DAILY PHOTO: Man Made Forest of Bohol

Taken in December of 2017 on Bohol

This stand of trees covers a couple of kilometers of roadway in thick mahogany forest. It’s noticeable in that it seems out-of-place, and because the trees are of preternaturally uniform size. Apparently, the natural growth was destroyed and they planted the mahogany trees for something new. The forest is in the area of the villages of Bilar and Loboc on Bohol Island along the drive to one of the Tarsier sanctuaries and the Chocolate Hills.

 

There were lots of these crawlers present.

DAILY PHOTO: Low Tide at Panagsama Beach

Taken in December at Panagsama Beach near Moalboal

DAILY PHOTO: Chocolate Hills of Bohol

Taken in December of 2017 on Bohol Island

 

It wasn’t dry enough to see them in their full chocolatey brown glory, but these conical limestone hills are pretty wild nevertheless.

DAILY PHOTO: Siquijor Sunset

Taken in December of 2017 on Siquijor in the Philippines

DAILY PHOTO: Hauling Sticks

Taken near Lapah in the Great Himalayan National Park in Himachal Pradesh in June of 2015

DAILY PHOTO: Young Tusker in the Marsh

Taken in May of 2017 at Amboseli National Park in Kenya

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Streams

Taken in June of 2015 in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Lakes

Taken in August of 2016 in Kashmir

DAILY PHOTO: Snowcaps of Salkantay

Taken in July of 2010 in the Peruvian Andes

 

POEM: Bird’s Life Haiku





hawk’s spiral swoop
snatches a sack skyward
morsels spilling



crow tugs rat carcass
like a combat comrade
cursing pal’s flab



Maribu meeting
looks formal: coat and tie
civil as Congress