruce Barton

Linking to Sky-Watch Friday

Twilight After Gorio

Twilight at Manila Bay yesterday, a day after tropical storm "Gorio" (international name:  Rumbia) left the Philippines.   Forecasters predicted typhoon Gorio would hit Metro Manila early Sunday, but it veered away  towards Batangas province then blew away towards the West Philippine Sea.  But it did leave thousands of commuters stranded after ferries cancelled their trips.

Dark clouds trailed behind typhoon Gorio, a humid day punctuated by light rains, the sea was calm and these fishermen were back at sea.  Monday ended with a mellow sunset.

Location:  SM By The Bay, Pasay City.

Linking to Our World Tuesday

Watery World-Wednesday

Ships at sunset/Skywatch Friday

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.

It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.

And it is the one most accurate symbol of you.

Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates for being.

For, at last you know---you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.

~ Vera Nazarian

Ships and a mellow sunset 

 Manila Bay, June 12, 2013

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True-blue/Skywatch Friday

Even 

after 

all this time

the Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look

what happens

with a love like that,

it lights the whole sky.

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Blue hour @ Manila Bay/Sky-watch Friday

There is a brief period of twilight of which I am especially fond, little more than a moment, when I see what seems to be color without light, followed by another brief period of light without color.  The earlier period, like a dawn of night, calls up such sights that at all other times are hidden, wistful half-formless presences neither of day nor night, that draw up with them similar presences in the mind. ~ Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living

The blue hour--my favorite time of day.

Manila Bay

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Sunset today/Sky-watch Friday

Sunset skies this afternoon, May 9th, at Manila Bay

There is a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free.  Don't miss so many of them. 

~ Jo Walton

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Hole in the sky/Skywatch Friday

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Pink/Watery World Wednesday

Blushing Sky

@ Manila Bay

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Go for it!

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S. Eliot

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Sunset cruise/Watery World Wednesday

Sunset cruise at Manila Bay

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Lovers @ Sunset/Sky-Watch Friday

 A romantic moment at sunset.
The cheapest way to celebrate Valentine's Day.:p

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” 
~ Lao Tzu

 Happy Valentine's Day!

 

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Sundown/SWF

"We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things."  ~ Desmond Tutu

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Glow/Sky-Watch

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

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Wonder/Sky-Watch

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us. ~ Carl Safina

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.~ Barbara Kingsolver

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Blends of colors/Sky-Watch

“The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.” ~ John Constable

Take a moment as though it were a canvas. Begin to paint on it creative blends of colors. In every moment we can find and live our purpose.

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Manila Bay sunset/SWF

Sunset sky at Manila Bay on Thursday, October 18th.

Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that was more appropriate. From her lap springs everything that possesses life and motion, everything that flourishes, fades, and has its fated day, and she tirelessly provides material for the countless varied bodies that are created --- and then abandoned --- by the life force in its unending, hidden progress through nature. ~ Jonas Hallgrimsson

While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Linking to Sky-Watch Friday

Ships/Water World-Wednesday

Ships at Manila Bay

Played with textures and overlays

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
memories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreams
play when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?” ― Nathan Reese Maher

straight out of the camera

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