Devotees crowded the Parish of Virgen dela Regla
in Opon, Mactan Island, Cebu on November 21 Thursday during its Feast. There could have been more crowd if the feast falls on a weekend, but still the number of people was remarkable.
Right outside the Parish were businesses benefitting from the overflowing crowds.
It was such a great sight to behold when people still celebrated the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary no matter how busy they were. Abundant blessings are sure to come! Happy Fiesta Virgen dela Regla!
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Cebu City's Agri-Bonanza 2019 is brought to you by the Cebu City Government
featuring produce from farmers of upland barangays. This is the 10th annual event held at the Plaza Sugbo, a park in between the Cebu City Hall and the Magellan's Cross right outside the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño.
This annual event recognizes the role of farmers in the city's economy
and showcasing their produce so that hotels and restaurants may source from them. The event happens from November 20-22, 2019. Visit when you have time.
If you happen to visit Virgen dela Regla Parish in Opon, Mactan Island, Cebu,
you can't miss this large Kalachuchi or Plumeria tree right beside the church. It's being taken care of because of its beauty and the shade it provides to everyone.
It's big and old and it doesn't stand straight up but growing crooked
and there's some wall on the floor that supports because it may topple down with its massive weight. It's a great plant to behold especially when its flowers are blooming all over.
Old trees are a treasure to the community and the town or city they've grown.
They're part of history and can be preserved for generations to come. Only few of them are left in the city because development has removed them. This very old Narra Tree can be found at the Opon Plaza, a garden plaza right outside Nuestra Señora Virgen Dela Regla in Lapu-lapu City in Mactan Island, Cebu.
Planted by Mariano S. Dimataga or Dodong Oping
when he became mayor of Opong in 1938. Trees like this one are safe from road widening projects being inside a plaza. But I noticed that there are vines going up some branches and choking the leaves. Somebody has to remove the vines or will kill off the branches. Anyways, big, old trees are natural treasures which bear witnesses to the history of the place for as long as they have grown. Read more below.
Wasps are insects that look like bees or ants but they are neither of the two.
I happened to watch a potter wasp in the house bringing a ball of wet mud and was about to build its nest on the wall.
It's so called potter wasp because of the pot-shaped nest it builds from wet mud.
Its young or larva which is yellow-green in color is delivered inside the pot and fed with some insect right before sealing off the nest entrance.
These are termite excrement or droppings and they are called frass.
When you see a heap of these on the floor or anywhere else in the house, you know that you're infested with drywood termites, those wood-eating insects that are often called the "silent destroyer" because they secretly thrive in furnitures and walls without seeing immediate signs of damage until weeks or months later.
Although there are many types of termites,
the pellets below are from drywood termites. When termites make its home inside walls or anywhere around the house, they excrete these pellets after consuming wood and push them out of their holes that's why you see countless of these on the floor. Each is about a millimeter in length with rounded corners. Even though one is fascinated by these pellets that look like sand, they already show the extensive damage caused.
Earthworms are amazing creatures because they have the ability to remain alive
for many, many years even underneath the tiles in concrete used to form as foundation for the sink. What they have is Suspended Animation, the temporary (short or long term) slowing/stopping of biological functions so physiological capabilities are preserved.
These earthworms were nowhere there until the tiles cracked and water seeped in.
After few weeks or months, they began to emerge alive and well. But many of them die after few minutes of exposure. Still, suspended animation is a great gift from God to living things and unbelievable to witness. |
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