Car Trip to Sta. Catalina

Coming back from a wedding at a beach resort in Sta. Catalina one Saturday, we passed by this group of men planting rice in Giligaon, Siaton. Made Jong stop the car and took this photo from the passenger seat out thru the window on the driver's side. I know, I know, I could use a higher-powered camera, but the kids understood this photo, nevertheless.

Couldn't even do justice to this beautiful little tree-sheltered stream that's right beside the road. Part of the reason was the weather was drizzly and grey and yet it was hot. As a result, everything looked like you were seeing them through a haze, like a clouded up bathroom mirror or when the neighbors decide to build smoky bonfires "to drive the dengue mosquitoes away".

The deserted Siaton town center on a drizzly Saturday afternoon, through the wind shield. And that's the ubiquitous Ceres bus again. There's no getting away from these yellow "submarines"; they're everywhere. A blessing, really, since one comes by maybe every 15 minutes in either direction.